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Ice Storm

Definition: Ice Storm

Ice Storm

Noun

1. A storm with freezing rain that leaves everything glazed with ice.

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



Specialty Definitions: Ice Storm

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A storm in which falling rain freezes as soon as it touches any object. Source: European Union. (references)

Geography

Storm characterized by occurrence of glaze. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Ice storm

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An ice storm is a storm of freezing rain, a form of precipitation composed of rain that turns to ice on contact with the ground. It typically occurs when the ground is cold but the air is warm enough for rain. When significant amounts of ice accumulates, the ice storm can have severe results including damaging trees, dwellings, and high-tension cables.

Recent Ice Storms

In 1991, a severe ice storm hit the city of Rochester, New York. The ice storm put almost all residents out of power and almost all trees lost limbs.

A severe ice storm in January 1998 struck a large region of southeastern Ontario, southwestern Quebec, and upstate New York. Montreal was especially hard hit, with large areas of the city being deprived of power for a week or more. A third of the trees in Mount Royal Park had to be felled, and forests, and in particular the economically important production of maple sugar in the region, were devastated. This storm was blamed on El Niño.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ice storm."

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Synonym: Ice Storm

Synonym: silver storm (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ice Storm

English words defined with "ice storm": getpower failure, power outagesilver storm. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ice Storm

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Ice Storm (1997)

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Commercial Usage: Ice Storm

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ice Storm (reference)

  • Ice storm '96 : days of darkness, days of cold : a pictorial record of the worst winter storm in the history of the inland Northwest : featuring reports and photos from the Spokesman-Review (reference)

  • Night of the Ice Storm (reference)

  • Stories from the Ice Storm (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Ice Storm

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ice Storm

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the ice storm

139

1998 ice storm

15

ice storm 98

11

ice storm movie

5

2003 ice storm

5

ice storm vermont

3

1997 ice storm

3

ice storm winter

2

cause ice storm

2
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Modern Translations: Ice Storm

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

Danish

  

isstorm, uvejr med regn,der danner isslag, storm med isslag, storm i forbindelse med isslag. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ijzel (black ice, clear ice, glaze, glazed frost), ijsstorm. (various references)

   

French

  

verglas massif, tempête de verglas, perturbations givrantes. (various references)

   

German

  

Glatteis-Wetterlage, Eissturm, Eisregen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θύελλα με υαλόπαγον. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tempesta di ghiaccio, perturbazione caratterizata dalla comparsa di vetrone, gelicidio. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iceay ormstay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

verglas maciço, tempestade de verglas, tempestade de gelo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tormenta de hielo, tormenta de escarcha, tempestad de hielo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

storm i kombination med isbildning, kraftigt underkylt regn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ice Storm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mortices.

Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: erotics, erotism, metrics, moister, mortice, mortise, trisome.

-2 letters: cestoi, citers, comers, comets, comtes, corset, cosier, coster, crimes, erotic, escort, isomer, merits, metric, metros, micros, mister, miters, mitres, moires, rectos, remits, rimose, scoter, sector, sitcom, smiter, somite, sortie, steric, timers, tories, trices, triose.

-3 letters: ceros, cesti, cires, citer, cites, coirs, comer, comes, comet, comte, cores, corms, corse, coset, cosie, cotes, crest, cries, crime, emirs, emits, escot, items, merit, mesic, metis, metro, micro, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, moire, moist, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, omers, omits, osier, osmic, recti, recto, remit, rices, rimes, riots, rites, roset, rotes, rotis, score, scrim, smite, smote, stime, stoic, store, storm, terms, tiers, timer, times, tires, tiros, tomes, torcs, tores, toric, torse, torsi, trice, tries, trims, trios, trois.

-4 letters: cero, cire, cist, cite, coir, come, core, corm, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, emic, emir, emit, eros, erst, etic, ices, ires, item, mice, mire, mirs, mise, miso, mist, mite, mocs, more, mors, mort, most, mote, mots, omer, omit, orcs, ores, orts, otic, recs, reis, rems, rest, rets, rice, rime, rims, riot, rise, rite, rocs, roes, roms, rose, rote, roti, rots, scot, sect, semi, sice, sire, site, smit, some, sore, sori, sort, stem, stir, term, tics, tier, ties, time, tire, tiro, toes, tome, toms, torc, tore, tori, tors, trim, trio.

