ice

«ice» in Mova's school dictionary: water that has frozen hard because it is very cold — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (ice); verb (ice, ices, iced, icing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Ice is water that has frozen hard because it is very cold. Water becomes ice at 0 degrees Celsius. tree →

2) To ice a cake is to cover it with icing. tree →

3) «Ice» is also short for ice cream in some places. tree →

4) To break the ice is to help people feel relaxed when they first meet. tree →

sense in the lessons

a word of the story, often in «ice cream», «ice cubes» or «ice skating»; ice cubes can be counted; in science: water freezes into ice at 0 °C (32 °F), ice melts when warmed, ice floats on water; in safety: never walk on a frozen pond, icy roads are slippery; phrases: «ice cube», «ice rink», «break the ice», «on thin ice» (in danger of trouble)

examples

• She put 4 ice cubes in each glass. tree →
• The ice on the pond is 5 centimetres thick. tree →
• There are 6 glasses with 3 ice cubes in each. tree →
• They went ice skating for 2 hours. tree →
• Water turns to ice at 0 degrees Celsius. tree →
• Ice floats because it is lighter than the same amount of water. tree →
• Never walk on ice on a pond or lake. tree →
• The ice melted in the sun. tree →
• A funny game helped to break the ice. tree →
• It was made entirely of ice. tree →

note

Carries no clue by itself. Trap: «ice cream» is one food, not ice plus cream. Uncountable: some ice, but «ice cubes» can be counted. Science: water expands when it freezes, so a full bottle can crack.

In the corpora

• The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.
• The soles of a polar bear's paws have fur and small bumps that grip the ice and keep the feet warm.
• Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.
• Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.
• In the Ice Age there lived a giant beaver about as big as a black bear.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ice» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.