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

2) Icy means extremely cold: an icy wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#m2)

3) An icy look or voice is very unfriendly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x1)
- An icy wind blew from the north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x2)
- The car slid on the icy road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x3)
- Never walk on an icy pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x4)
- The water in the lake was icy cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x5)
- She gave him an icy look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x6)
- My fingers were icy after the snowball fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x7)
- Grit is put on icy roads to make them less slippery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x8)
- An icy hand passed over her head and face, and down towards her heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/icy/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/15/)
- [Falling into icy water makes you gasp and quickly takes away your strength.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/21/)
- [Keep off icy equipment, because ice is very slippery and falls on it are hard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/20/)
- [One icy morning Sam sees Mr Grimshaw wobbling up his slippery path with four bags of shopping.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/8/)
- [The giant planets probably moved their orbits after they formed, scattering many small icy bodies inward and outward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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