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De-ice

Definitions: De-ice

De-ice

Noun

1. Make or become free of frost or ice; "Defrost the car window" de-iodinase n : an enzyme that removes the iodine radical de-iodinate.

Verb

1. Remove iodine from; "de-iodin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: De-ice

Synonyms: defrost (n), deice (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: anti stalling agent (chemistry, transportation), clearing ice (transportation), de-icing (building & civil engineering, sports & leisureeuropean union, physicselectrical engineering), deicing agent (chemistry, transportation), de-icing agent (chemistry, transportation), de-icing air (transportation), de-icing boot (mechanical engineering, transportation), de-icing chemicals (chemistry, transportation), de-icing duct (physics, transportation), deicing mat (transportation), de-icing probe (computing, transportation), de-icing pump (mechanical engineering), de-icing salt (chemistrychemistry, transportation), de-icing salts, deicing system (transportationphysics, transportation), De-icing system (transportation), engine de-icing, highway salt (chemistry), ice-control salt, line de-icing (electrical engineering), road salt (chemistry), thawing salt.

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Modern Usage: De-ice

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This is it. This is a losing battle trying to de-ice these things. (Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac; writing credit: John McGreevey)

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

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Usage Frequency: De-ice

"De-ice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "De-ice" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: De-ice

Language Translations for "de-ice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

enteisen (defrost, deice, to deice). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

e-iceday

   

Russian 

  

предотвращать обледенение. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förhindra isbildning på, avisas, avisa (newspaper). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

buzunu çözmek (unfreeze), buzlanmayı gidermek, buzlanmayı önlemek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: De-ice

Misspellings

"De-ice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dce-lite, dedic, delice, demice, depici, desic, detice, Dewick, Ie-iie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: De-ice

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deice.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i"

-1 letter: cede, cedi, dice, eide, iced.

-2 letters: cee, dee, die, ice.

-3 letters: de, ed, id.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i"
 

+1 letter: ceiled, deceit, decide, decile, deiced, deicer, deices, device, edenic, excide, pieced.

 

+2 letters: cepheid, chedite, chevied, codeine, deceits, deceive, deciare, decibel, decided, decider, decides, deciles, decline, decried, decrier, decries, dehisce, deicers, deicide, devices, devoice, diocese, ecocide, edifice, eidetic, endemic, enticed, evicted, evinced, excided, excides, excised, excited, pedicel, pedicle, pierced, recited, tierced.

 

+3 letters: achieved, audience, becrimed, benedick, benedict, bickered, bisected, casefied, cepheids, cheddite, chedites, cheliped, chiseled, cindered, ciphered, codeines, coderive, codpiece, coedited, comedies, credible, credited, creviced, deceived, deceiver, deceives, decemvir, decennia, deciares, decibels, deciders, deciduae, decimate, decipher, decisive, declined, decliner, declines, decrepit, decriers, decuries, dedicate, defiance, dehisced, dehisces, deicides, delicate, denticle, depicted, depicter, derelict, describe, descried, descrier, descries, desertic, deticked, deticker, deuteric, deviance, devoiced, devoices, dezinced, dickered, dieretic, dietetic, dioceses, dioecies, directed, directer, discreet, discrete, divorcee, echidnae, eclipsed, ecocides, edifices, educible, eductive, elicited, endemics, endermic, enneadic, enriched, epicedia, epidemic, evidence, feticide, genocide, geodesic, geodetic, grecized, incensed, incepted, indecent, indictee, inductee, infected, injected, invected, licenced, licensed, lichened, medicare, medicate, medicine, mediocre, nickeled, nickered, pectized, pedicels, pedicled, pedicles, pedicure, penciled, picketed, precised, precited, premedic, receding, received, reclined, recoiled, recoined, recopied, redecide, redirect, regicide, reinduce, rejoiced, repriced, revoiced, richened, richweed, sclereid, scrieved, seceding, seducive, serviced, sickened, silenced, ticketed, tickseed, wickeder.

 

+4 letters: academies, accidence, acetamide, acetified, acierated, adjective, advective, algaecide, ardencies, audiences, beachside, bedecking, benedicks, benedicts, beneficed, bewitched, cadencies, calipered, cashiered, ceilinged, celandine, centipede, certified, certitude, cheddites, chelipeds, cherished, chickadee, chickened, chickweed, chippered, chiselled, chittered, chivareed, clinkered, coderived, coderives, codpieces, coexisted, coinhered, conceited, conceived, creolised, creolized, crescendi, cricketed, crispened, decaliter, deceasing, deceitful, deceivers, deceiving, decemviri, decemvirs, decencies, decennial, decennium, deception, deceptive, decerning, decertify, decidable, decidedly, deciduate, deciliter, decimated, decimates, decimeter, deciphers, declaimed, declaimer, decliners, decreeing, decretive, dedicated, dedicatee, dedicates, deducible, deductive, defecting, defection, defective, defiances, deficient, dehiscent, dejecting, dejection, delicates, denticles, depicters, derelicts, described, describer, describes, descriers, desiccate, detecting, detection, detective, detickers, deviances, dezincked, diaeretic, dickenses, dietetics, digenetic, diligence, directest, directive, discepted, discerned, discerner, disjected, dissected, divorcees, edacities, educative, elucidate, emaciated, enchained, encircled, endocrine, endoergic, endogenic, epicedium, epidemics, epidermic, eradicate, ethicized, euclidean, eutectoid, evidenced, evidences, exceeding, excitedly, exclaimed, exercised, exorcised, exorcized, exscinded, extincted, feticides, flickered, friedcake, genocides, geodesics, germicide, glyceride, graecized, headpiece, herbicide, impeached, impedance, impudence, incidence, increased, indecency, indictees, indigence, indolence, inductees, inflected, inspected, intercede, juicehead, macedoine, mediacies, medicable, medicares, medicated, medicates, medicined, medicines, nickelled, obedience, officered, pedicured, pedicures, pedogenic, pencilled, perceived, pesticide, pickeered, preceding, predicate, predicted, prejudice, premedics, prenticed, prepriced, presliced, pudencies, quickened, racemized, recarried, receipted, recircled, reclaimed, recondite, recruited, rectified, rectitude, redecided, redecides, redirects, reducible, reductive, regicides, reincited, reinduced, reinduces, rescinded, rescinder, residence, residency, respliced, richweeds, sclereids, screeding, sectioned, seductive, sidepiece, snickered, solecised, solecized, speciated, specified, stenciled, stickseed, stickweed, stridence, thickened, thicketed, tickseeds, traceried, trisected, undeceive, undecided, unexcited, verbicide, vermicide, vesicated, videlicet, whickered, wickedest, witchweed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: De-ice


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

44 65 2D 69 63 65

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

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

01000100 01100101 00101101 01101001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#45 &#105 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 002D 0069 0063 0065

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

387115756971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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