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# icing

«icing» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sweet topping made of sugar, often with butter or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Icing is a sweet topping made of sugar, often with butter or water, that covers cakes and biscuits. In the USA it is often called frosting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#m1)

2) Icing is also ice forming on something, like the wings of a plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#m2)

3) «The icing on the cake» means something extra that makes a good thing even better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a part of baking stories; amounts of icing used, or cakes with icing counted; in cooking: icing sugar, piping icing, decorating cupcakes; in science: icing on roads and planes is dangerous; phrases: «the icing on the cake», «icing sugar»

### examples

- Each cupcake needs 20 g of icing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x1)
- She put icing on 12 of the 30 biscuits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x2)
- The cake has pink icing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x3)
- How much icing for 6 cakes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x4)
- We decorated the cupcakes with blue icing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x5)
- Mix icing sugar with a little water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x6)
- Winning the cup was great, and the medal was the icing on the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x7)
- Icing on the road made it slippery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icing/#x8)

### note

Usually an amount per item (a rate): total icing = items × icing per item. Carries no clue on its own. Uncountable: some icing. «Icing» (UK, Australia) = «frosting» (US).

### In the corpora

- [paska is a tall Easter bread with white icing; the festival itself is called Velykden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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