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Noun: ice  Is
  1. Water frozen in the solid state
    "Americans like ice in their drinks";
    - water ice
     
  2. The frozen part of a body of water
     
  3. Diamonds
    "look at the ice on that dame!";
    - sparkler
     
  4. A flavoured sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
    - frosting, icing
     
  5. A frozen dessert with fruit flavouring (especially one containing no milk)
    - frappé
     
  6. [informal] An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
    - methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth [informal], deoxyephedrine, chalk [informal], crank [informal], glass [informal], shabu [Asia, informal], trash [informal], gak [informal], crystal meth
     
  7. A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
    "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice";
    - ice rink, ice-skating rink
Verb: ice  Is
  1. (cooking) decorate with frosting
    "ice a cake";
    - frost [N. Amer]
     
  2. Cause to become ice or icy
    "an iced summer drink"
     
  3. Put ice on or put on ice
    "Ice your sprained limbs"
Noun: ICE
  1. A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine
    - internal-combustion engine
     
  2. Someone's emergency contact number, esp. as stored on a mobile phone (abbr. for In Case of Emergency)

Derived forms: icing, iced, ices

Type of: amphetamine, article, chill, controlled substance, cool, cool down, cover, crystal, diamond, freeze, frozen dessert, heat engine, object, pep pill [informal], physical object, rink, skating rink, speed [informal], topping, upper [informal]

Part of: automotive vehicle, glacier, ice cube, motor vehicle, motorboat, powerboat

Encyclopedia: Ice, Kentucky

ICE, the drug of power