[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ice.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / ice

[← I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/I/)

# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#m1)

2) To ice a cake is to cover it with icing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#m2)

3) «Ice» is also short for ice cream in some places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#m3)

4) To break the ice is to help people feel relaxed when they first meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x1)
- The ice on the pond is 5 centimetres thick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x2)
- There are 6 glasses with 3 ice cubes in each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x3)
- They went ice skating for 2 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x4)
- Water turns to ice at 0 degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x5)
- Ice floats because it is lighter than the same amount of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x6)
- Never walk on ice on a pond or lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x7)
- The ice melted in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x8)
- A funny game helped to break the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x9)
- It was made entirely of ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/13/)
- [The soles of a polar bear's paws have fur and small bumps that grip the ice and keep the feet warm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/105-the-polar-zone-polar-bears/11/)
- [Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/16/)
- [Ringed seals dig snow caves on the ice to hide their pups and keep breathing holes open by scratching the ice with strong claws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/11/)
- [In the Ice Age there lived a giant beaver about as big as a black bear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.