ice

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Water in frozen (solid) form.

   “If thou doſt marry, Ile giue thee / This plague to thy dowry: / Be thou as chaſte as yce, as pure as ſnowe, / Thou ſhalt not ſcape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.”

   “1882, Popular Science Monthly (volume 20), "The Freezing of a Salt Lake" It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.”

   “Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.”

2. (uncountable, usually)Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
3. (uncountable, usually)Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.

   “Above the core is the lower-density liquid mantle composed of ice materials under high pressure and temperature. This massive liquid layer would not be separated into layers of traditional ice compounds, but mixtures of radically different compounds originally consisting of water, carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia […] Since the mass of the planet is dominated by the liquid mantle that itself consists of heated ices under pressure, both Uranus and Neptune are classified as giant ice planets.”

   “Neptune has one major moon: Triton, which is comparable in size to the Jovian moon Europa and at an average density of 2.061 g/cm³ widely understood to be covered by several hundred km of frozen or liquid ice.”

4. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Something having an extreme coldness of manner.

   “a heart of ice”

   “Her eyes flash with anger, her voice ice. "You afraid of the law? You haven't changed. I want you out of my house now."”

5. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.

   “The dialogues—or "raps"—usually take place on a monthly or bi-monthly basis and aim at fostering contacts hand at breaking through stereotypical notions held by both sides. "There's no question that there's ice to begin with," said Lance Bradley, who conducts the raps for Chelsea's Tenth Precinct.”

   “break the ice”

6. (uncountable, usually)The area where a game of ice hockey is played.

   “2006, CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002, The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice. They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.”

7. (dialectal, uncountable, usually)Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").

   “Well weddings, they were just the usual ... my big brother was married in the Masonic and the Co-operative done the party. Steak pie and tatties, and all that sort of stuff. The wee square Albert cake with ice on it, fruit cake. Then the wee dance after that. There was no drinking at oor wedding!”

8. (countable, uncountable, usually)A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
9. (UK, countable, dated, uncountable, usually)An ice cream.
10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable, usually)An individual piece of ice.
11. (slang, uncountable, usually)Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
12. (slang, uncountable, usually)An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
13. (slang, uncountable, usually)Money paid as a bribe.

    “Theater operators, theater party agents, playwrights, and others who have ready access to tickets may get in on the “ice” and sometimes the producer is in on it too.”

    “This “ice” is bribe money paid to public officials to purchase protection for illegal activities. […] Just consider the “ice” money available to the men involved in the examples just cited.”

14. (slang, uncountable, usually)The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs, including methamphetamine.

    “Near-synonym: crystal meth”

    “There were times when she could tell the Washingtons were overwhelmed by Jahlil's difficult ways, and one time Jessie even had the nerve to ask Carmiesha if she had smoked anything like crack or ice while she was pregnant with him.”

15. (slang, uncountable, usually)One or more diamonds.

    “But you can't give cred to anything dude says / Same dude to give you ice and you owe him some head”

    “Ice on the wrist with the ice in the chains.”

    “[She had] eaten a dinner at better than a hundred dollars a bite and she had enough ice on her ring finger to sink the Titanic. Maybe she really didn't have any morals. But she had a chance. And she was taking it.”

    “As she raised her left hand to get the crust out of her eye, she was blinded by the ice on her ring finger. Two bands filled with diamonds sat under and on top of her five-carat princess-cut engagement ring. Instantly, memories of her wedding day flooded her mind.”

16. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of internal combustion engine.

    ““ICE-ing is EV owner-speak for when an internal combustion engine (ICE) car blocks or parks in a charging point space. On EV internet forums, stories of drivers being ICEd abound. But rather than scuffles breaking out, if stories are to be believed, British EV drivers resort to leaving notes and icy stares when the offending ICE driver returns.”

    ““The ICE tail is now fatter and longer than anybody ever thought it was going to be,” GM's chief financial officer Paul Jacobson said at a recent conference, even as the company continued to invest in new EVs. […] Ford last year posted a $5bn operative loss on its EV business but made $5.3bn from its ICE division.”

17. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of internal compiler error.
18. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of in-circuit emulator/emulation.
19. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of in-car entertainment.
20. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, mnemonic, uncountable)Acronym of ice, compress, elevation (first-aid).
21. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of intercontinental exchange.

    “But ICE says futures trading in a variety of carbon-linked financial instruments -- where the bulk of trading activity occurs -- would continue apace. That includes trading in futures and options contracts for EUAs and the carbon offsets credits issued by U.N. organizations, the Certified Emission Reduction futures and options and Emission Reduction Unit futures.”

22. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of iridocorneal endothelial syndrome.

verb

1. (intransitive)To become ice; to freeze.
2. (transitive)To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.

   “To treat runner's knee, you need to rest from running or any other high-impact activity, ice the knee, and strengthen the quadriceps through weight training.”

3. (transitive)To make icy; to freeze.

   “The bridge ices before the road.”

4. (transitive)To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
5. (transitive)To put out a team for a match.

   “Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season”

6. (transitive)To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

   “If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.”

7. (slang, transitive)To murder.

   “Not long afterwards Wolf rings him up. 'I want you to ice someone for £15,000, he says. "No one you know."”

8. (slang, transitive)To defeat decisively.

   “Despite his vulnerabilities, Clinton managed to ice Dole in his 1996 reelection campaign for President.”

9. (slang)To occupy a reserved electric car parking space (especially one equipped with a charger) with a traditional car equipped with an internal combustion engine.

   ““We do get charge rage if someone ICEs your bay. And people don’t like it if someone parks a Tesla to charge for two hours. When your car has finished charging, our message is: move it.” ICE-ing is EV owner-speak for when an internal combustion engine (ICE) car blocks or parks in a charging point space. On EV internet forums, stories of drivers being ICEd abound.”

   “Clearer signs for electric vehicle charge points are needed to prevent drivers of petrol and diesel cars blocking access, the government has been told. […] It was claimed that the blocking of charge points by internal combustion engine cars — known as spaces being “iced” out — was a serious problem.”

10. (neologism, slang, transitive, uncommon)To apprehend or deport by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
11. (neologism, slang, transitive, uncommon)To kill (in reference to and hypothetically by Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Iceland.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Institution of Civil Engineers.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of International Cultural Exchange.
4. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“law-enforcement agency responsible for immigration and customs matters of the United States Federal government”).

   “Mr. Schlossberg’s rant angered activists for immigrant rights, who said it reinforced stereotypes that Spanish speakers are not citizens. And they worried that it perpetuated fear within immigrant communities of ICE’s aggressive tactics to deport those who are undocumented.”

   “ICE agents were joined Sunday by officials from multiple Justice Department agencies as they targeted what they said are public safety and national security threats.”

5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Intercity-Express (“German high speed train”).
6. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
7. (alt-of, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of ICE.

   “David Huerta, president of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW, was serving as a community observer during an Ice raid in Los Angeles, and was arrested by federal agents over allegations of interfering.”

8. (US, countable, often, uncountable, with-definite-article)Antarctica.

   “Over three weeks in 2019, Kaefer spent time at three English-speaking Antarctic stations observing and gathering data from workers based on what the US station refers to as “The Ice”, or the British call the “South”.”

phrase

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of in case of emergency, used in mobile phones followed by the number to call if the phone’s owner is injured.

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of isolated, confined, extreme.

   “Antarctica, like outer-space, is known as an ICE environment – isolated, confined and extreme – meaning unlike other isolated communities, the rate of change for its vocabulary can be slower.”