(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.
Icy
Definition:
(superl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.
(superl.) Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
(2) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
(3) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
(4) ICI 74 205, a synthetic analogue of prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2a) with an alkyl side chain extended by an ethyl group, was administered intravenously in 6 patients using normal saline as the vehicle.
(5) However, the pressor response to the stressors was greater in ICI 118,551- than vehicle-treated F1, but the tachycardia was equivalent for both groups.
(6) Rapid cellular uptake and metabolism of polyglutamate forms that are approximately 100-fold more potent as inhibitors of TS can translate a modest TS inhibitor such as ICI D1694 into a very potent inhibitor of cell growth (approximately 500- and approximately 10-fold more potent than CB3717 or ICI 198583, respectively).
(7) Naloxone affected CS levels in control mice and appeared to reduce the CS response to stress: ICI 154,129 and ICI 174,864 did not produce consistent effects on plasma CS levels.
(8) Treatment of hamsters with the same protocol and doses of ICI 200,880 for 8 wk prevented the destructive lesion induced by a single intratracheal dose of HNE.
(9) Tamoxifen (ICI 46474) is the trans-isomer of 1(p-beta-dimethylaminoethoxy-phenyl)-1, 2-diphenylbut-1-ene.
(10) However, with 50 nM ICI 118551 there was a reduction in the maximum response to isoprenaline.
(11) The effect of methallibure (ICI 33828) on spermatogenesis was studied in the gerbil, hedgehog, and mouse.
(12) The two LTD4 receptor antagonists (MK-571 and ICI-204,219) significantly reduced the permeability changes induced by indomethacin, while the two LTB4 antagonists (SC-41930 and LY-255,283) were without significant effect.
(13) Using a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover design, we tested the hypothesis that the LTD4 receptor antagonist, ICI 204,219, could inhibit LTD4-induced bronchoconstriction in normal subjects.
(14) However, a glutamate antagonist (MK801) and three serotonin antagonists (ritanserin, ketanserin and ICI 170,809) were all unable to alter the MPTP effects, at the doses used in our study.
(15) However, the ICI-ER complexes that remain are in sufficient quantity to bind to gene activation reporter constructs, and in these cells, ICI still behaves as a pure antagonist of gene transcription and does not activate reporter genes.
(16) Only ICI 111,581 (5 mg kg-1) and propranolol (1 and 10 mg kg-1) prolonged P-R interval.
(17) After 7 injections of Zoladex Depot (ICI Pharma, Heidelberg, Germany), the uterus was reduced to normal size carrying dorsally a myoma of the same size.
(18) Pulse-chase experiments indicate that the half-life of the receptor is reduced from approximately 5 hr in the presence of estradiol to less than 1 hr by ICI 164,384.
(19) Plasma concentrations of AUC for ICI 169, 369 were low.
(20) The compound ICI 164,384 [N-n-butyl-N-methyl-11-(3,17 beta-dihydroxyoestra-1,3,5(10)-trien-7 alpha-yl) undecamide] was entirely devoid of oestrogenic activity in the rat and mouse uterus but completely blocked the uterine stimulatory effects of oestradiol and of tamoxifen.