TO BREAK THE ICE

  

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TO BREAK THE ICE

Definition: TO BREAK THE ICE

TO BREAK THE ICE

1. To get through first difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning; to introduce a subject.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO BREAK THE ICE

English words defined with "TO BREAK THE ICE": To break through. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO BREAK THE ICE": Skate. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO BREAK THE ICE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well, I guess it's up to me to break the ice. Where are you going? (The Judy Garland Show; writing credit: John Aylesworth)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO BREAK THE ICE

Language Translations for "TO BREAK THE ICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

megtöri a jeget, elkezd vmit (have a go at sg, to engage in sg, to go on, to proceed to, to proceed to sg). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

言い出す (to propose, to speak, to start talking, to suggest, to tell), 切り出す (to begin to talk, to bring down, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きりい す (to begin to talk, to bring down, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry), きり す (to begin to talk, to bring down, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry), いい す (to propose, to speak, to start talking, to suggest, to tell). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay eakbray ethay iceay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO BREAK THE ICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-h-i-k-o-r-t-t"

-4 letters: artichoke, brochette, heterotic, iceboater, keratotic, theoretic.

-5 letters: aetheric, bathetic, batterie, beachier, beechier, boracite, botchier, brattice, catheter, chattier, cheekier, etcetera, hebetate, hetaeric, tetchier, theatric, theocrat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO BREAK THE ICE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      42 52 45 41 4B      54 48 45      49 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001011 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#66 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#75 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#73 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0042 0052 0045 0041 004B      0054 0048 0045      0049 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492365239354525442392433739

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Non-English Dictionaries with "TO BREAK THE ICE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmagyar

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ"

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょjapán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ"

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationangol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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