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Definition: Ice Cap |
Ice CapNoun1. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Ice CapSynonym: icecap (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ice Cap |
| English words defined with "ice cap": Antarctic continent, Antarctica ♦ tundra. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ice cap": Cordilleran ice sheet ♦ TLAs. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ardo X. Meyer, traverse navigator and geomagnetic observer, celebrating at South Pole Station after completing traverse and two months on the ice cap. McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
polar ice cap | 28 |
ice cap ballast | 8 |
the greenland ice cap | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ice cap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | iceay apcay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: icecap, ipecac. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-p" | |
-2 letters: cape, ceca, epic, pace, pica, pice. | |
-3 letters: ace, ape, cap, cep, ice, pac, pea, pec, pia, pic, pie. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, pa, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-p" | |
+1 letter: caprice, icecaps, ipecacs, peccavi. | |
+2 letters: alopecic, caprices, cephalic, chickpea, peccavis, practice. | |
+3 letters: accepting, acceptive, accipiter, chickpeas, cityscape, copacetic, copasetic, eclamptic, peccaries, pedocalic, placekick, practiced, practicer, practices, precocial, sceptical. | |
+4 letters: accipiters, accomplice, apodeictic, apoplectic, capacitate, capacities, capacitive, cataleptic, cityscapes, compliance, complicate, cyclopedia, epicalyces, episcopacy, impeccable, impeccably, megascopic, pancreatic, peacockier, peacocking, peacockish, peccadillo, peccancies, placekicks, practicers, precalculi, prevocalic, reciprocal. | |
+5 letters: acceptation, acceptingly, accipitrine, accompanied, accompanies, accomplices, cacophonies, capacitance, capacitated, capacitates, captaincies, cataleptics, cocaptained, compactible, compliances, complicated, complicates, cyclopaedia, cyclopedias, discrepancy, ectopically, ectoplasmic, hypercapnic, ipecacuanha, malpractice, narcoleptic, occupancies, peacockiest, peccadillos, pickabacked, placekicked, placekicker, practicable, preclinical, precritical, procephalic, reaccepting, reciprocals, reciprocate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 63 65 43 61 70 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I c e   C a p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0063 0065 0043 0061 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4369712376782 |
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