I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
black ice
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Driving conditions are dangerous, with black ice in many areas.
dry ice
fondant icing
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a cake decorated with fondant icing
glacé icing
ice a cake British English , frost a cake American English (= cover a cake with fine sugar mixed with a liquid )
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She iced her own wedding cake.
Ice Age
ice bucket
ice cap
ice cream cone
ice cream parlor
ice cream
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vanilla ice cream
ice cube
ice fishing
ice floe
ice hockey
ice lolly
ice pack
ice pick
ice rink
ice sheet
ice skate
ice water
icing sugar
pack ice
sheet...ice
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A sheet of ice covered the lake.
the Ice Age (= one of the long periods of time, thousands of years ago, when ice covered many northern countries )
water ice
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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He's good and great, but as cold as ice .
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It was as cold as ice .
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She saw him clearly - arrogant as the devil and cold as ice , a ready-made adversary.
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Most of them had to cross a creek swollen with winter rains, and deadly cold with winter ice and snow.
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Obviously if it weren't cold the ice would melt.
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Very cold ice is very hard, and very cold permafrost is extraordinarily tough to cut through.
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His mind went cold as ice .
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Athelstan touched Rastani's hand which was as cold as ice .
dry
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Traditionally, this cooling requirement has been accomplished using slices of solid carbon dioxide, better known as dry ice .
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His thinning gray hair was the color of dry ice .
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And the quantity of dry ice they use, and how much flour the Nephilim have on their clothes!
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That would drive most of the adsorbed gases out of the surface dirt and evaporate the polar dry ice .
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Graham Gussin fills a factory with dry ice .
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Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor.
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After the dry ice had cleared for good, however, grumbles of disappointment could be heard rumbling from the Faust faithful.
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Using a combination of alcohol and dry ice , the firm has pioneered a safe and effective system to deter thieves.
polar
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Lake Vostok lies about 4000 metres beneath the polar ice .
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The use of polar ice to support such a ballistic-transportation scheme requires a substantial consumption of propellant along the way.
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Even the polar ice contains pesticide, for example.
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This astonishing discovery of polar ice on Mercury makes it clear that impacts play a major role on all the terrestrial planets.
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Adult males are nomadic, wandering all round the polar ice cap and living mainly off seals.
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With a yet slower rhythm than the polar ice , the tides of civilization ebbed and flowed across the galaxy.
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There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there.
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During local spring in the polar regions, polar ice and perpetual sunlight may both be available simultaneously!
thin
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And that's fairly thin ice on which to skate one's credibility!
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The ground is frozen, thin ice covers the puddles between the furrows of the empty gray field.
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It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned.
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Bush had the look of thin ice .
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There was water at the bottom covered by a thin skin of ice and he splashed into it face first.
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He was on thin ice before.
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Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over.
■ NOUN
age
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Dole comes from an era as distant as the ice age .
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At that time, an ice age was ending, game animals were flourishing, and humans were relatively few.
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It is not hard to see how these two phenomena might, as it were, assist an ice age on its way.
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An ice age begins slowly, almost imperceptibly, when the average temperature drops by a few degrees.
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Sometimes they echo time-honoured memories of widespread flooding in the region following the end of the last ice age .
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On August 14 the green button on my phone console lit up for the first time in an ice age .
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But ice ages or no, millions of years of erosion will slowly flatten the planetary mineral heaps we call mountains.
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Some are warm and hospitable, while others can be nothing short of an ice age .
bucket
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Gouts of blood, on the bar towels, the ice bucket .
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Just forget about anyone wheeling a linen-covered table into your room with plates, silverware, wine glasses and ice buckets .
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There was an ice bucket in the middle and a bottle of chilled champagne.
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She was counting silver ice buckets for the do.
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What did she need ice buckets for?
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He reaches for the ice bucket and starts pouring the champagne.
cap
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As a result, ice caps are retreating.
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With the melting of the ice caps , it might just be an island.
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Whatever it is, it's melting the ice caps and we're all going to drown.
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These telescopes revealed ice caps at both poles of Mars and documented seasonal changes in color and contrast.
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Adult males are nomadic, wandering all round the polar ice cap and living mainly off seals.
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He may have seen the continental ice cap , raised by mirage.
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There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there.
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Then the ice caps will be able to freeze again; it's a fail-safe mechanism.
cream
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Vivoli's sell the best ice cream in the world.
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With promises of endless ice cream when he awoke, Mama kissed her little son and bade him goodnight, sleep tight.
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We get ice cream every Friday - that's my treat.
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Available commercial ice creams differ in quality.
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What's this fly doing in my ice cream ?
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Dessert may be chocolate crepes or homemade ice cream .
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Not to mention the ice cream and snacks obtained from one of the many kiosks situated along the promenade.
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He takes her to his friends' house and she learns how ice cream is hand made.
crystal
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This is crucial as the ice crystals formed when water freezes would destroy the egg tissues.
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Their creamy white bodies are covered with spiky white ice crystals .
