(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.
Polo
Definition:
(n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.
(n.) A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is a kind we have already been warned about — by Marco Polo in Italo Calvino’s deathless novel Invisible Cities .
(2) And if fancy hats and champers are more your scene, there's a free beach polo match here on 16 September, with public champagne bars and a barbecue.
(3) Officers were in low numbers and principally dressed in bright blue polo shirts emblazoned with “NYPD Community Affairs”.
(4) The real disgrace is the withdrawal of funding to mass participation, “local” sports such as basketball and water polo, which have the potential to do so much good in communities and cities across the country, in order to concentrate money on elite individuals who long ago ceased to be inspirational and now have a standing no higher than reality TV.
(5) He lost weight and took to polo in his late 40s with the enthusiasm of a man half his age, putting millions of pounds into the game in England, Australia and Argentina, and spending up to five months a year on the international polo circuit.
(6) Rake, married with four sons, keeps horses at his Oxfordshire home and has formed a polo team.
(7) He will hand control of the company, best known for its colourful polo shirts and preppy advertising campaigns, to a Gap executive in November.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mario Polo, of Boston Market, left, talks to job seekers Herby Joseph, right, and Kingsly Jose, center, at a job fair in Sunrise, Florida.
(9) Billboards and placards sprang up around Egypt, showing him not in his familiar uniform but in a tracksuit, polo shirt or smart suit, with a discreet prayer bruise – a mark cultivated by some devout men by pressing their foreheads hard to the ground during prayer – calculated to set housewives’ hearts aflutter.
(10) In a bid to increase sales, Ralph Lauren has added three new brands, including Polo for Women and Polo Sport, as well as expanded both its luxury business and online operations.
(11) In the past few years, they have drilled boreholes for polo and cricket pitches, stables, and people who want their own supplies.
(12) "My first job was packing Polos in a factory so I don't need anyone to tell me what it's like being a normal person on normal amounts of money."
(13) Papillomatous lesions intruding into the laryngeal airway were identified in an imported polo pony during a routine neurological examination for partial quadriplegia.
(14) Tight polo necks, worn as layers, and smart little denim jackets looked likely to be commercial hits.
(15) Embryos from homozygous polo females have aberrant mitotic spindles that are highly branched and have broad poles.
(16) He wanted to design ties that were bigger, better, glitzier, but the company was not interested so he set up on his own under the name Polo in 1967.
(17) He later developed synovitis, a rheumatoid condition of the tendon in the hand, after a polo fall.
(18) Serum samples obtained from 107 Polo horses showing clinical signs of viral respiratory disease were tested for precipitating antibodies to adenovirus by agar gel precipitation test and counter-immunoelectrophoresis method.
(19) What fun they all must have had in Kashmir, where polo was invented.
(20) The other disciplines to lose financial backing from the nation's high-performance sports agency were synchronised swimming, water polo, weightlifting, football for the visually impaired, goalball and wheelchair fencing, despite UK Sport having already spent almost £6m on these seven events since London 2012 in the belief that they were capable of challenging for medals.