Definition: ice

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

ice
     n 1: water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in
          their drinks" [syn: water ice]
     2: the frozen part of a body of water
     3: (informal) diamonds; "look at the ice on that dame!" [syn: sparkler]
     4: a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
        [syn: frosting, icing]
     5: a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one
        containing no milk) [syn: frappe]
     6: 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 [syn: internal-combustion
        engine, ICE]
     7: a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating;
        "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice"
        [syn: ice rink, ice-skating rink]
     v 1: decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: frost]
     2: put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [=i]s; aksin to D.
   ijs, G. eis, OHG. [=i]s, Icel. [=i]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and
   perh. to E. iron.]
   1. 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[deg] C.
      being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

   Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
         melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
         properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
         it.

   2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.

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

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

   Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
      other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
      is thus attached or anchored to the ground.

   Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
      extensive fields which drift out to sea.

   Ground ice, anchor ice.

   Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
      Glacial.

   Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
      field of ice. --Kane.

   Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
      horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
      yet in sight.

   Ice boat.
      (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
          ice by sails; an ice yacht.
      (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
          

   Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which
      things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.

   Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
      --Shak.

   Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
      sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

   Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.

   Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to
      an ice field, but smaller.

   Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.

   Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
      

   Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice
      artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
      through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
      rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

   Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).

   Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.

   Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
      reproducing; papier glac['e].

   Ice petrel (Zo["o]l.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of
      the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.

   Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
      pieces.

   Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
      course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
      also ice master.

   Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.

   Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.

Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iced ([imac]st); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Icing ([imac]"s[i^]ng).]
   1. To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something
      resembling ice.

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

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

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)

ICE

   1. <electronics> in-circuit emulator.

   2.  Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics.

   (2000-03-18)

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001

ICE
        In-Circuit-Emulation

ICE
        Information and Content Exchange

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

ice n. [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's
   cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure
   Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that
   responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill
   the intruder). Hence, `icebreaker': a program designed for cracking
   security on a system.

   Neither term is in serious use yet as of early 2001, but many hackers
   find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the
   future. In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with
   `ICE', an acronym for "in-circuit emulator".

   In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers
   and computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic
   Experiment) in 1994. ICE is a consortium to promote uniform
   international access to strong cryptography.

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Ice
   frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See CRYSTAL.)