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If it is frozen at different atmospheric pressures, the ice crystals formed are different.
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In fact water can form at least nine different types of ice crystal .
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The redhead's hair sparkled with tiny ice crystals .
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Frostbite is the effect of ice crystals forming within the skin.
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However, when ice crystals form, they will have definite positions and will be lined up in some direction.
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Scrubby bushes festooned with ice crystals which gleamed.
cube
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Add the ice cubes and chill for at least 1 hour.
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Karen took some ice cubes from the freezer and poured the soda.
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Cooking such small amounts of food can be fiddly and time consuming so try freezing baby-sized portions in ice cube trays.
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Or put some ice cubes in the sieve before straining the soup, Roraback suggests.
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Hannah had poured herself a dry Martini and put in ice cubes and lemon.
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The ice cubes will help to cool the soup and attract any fat globules.
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I improvised by putting colour into an ice cube tray - thus giving me deep wells and plenty of colour.
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I fetched ice cubes in the middle of the night to try to numb the backs of my legs.
field
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Andy and John are on an ice field in Zanskar now, toiling slowly up toward the monastery.
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Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields .
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This ice field was steeper than the first, and twice as high.
hockey
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Swindon will go wild if their ice hockey team win promotion to the Premier League.
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And he loved apple juice and chewing gum and watching ice hockey games.
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The consortium is being headed by the manager of the ice hockey team.
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Its ice hockey team is one of the best in the country.
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Neither thought they would ever make a living from ice hockey .
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They've got some good cyclists, some good ice hockey players, but not many good unicycle hockey players.
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The signs look good for ice hockey in the Nineties.
pack
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Flotillas of tabular icebergs and ice islands sail among the pack ice.
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They penetrate south to varying degrees, blue and minke whales often appearing well south of the pack ice edge.
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Most adult male bears spend their lives out on the pack ice , living mainly on seals.
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The September-October northern limit of pack ice varies considerably from year to year.
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The pack ice and fast ice that spread over polar seas form vast sheets many hundreds of square kilometres in area.
pick
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Winter hunting equipment, for example-including snow goggles, ice picks , and harpoons-was stored in skin bags.
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It was as if ice picks had been driven into my ear.
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Blue Mooney squatted next to a pink-and-white Pontiac as he stabbed the ice pick into the fourth tire.
rink
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He got out of bed and fell to his knees on a floor that felt like an ice rink .
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She says her life revolved around the ice rink - she had to fit her personal life in around her skating.
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A permanent 5-inch thick ice rink is created at the beginning of the hockey season.
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Rudakov made an ice rink of the floor of his punishment cell.
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The company also supplies ice rinks and sport shops.
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The village boasts an ice rink , nursery ski school and boutiques, hotels and restaurants.
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Read in studio A company is being set-up to try to save an ice rink which was closed down two days ago.
sea
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The sea ice is now more than a metre thick.
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Also, one photo shows a large object that resembles an iceberg trapped in solid sea ice .
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How could sea ice come and go so quickly?
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Temperatures vary widely, with sea ice cover growing and shrinking by up to 30 percent over a few years.
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Ice monitors have been out drilling and measuring, and already the flat sea ice is strong enough to walk on.
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Even in the depths of winter the sea ice is never a complete cover.
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In ocean dynamics studies, important topics are heat storage, circulation and the role of sea ice .
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Their camp was on an island in the ice , and the sea ice moved sometimes.
sheet
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During the Pleistocene period, Britain's climate ranged from warm-temperate to very cold during the several advances of ice sheets .
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Thus the ice sheet would expand.
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No doubt the ice sheet preserves specimens that would weather away more quickly in other regions.
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The cutter rolls briefly as it splits an ice sheet the size of a suburban back yard.
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In the last one million years the ice sheets spread a layer of boulder clay across the lowlands.
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The tremendous weight of the ice sheet loaded and depressed that part of the lithosphere.
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These differences were caused first by ice sheets and later by rivers.
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As the snow accumulates from that little boreal patch, growing inexorably year after year, gargantuan ice sheets begin to form.
water
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I use them to make a Summer Pudding or a water ice .
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Most of their mass is ordinary water ice , and the rest is carbon-bearing rocky dust.
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Before external cooling with the use of water ice , temperature probes should be inserted to monitor the patient's temperature.
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Comets differ from asteroids in composition in that comets contain abundant water ice , and possibly other ices as well.
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For dessert, go for fresh fruit or water ice .
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It returned exciting evidence that suggests massive deposits of water ice in shadowed crater bottoms near the lunar poles.
■ VERB
break
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Humour Humour can be an excellent behaviour for easing tensions and breaking the ice between people.
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This gambit nevertheless breaks the ice , and they begin by discussing the merits of various brands of scotch.
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That always seems to happen when you break the ice .
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In the winter, she rose early to break the ice in the washing bowls.
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We broke the ice which held our relations in a paralysing grip.
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I have to break the ice with a long pole before I can lower a bucket into water.
