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Icehouse

Definition: Icehouse

Icehouse

Noun

1. A house for storing ice.

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

Date "icehouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Icehouse

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Refrigerator

Noun: refrigerator, refrigeratory; frigidarium; cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory; icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler; wine cooler.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Icehouse

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

"Icehouse" can refer to:

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

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Modern Usage: Icehouse

DomainUsage

Song Titles

Electric Blue (performing artist: Icehouse)

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

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Commercial Usage: Icehouse

DomainTitle

Books

  • From Greenhouse to Icehouse (reference)

  • Icehouse (Level 13 Series) (reference)

  • Icehouse Lights (reference)

  • Milankovitch Sea-Level Changes, Cycles, and Reservoirs on Carbonate: Platforms in Greenhouse and Icehouse Worlds (Short Course Notes ; No. 35) (reference)

  • Sniffy's Icehouse (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Icehouse

Photos:
Icehouse

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Icehouse

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

icehouse

219

icehouse river road

34

icehouse pasadena

29

beer icehouse

24

icehouse mail web

14

club comedy icehouse

13

icehouse mp3

9

comedy icehouse

8

icehouse reservoir

8

icehouse lyrics

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Icehouse

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

Albanian

  

shtëpi me blloqe akulli, dyqan i bizhuterisë, depo ushqimesh të ruajtura në akull, depo akulli. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مخزن التبريد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ледница, иглу (igloo). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

冰窖 , 冰室. (various references)

   

Czech

  

ledárna. (various references)

   

French

  

glacière (ice-house). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בית קרור. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(cellar, greenhouse, room). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

むろ (cellar, greenhouse). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(bingo). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icehouseay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

gelo flutuante (trash-ice). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ледяное жилище, ледохранилище, ледник (glacier, ice-box), иглу (igloo). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ledara (ice box). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

iglú (igloo), nevera (cooler, fridge, ice box, icebox, refrigerator), casa de hielo. (various references)

   

Thai

  

โรงน้ำแข็ง. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

іглу (igloo), льодосховище, льодовник (icebox). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Icehouse

Derivations

Words beginning with "icehouse": icehouses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Icehouse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-o-s-u"

-2 letters: chouse, echoes, ouches, seiche.

-3 letters: chose, cosie, cuish, eches, echos, hocus, hoise, house.

-4 letters: cees, chis, cosh, cues, eche, echo, ecus, hies, hoes, hose, hues, huic, ices, ichs, ouch, shoe, sice, such.

-5 letters: cee, chi, cis, cos, cue, ecu, hes, hic, hie, his, hoe, hue, ice, ich, oes, ohs, ose, sec, see, sei, she, sic, sou, sue, use.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: icehouses.

 

+3 letters: discotheque, echoviruses, mouthpieces, outachieves.

 

+4 letters: discotheques, executorship, heteroecious, neurochemist, nucleophiles, touchinesses.

 

+5 letters: autocephalies, clearinghouse, colleagueship, deinonychuses, executorships, grouchinesses, hemicellulose, housecleaning, neurochemists, picturephones, slouchinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Icehouse


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

49 63 65 68 6F 75 73 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.-.    .    ....    ---    ..-    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001001 01100011 01100101 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#99 &#101 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0063 0065 0068 006F 0075 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4369717481878571

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INDEX

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


  

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