What's the difference between ice and ick?

Ice


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
  • (n.) 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¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
  • (n.) Concreted sugar.
  • (n.) Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
  • (n.) Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
  • (v. t.) To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.
  • (v. t.) To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (2) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
  • (3) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
  • (4) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
  • (5) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (6) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
  • (7) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
  • (8) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
  • (9) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
  • (10) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (11) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
  • (12) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
  • (13) 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.
  • (14) 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.
  • (15) For the last two decades, the research on fish "antifreeze" proteins has focused exclusively on their ability to depress noncolligatively blood plasma freezing points, presumably by binding to ice crystals.
  • (16) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
  • (17) A registry, established by the Committee on Prevention of Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Hockey, of major injuries to the spine or spinal cord sustained while playing ice hockey contains 117 cases entered between January 1966 and March 1987; 112 of these injuries were sustained in Canada.
  • (18) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
  • (19) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
  • (20) Business in Dadaab For others like Abdihakim, the ice shop owner, Dadaab is home.

Ick


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estimates of the single-channel conductance from the noise variance of the whole-cell current IcK indicated a value at +80 mV of 115 pS, very similar to that of the large-conductance Ca2(+)-activated K+ channels studied in these cells using single-channel recording.
  • (2) IcK did not inactivate significantly over 6 s. It activated with a less negative threshold than IdK, usually near 0 mV when the pipette solution contained 0.8 mM-EGTA with no added calcium.
  • (3) The momcreatures lament, "Old Spice sprayed a man of my son…" As if these parent predators singing off key were not horrific enough, one scary verse verges on the boys will be boys rape culture with the line, "Now we know just who to blame when our sons have fun with women and misbehave…" Ick.
  • (4) The sera of 212 patients with malignant and non-malignant diseases have been radioimmunoassayed for the presence of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) using 3 different kits produced of Hoffman La Roche, Switzerland (RCK), BY Sorin-IRE, Italy and Belgium (SCK), and by the Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese, Italy (ICK).
  • (5) In the presence of endodermically-derived system carcinomas, the RCK gave more positive results (72.6%) than did the SCK (63.1%) or ICK (56.2%).
  • (6) That week alone it had been falsely reported in the News Of The World that he had been dumped by a "Norwegian beauty" called Natassia Scarlet Malthe, and falsely reported in the Daily Star that he had been having secret face-to-face meetings with "mental conspiracy theorist David Icke" (they've never met).
  • (7) Last weekend, I was at a festival in Laugharne to see David Icke interviewed by Keith Allen.
  • (8) With regard to other carcinomas, ICK (50.0%) and SCK (47.1%) gave better results than did RCK (30.6%).
  • (9) In this sense the double antibody method employed by SCK and ICK is clinically more advantageous than is the perchloric acid extraction-zirconyl phosphate gel precipitation method of RCK.
  • (10) This stuff might drive some web traffic, but so does David Icke."
  • (11) Just like Page, Juno looks every inch the moody teen in hoodie and baggy jeans, but - bar the use of "forshizz" and "ick" and "fuckity-OWW!"
  • (12) The following information was collected: hours between pain onset and streptokinase administration (TS), hours of pain after streptokinase administration (DP), initial and peak creatine phosphokinase levels (ICK and PCK), time to peak creatine phosphokinase, time to electrocardiographic ST segment resolution.
  • (13) In both studies the Self-Motivation Scale (Dishman, Ickes and Morgan, 1980) was used to classify program participants according to their level of self-motivation.
  • (14) It could be divided into two components: an inactivating, 4-aminopyridine- and phencyclidine-sensitive low-noise current (IdK), and a non-inactivating, tetraethylammonium (TEA)- and charybdotoxin-sensitive high-noise current (IcK).
  • (15) Icke didn't turn up (that's reptiles for you), but Bez, "crazy dancer" of Happy Mondays, went on stage as he wants to become MP for Salford.
  • (16) Infectious crystalline keratopathy (ICK) is a chronic corneal infection characterized by interlamellar plaques of gram-positive coccal bacteria in the absence of inflammatory cells.
  • (17) President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “embarrassed” that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the death by strangulation of Jee Ick-joo, on the grounds of the national police headquarters.
  • (18) His production of 1984, created with Robert Icke, played in the West End this year.

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