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Frost vs. Ice

Frost and Ice Definitions

Frost

A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.

Ice

Water frozen solid.

Frost

A period of weather when such deposits form.

Ice

A surface, layer, or mass of frozen water.

Frost

A cold manner or period of disaffection
A frost in diplomatic relations.

Ice

Something resembling frozen water
Ammonia ice.
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Frost

To cover with frost.

Ice

A frozen dessert consisting of water, sugar, and a liquid flavoring, often fruit juice.

Frost

To damage or kill by frost.

Ice

Cake frosting; icing.

Frost

To cover (glass, for example) with a roughened or speckled decorative surface.

Ice

(Slang) Diamonds.
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Frost

To cover or decorate with icing
Frost a cake.

Ice

(Sports) The playing field in ice hockey; the rink.

Frost

To bleach or lighten the color of (hair) with dye so that some but not all strands are changed in color.

Ice

Extreme unfriendliness or reserve.

Frost

(Slang) To anger or upset
What really frosted me about the incident was the fact that you lied.

Ice

(Slang) A payment over the listed price of a ticket for a public event.
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Frost

To become covered with frost
The windshield frosted up overnight.

Ice

(Slang) Methamphetamine.

Frost

A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.

Ice

To coat or slick with solidly frozen water.

Frost

The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.

Ice

To cause to become ice; freeze.

Frost

(figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

Ice

To chill by setting in or as if in ice.

Frost

(obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.

Ice

To cover or decorate (a cake, for example) with a sugar coating.

Frost

A shade of white, like that of frost.

Ice

(Slang) To ensure of victory, as in a game; clinch.

Frost

A disappointment; a cheat.

Ice

(Sports) To shoot (the puck) from one's defensive half of an ice hockey rink across the opponent's goal line outside of the goal.

Frost

(television) A kind of light diffuser.

Ice

(Slang) To kill; murder.

Frost

(transitive) To cover with frost.

Ice

To turn into or become coated with ice; freeze
The pond iced over.

Frost

(intransitive) To become covered with frost.

Ice

(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.

Frost

(transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.

Ice

Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.

Frost

To anger or annoy.
I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.

Ice

Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.

Frost

(transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.

Ice

(countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.

Frost

(transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

Ice

An ice cream.

Frost

The act of freezing; - applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

Ice

(uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.

Frost

The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

Ice

One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds.

Frost

Frozen dew; - called also hoarfrost or white frost.
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

Ice

Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.

Frost

Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.
The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange blackobscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.

Ice

The area where a game of ice hockey is played.

Frost

To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

Ice

Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.

Frost

To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass; as, glass may be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.
While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.

Ice

An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.

Frost

To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

Ice

(slang) Money paid as a bribe.

Frost

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

Ice

(transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage.

Frost

Weather cold enough to cause freezing

Ice

(intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.

Frost

The formation of frost or ice on a surface

Ice

(transitive) To make icy; to freeze.

Frost

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

Ice

To murder.

Frost

Decorate with frosting;
Frost a cake

Ice

(transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.

Frost

Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance;
Frost the glass
She frosts her hair

Ice

(ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season

Frost

Cover with frost;
Ice crystals frosted the glass

Ice

(ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.

Frost

Damage by frost;
The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and athey turned brown

Ice

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

Ice

Concreted sugar.

Ice

Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

Ice

Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.

Ice

To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

Ice

To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

Ice

To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

Ice

Water frozen in the solid state;
Americans like ice in their drinks

Ice

The frozen part of a body of water

Ice

Diamonds;
Look at the ice on that dame!

Ice

A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes

Ice

A frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)

Ice

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

Ice

A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine

Ice

A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating;
The crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice

Ice

Decorate with frosting;
Frost a cake

Ice

Put ice on or put on ice;
Ice your sprained limbs

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