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Definition: Icecap |
IcecapNoun1. 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: IcecapSynonym: ice cap (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Icecap |
| Specialty definitions using "icecap": Nevado del Ruiz. (references) |
| "Icecap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Icecap" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
icecap | 26 |
icecap ballast | 12 |
660 icecap | 5 |
icecap lighting | 3 |
icecap inc | 3 |
fan icecap | 2 |
black ice icecap | 2 |
430 icecap | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "icecap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | kalotti (skull-cap), jääpeite (coating of ice). (various references) | |
French | glace circumpolaire. (various references) | |
German | eisschicht, eiskappe, eisdecke (sheet of ice). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icecapay.(various references) | |
Russian | ледниковый покров. (various references) | |
Swedish | iskalott, isbälte. (various references) | |
Thai | ชั้นน้ำแข็งที่ปกคลุมพื้นโลก (แถบขั้วโลกเหนือและใต้). (various references) | |
Ukranian | крижаний покрив, пузир з льодом для голови, полярний лід. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "icecap": icecaps. (additional references) | |
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"Icecap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cincpac, icca, iccat, iccpr, Icpc, iecc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: 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 63 61 70 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -.-. . -.-. .- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100011 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I c e c a p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0063 0065 0063 0061 0070 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)436971696782 |
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