ice

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Water in frozen (solid) form.
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.
4. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
5. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.
6. (uncountable, usually) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
7. (dialectal, uncountable, usually) Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
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.
14. (slang, uncountable, usually) The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
15. (slang, uncountable, usually) One or more diamonds.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
2. (transitive) To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.
3. (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
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.
6. (transitive) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
7. (slang, transitive) To murder.
8. (slang, transitive) To defeat decisively.

Synonyms

frost

snow

❄️

icicle

freeze

ice cream

🍨

cold

🥶

glass

meth

hail

methamphetamine

glaze

trash

crank

water ice

chicken feed

Methedrine

ice cube

🧊

deoxyephedrine

ice-skating rink

methamphetamine hydrochloride

shabu

ice rink

icicles

icing

frappe

freezing

refrigerate

frosting

congeal

glacial

chalk

sparkler

🎇

rotten ice

Tina

icecream

🍦

adamant

bunk

chilly

coat

🧥

cool down

crib

crystal

curdle

diamond

enrobe

floe

frigid

gelid

glacier

hailstones

Translations

glace

🧊

hielo

🧊

Eis

🧊

ghiaccio

ijs

🧊

gelo

🧊

πάγος

gel

🧊

buz

🧊

glacies

🧊

ثلج

❄️

glacer

gelo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/aɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: is

Inherited from Old English: īs

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Íes

Cognate with Western Frisian: iis

Cognate with Dutch: ijs

Cognate with German: Eis

Cognate with Lithuanian: ynis

Cognate with Russian: и́ней

Cognate with Ossetic: их

Cognate with Persian: یخ

Cognate with Northern Kurdish: qeş

In summary

From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”).
Cognates
See also Saterland Frisian Íes, West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish is; also Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ (yax), Northern Kurdish qeş. Superseded non-native Middle English glace (“ice”), borrowed from Old French glace (“ice”).

Sentences

Why does the ice cream truck keep playing such a sad song “ send in the clowns”?

He has an obsession with ice hockey and pizza .

People write messages on the dune with ice plant .

Sky Rink has the only year-round ice skating rinks in Manhattan .