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She helps break the ice when I am interviewing.
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To break the ice , the dorm leader asked us to tell the group what our favorite home-cooked meal was.
cut
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The fact it was an out-of-character performance for this season cut no ice .
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This introduction had cut the ice .
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High-sounding jargon or pointless platitudes cut little ice when one is alert to the actual message being conveyed.
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When they could, his companions cut ice and thawed it for water needed in the daily mass.
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None of which cut much ice with Manchester United, who controlled this match from start to finish without breaking sweat.
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But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him.
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We planned to cut ice bollards and ice threads to save our precious supply of abseil gear.
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This had always been the fall-back position, but at this late stage in the argument it cut no ice .
melt
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Whatever it is, it's melting the ice caps and we're all going to drown.
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Zwally observes that melting ice has flooded the Earth before.
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Which melts faster - the ice with the salt or the ice on its own?
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With the melting of the ice caps, it might just be an island.
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If you wanted to melt ice quickly you would heat it.
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If the temperature of the air is very, very cold, salt is not effective in melting ice .
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Granny felt the words in her head for several seconds, like little melting cubes of ice .
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Calcium chloride, another useful salt, will melt ice at even lower temperatures.
put
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The champagne has been put on ice at Stockton.
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Or put some ice cubes in the sieve before straining the soup, Roraback suggests.
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Never put ice in the drinks and don't let your kids eat ice cream.
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Meanwhile, fill the cup with water and put the ice cube in it. 2.
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But the sadness of the day put the celebrations on ice .
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Wherever they harvest the heart, it could be put on ice until we arrive.
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Worst affected is your love life, so expect dates to be cancelled or romantic liaisons to be put on ice .
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He took a long therapeutic swallow and put ice cubes in his mouth, crushing them between large molars.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (walking/treading/skating) on thin ice
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He was on thin ice before.
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It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned.
be skating on thin ice
break the ice
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I tried to break the ice by offering her a drink, but she said no.
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Humour Humour can be an excellent behaviour for easing tensions and breaking the ice between people.
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I have to break the ice with a long pole before I can lower a bucket into water.
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In the winter, she rose early to break the ice in the washing bowls.
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She helps break the ice when I am interviewing.
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That always seems to happen when you break the ice.
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This gambit nevertheless breaks the ice, and they begin by discussing the merits of various brands of scotch.
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To break the ice, the dorm leader asked us to tell the group what our favorite home-cooked meal was.
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We broke the ice which held our relations in a paralysing grip.
cut no ice/not cut much ice
ice-cream/funeral/tattoo parlour
snow/ice field
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Andy and John are on an ice field in Zanskar now, toiling slowly up toward the monastery.
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Cross-country skiing is very popular and cable cars and ski lifts take the skiers up to the snow fields .
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Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields .
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This ice field was steeper than the first, and twice as high.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Drive carefully - there's ice on the road.
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There was hardly any ice in my Coke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He began hacking at the ice on the gauges and the air intakes.
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Lenses of rather pure ice are conceivable, but more likely is a permafrost containing 10 percent to 30 percent ice.
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The ground is frozen, thin ice covers the puddles between the furrows of the empty gray field.
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The icebox was packed with beer and he'd prepared a lobster salad that he'd left on ice .
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This was worse, with impossible moves on gritty walls and creaks and trickles from the cliffs of ice .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
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Parts of the Bristol Avon were iced over , resulting in the cancellation of the Bradford-On-Avon Open.
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Schools are closed, roads are iced over , rain has turned to sleet.
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The roads may have iced over , the rain may be too ugly to face.
up
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It would be prohibitively expensive to chop that ice up and ship it to needy regions.
■ NOUN
cake
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Gran did that, you know, as usual, and she made the cake and I've iced it.
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There they served one of the best cakes with chocolate icing I have ever had.
■ VERB
put
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We pay him to put icing on the cake, and tie him to us.
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A year ago, Holiday Inn put the icing on the cake at two of its Florida properties.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (walking/treading/skating) on thin ice
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He was on thin ice before.
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It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned.
ice-cream/funeral/tattoo parlour
snow/ice field
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Andy and John are on an ice field in Zanskar now, toiling slowly up toward the monastery.
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Cross-country skiing is very popular and cable cars and ski lifts take the skiers up to the snow fields .
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Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields .
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This ice field was steeper than the first, and twice as high.
the icing on the cake
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A year ago, Holiday Inn put the icing on the cake at two of its Florida properties.
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And for the family business with such humble beginnings the expansion is just the icing on the cake.
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And just to put the icing on the cake he has named it Black Forest Chateau.
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Female speaker It's an added bonus, the icing on the cake.
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I would also endorse heartily our bikes, which provided the icing on the cake.
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Items such as these are the icing on the cake.
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The prospects of a change in government banking policy has been the icing on the cake.
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This is just the icing on the cake.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kemp iced the game in the final five seconds by scoring two free throws.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Rookie Mike Miller iced the victory with two more free throws with 15 seconds to play.