(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.
Rime
Definition:
(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.
(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(2) Both TRS and RIME sense transcripts are preferentially synthesized compared to anti-sense transcripts, and are much more abundant in bloodstream forms than in cultured procyclics.
(3) In Experiment 1, partial identity priming using word-final trigrams was observed only when the bigram corresponded to the orthographic rime unit.
(4) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
(5) Words which rhyme share a common rime and thus can be categorized on that speech unit.
(6) The results were discussed in relation to theories suggesting that syllables consist of an onset and a rime.
(7) "The sectarian element was introduced into the revolution in March 2011 by the Assad regime itself, which wants to identify it with sectarian strife," says Syrian writer and analyst Rime Allaf .
(8) Who wants to see the soil stripped from the land, the sea rimed with rubbish?
(9) Monosyllabic words were blended and learned as easily with onset-rime segmentation as with whole word units, for all children.
(10) By then, the Syrian revolutionaries had lost their innocence and the Syrian regime had lost its reticence,” wrote Rime Allaf, a pro-uprising Syrian commentator.
(11) Although there were singles that joined Ultravox's Vienna in the "unfairly denied the top slot" corner – Daft Punk's One More Time (kept off by Leann Rimes's Can't Fight the Moonlight), Pink's Get the Party Started (George Harrison's death pushing My Sweet Lord back to the top) and Kelis's Milkshake (stuck at second base for a whole month thanks to Michelle McManus's All the Time and then LMC's Take Me to the Skies Above) – it was also true that only the genuinely great have hogged the top spot this decade.
(12) Smith's film is a horror comedy starring Michael Parks, featuring the actor, in Smith's words, reciting "some Lewis Carroll and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to some poor motherfucker sewn into a realistic walrus costume".
(13) "It is a ridiculous and dangerous comment," said Rime Allaf, a Syrian analyst at the Chatham House thinktank in London.
(14) That is, can children learn more words segmented at the onset-rime boundary (e.g., CL-AP, D-ISH) than words segmented after the vowel (CLA-P, DI-SH)?
(15) In addition to the antigen gene, it contains seven putative coding regions (ESAGs, for expression site-associated genes), as well as a RIME retroposon.
(16) Here's why: Heavy metal makes kids read Romantic poetry By taking the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and turning them into songs, Iron Maiden (with Rime of the Ancient Mariner) and Rush (Xanadu, based on Kubla Khan) have done more to draw attention to one of English literature's heroes than any number of Oxbridge academics.
(17) Grade 2 and 3 readers increasingly used larger orthographic correspondences termed rimes (e.g., -ook, -ild).
(18) These results are consistent with the view that syllables are coded in terms of an onset (initial consonant or cluster) and a rime (remainder).
(19) We asked whether this same onset-rime segmentation might also be beneficial in teaching children to read.
(20) In all three experiments, onset-rime segmentation proved more helpful than postvowel segmentation in short-term learning of the words.