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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ice
    n 1: water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in
         their drinks" [syn: ice, water ice]
    2: the frozen part of a body of water
    3: diamonds; "look at the ice on that dame!" [syn: ice,
       sparkler]
    4: a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
       [syn: frosting, icing, ice]
    5: a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one
       containing no milk) [syn: ice, frappe]
    6: 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 [syn:
       methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride,
       Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken
       feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash]
    7: 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 [syn: internal-
       combustion engine, ICE]
    8: a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating;
       "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice" [syn:
       ice rink, ice-skating rink, ice]
    v 1: decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: frost,
         ice]
    2: cause to become ice or icy; "an iced summer drink"
    3: put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [imac]s; aksin to D.
   ijs, G. eis, OHG. [imac]s, Icel. [imac]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis,
   and perh. to E. iron.]
   1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state
      by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent
      colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal.
      Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C.
      being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
         melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
         properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
         it.
         [1913 Webster]

   2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
      artificially frozen.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
      ice.
      [1913 Webster]

   Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
      other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
      is thus attached or anchored to the ground.

   Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
      extensive fields which drift out to sea.

   Ground ice, anchor ice.

   Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
      Glacial.

   Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
      field of ice. --Kane.

   Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
      horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
      yet in sight.

   Ice boat.
      (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
          ice by sails; an ice yacht.
      (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
          

   Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in
      which things are kept cool by means of ice; a
      refrigerator.

   Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
      --Shak.

   Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
      sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

   Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.

   Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to
      an ice field, but smaller.

   Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.

   Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
      

   Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice
      artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
      through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
      rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

   Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).

   Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.

   Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
      reproducing; papier glac['e].

   Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of
      the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.

   Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
      pieces.

   Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
      course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
      also ice master.

   Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.

   Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ice \ice\ ([imac]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. iced ([imac]st); p.
   pr. & vb. n. icing ([imac]"s[i^]ng).]
   1. To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something
      resembling ice.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or
      white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.; as, iced
      cupcakes with a pink icing look delicious.
      [1913 Webster + PJC]

   3. To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To kill. [slang]
      [PJC]

4. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
ICE
       Image Correction Enhancement (Minolta, Nikon, Scanner)
       

5. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
ICE
       In-Circuit-Emulation
       

6. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
ICE
       Information and Content Exchange [protocol] (XML)
       

7. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
ICE
       Insane Creator Enterprise, "iCE"
       

8. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
ICE
       Internal Compiler Error (GCC)
       

9. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
ice
 n.

    [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk
    SF novels: a contrived acronym for ?Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics?]
    Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion
    by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder). Hence,
    icebreaker: a program designed for cracking security on a system.

    Neither term is in serious use yet as of late 2003, but many hackers find
    the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the future.
    In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with ?ICE?, an
    acronym for ?in-circuit emulator?.

    In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers and
    computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic Experiment) in
    1994. ICE is a consortium to promote uniform international access to strong
    cryptography.


10. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
ICE

   1.  in-circuit emulator.

   2.  Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics.

   (2000-03-18)


11. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Ice
   frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See CRYSTAL.)
   

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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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