(a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.
(n.) The arctic circle.
(n.) A warm waterproof overshoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(2) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(3) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(4) Called arctic packs, the insulating material consists of crude oil or diesel fuel.
(5) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(6) ScalesOfJustice 18 September 2013 12:47pm If we go back to 1998, it appears as though global temperatures have stopped increasing, however Arctic temperatures have increased quite strongly - hence the strong decline in sea-ice since 1998.
(7) It should see the Arctic 30 home in time for Christmas.
(8) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
(9) Summer sea ice The most striking change in the Arctic in recent years has been the reduction in summer sea ice in 2007 .
(10) In addition, another 25 million acres of state and federal lands in the U.S. Arctic — onshore and off — are open to oil and gas leasing; of that,13.5 million acres have already been leased.
(11) Updated at 9.00pm GMT 8.52pm GMT How happy are Arctic Monkeys right now?
(12) "But if it keeps their plight and the plight of the Arctic in the press, I think she would be happy to do it."
(13) Photograph: NSIDC This contrasts sharply with the continuing decline of sea ice in the Arctic, which again recorded below average levels of ice during the summer.
(14) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
(15) Using automatic and observer-operated equipment for monitoring thermal data, observations have been made during Royal Navy Wessex 5 helicopter operations in a sub-Arctic climate.
(16) The investigators said the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise had violated the 500-metre security zone around the platform and that it was carrying equipment whose purpose was still unclear.
(17) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
(18) The US Geological Survey estimated the waters in the Arctic contain about 90bn barrels of recoverable oil.
(19) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
(20) It’s time for governments, business and people the world over to respond and the most obvious place to start is by calling a halt to Shell’s reckless search for Arctic oil.” NSIDC is yet to provide a full analysis of this year’s melt, noting that there is a chance that changing wind patterns or low season melt could see the ice recede further.
Frosty
Definition:
(a.) Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
(a.) Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
(a.) Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
(a.) Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frosty … Rafe Spall in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
(3) An analysis showed that frosty weather, the existence and direction of a wind, atmospheric-electrical processes preceding the passage of meteorological fronts influenced the nature of proliferative responses.
(4) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(5) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(6) Photograph: Fosis Ibrahim Ali, vice-president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies , which says it represents more than 130,000 Muslim students, said the government’s attitude towards his organisation had been “frosty”.
(7) The woman who back in the day managed to win a flame war with Julie Burchill landed the odd decent punch below the belt (Poker Face, she said, perfectly describes Gaga's "frosty mug"), but Gaga remained undemolished as Paglia's critique missed the point by a mile.
(8) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
(9) The prime minister’s spokeswoman denied relations were frosty, saying May had full confidence in Stevens.
(10) Neither of New Orleans nor Philadelphia really lived up to their reputations for explosive offensive football – and perhaps the frosty conditions were a factor here – but they played hard right to the end of a see-saw fourth quarter in which each team had thought the victory was in their grasp long before Shayne Graham’s game-winning kick.
(11) That feeling of Romney's power in New Hampshire is common amid the state's frozen hills and frosty mountains.
(12) Allan Cubitt's startling script turned out to be BBC2's biggest drama launch in years , largely thanks to the warped ying and yang of Gillian Anderson as a frosty detective set against Dornan as Paul Spector, caring therapist by day, rapist and murderer by night.
(13) The frosty relations between Osborne and Johnson, which became semi-public recently when the chancellor’s most loyal supporter, Michael Gove , rubbished the London mayor at a dinner with Rupert Murdoch, are undergoing something of a thaw.
(14) The rain, sleet and snow will be replaced by dry and frosty weather overnight with black ice expected to be an additional hazard in many areas.
(15) It’s meant to be frosty, too, and it’s beautiful when you look up and see the frost in the trees.
(16) Liam Byrne, who had the use of a Jag as chief secretary to the Treasury in the last government, found that crossing a ministerial driver is unwise when details of his allegedly frosty relations with his driver were splashed across the Mail on Sunday in March.
(17) After initially recalling its ambassador to Egypt at the height of diplomatic tensions , Italy has since announced a replacement, though in a sign of the still-frosty relationship he has not yet been sent to Cairo.
(18) All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election which will take place on 8 June.” Within minutes of Tusk’s intervention, however, senior Tory sources suggested the comments could be aimed as much at Juncker, whose account of the apparently frosty dinner in Downing Street was leaked to the German press, as at the prime minister.
(19) But now, with Frosty dead, and the great inquisitors – Paxo, Humphrys – nearing retirement?
(20) The White House in a statement said: “The two leaders agreed on the importance of deepening the already strong United States-Canada relationship and committed to strengthening the countries’ joint efforts to promote trade,combat terrorism, and mitigate climate change.” Trudeau has said he would work to improve Canada-US relations, which he claims became frosty under Harper.