-5 letters: cis, cor, cos, cot, ems, ers, ice, ire, ism, its, met, mir, mis, moc, mor, mos, mot, oes, oms, orc, ore, ors, ort, ose, rec, rei, rem, res, ret, rim, roc, roe, rom, rot, sec, sei, ser, set, sic, sim, sir, sit, som, sot, sri, tic, tie, tis, toe, tom, tor.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: chromites, costumier, eroticism, intercoms, isometric, recommits, trichomes.

 

+2 letters: biometrics, concretism, costmaries, costumiers, cremations, customizer, dosimetric, ecotourism, eroticisms, geometrics, isometrics, manticores, microcytes, microstate, microtomes, microtones, osmometric, sclerotium, semitropic, sociometry, viscometer, viscometry.

 

+3 letters: astrometric, atmospheric, bichromates, cafetoriums, ceilometers, choirmaster, clinometers, cliometrics, commiserate, commixtures, competitors, computerise, computerist, concretisms, consumerist, coppersmith, costumeries, coterminous, creationism, crematories, customizers, dichromates, ecotourisms, egocentrism, elastomeric, esotericism, hematocrits, heteroecism, hypsometric, importances, macerations, melioristic, meritocrats, meroblastic, mesotrophic, meteoritics, microliters, micrometers, micropipets, microstates, misconstrue, miscreation, modernistic, multicourse, multisource, neuroticism, overcommits, plyometrics, romanticise, semitropics, sociometric, spirometric, thermionics, timocracies, uricotelism, viscometers, viscometric.

 

+4 letters: achromatizes, actinometers, anticonsumer, atmospherics, biochemistry, calorimeters, centimorgans, chemotropism, choirmasters, colorimeters, commentaries, commiserated, commiserates, comparatives, computerised, computerises, computerists, computerizes, computerniks, conformities, conservatism, consumerists, conterminous, coppersmiths, coulometries, countermines, craniotomies, creationisms, crematoriums, cryptomerias, demarcations, democratizes, discomfiture, discomforted, divorcements, dominatrices, econometrics, econometrist, ecoterrorism, egocentrisms, emancipators, embrocations, esotericisms, euchromatins, gastrocnemii, geochemistry, heteroecisms, importancies, imprecations, isodiametric, mediocrities, mercurations, meretricious, mesothoracic, metrications, microgametes, microinjects, micromethods, microtubules, misconstrued, misconstrues, miscreations, misdirection, mucoproteins, multicourses, neurochemist, neuroticisms, nonsymmetric, polycentrism, problematics, psychometric, radiochemist, reclamations, recombinants, recommittals, reductionism, romanticised, romanticises, romanticizes, seismometric, semitropical, sociometries, streptomycin, tensiometric, theocentrism, thermoclines, thermostatic, trichotomies, uricotelisms, velocimeters, viscometries, viscosimeter, vitrectomies.

 

+5 letters: actinometries, anisometropic, anticonsumers, aromaticities, autoeroticism, biometricians, calorimetries, ceremonialist, chemisorption, chemotropisms, chronometries, colorimetries, commercialist, commiserating, commiseration, commiserative, computerising, conservatisms, consumeristic, contemporizes, coterminously, counterclaims, counterimages, craniometries, customariness, cytochemistry, democratizers, densitometric, discomfitures, documentaries, documentarist, econometrists, ecoterrorisms, erythromycins, ethnocentrism, gastrectomies, gastrocnemius, geometricians, hemichordates, homoeroticism, imperfections, inclinometers, intercompares, isometrically, manufactories, masticatories, melodramatics, meritocracies, meteoriticist, microcassette, microclimates, microcultures, microelements, micropipettes, microswitches, microtechnics, minicomputers, misdirections, misperception, myocarditises, myrmecologist, nephrectomies, neurochemists, ovariectomies, overmedicates, paramountcies, perfectionism, polycentrisms, postembryonic, precombustion, promiscuities, protectionism, psychometrics, psychometries, psychrometric, racemizations, radiochemists, recommitments, recomposition, reductionisms, respirometric, sacerdotalism, semiconductor, sensitometric, spectrometric, spermatogenic, stoichiometry, streptomycins, superromantic, theocentrisms, thermochemist, thermoplastic, thermospheric, thoracotomies, tracheotomies, tragicomedies, unimportances, viscosimeters, viscosimetric.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ice Storm


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

49 63 65      53 74 6F 72 6D

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

    

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

01001001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#83 &#116 &#111 &#114 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0063 0065      0053 0074 006F 0072 006D

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

43697125386818479

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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