icy

«icy» in Mova's school dictionary: covered with ice: an icy road — 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

adjective (icy, icier, iciest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Icy means covered with ice: an icy road. tree →

2) Icy means extremely cold: an icy wind. tree →

3) An icy look or voice is very unfriendly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: icy pavements and roads are slippery, so walk slowly, wear good shoes and never walk on an icy pond or lake because the ice may break. In science: water freezes to ice at 0 degrees Celsius. In stories, an icy stare shows anger or coldness. Phrases: icy roads, icy cold, icy patch.

examples

• Be careful, the path is icy. tree →
• An icy wind blew from the north. tree →
• The car slid on the icy road. tree →
• Never walk on an icy pond. tree →
• The water in the lake was icy cold. tree →
• She gave him an icy look. tree →
• My fingers were icy after the snowball fight. tree →
• Grit is put on icy roads to make them less slippery. tree →
• An icy hand passed over her head and face, and down towards her heart. tree →

note

Comparative: icier, iciest (y changes to i). Comes from ice + y (the e is dropped). In maths/science: icy conditions are when the temperature is at or below 0 °C.

In the corpora

• Grit or sand sprinkled on an icy path gives shoes more grip.
• Falling into icy water makes you gasp and quickly takes away your strength.
• Keep off icy equipment, because ice is very slippery and falls on it are hard.
• One icy morning Sam sees Mr Grimshaw wobbling up his slippery path with four bags of shopping.
• The giant planets probably moved their orbits after they formed, scattering many small icy bodies inward and outward.

Trees and pragmatics

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