ice
/aɪs/
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Translation
Water that has become hard and solid because it is very cold.
Word origin
From Old English is, the common Germanic word for frozen water.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- is
Examples
lake winter.
"Ice" is water that has become hard because of the cold.
.
Here "ice" is one whole thing, so it has no plural.
careful, .
"Ice" here is the hard, slippery layer of frozen water.
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