ice
Water in frozen (solid) form.
Other meanings
Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
Synonyms
- water ice
A kind of
- crystal
Kinds of ice
- black ice
- frost
- ground ice
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "īs".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ice” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.