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Definition: Icicle |
IcicleNoun1. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "icicle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
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Computing | A cone-shaped peak or sharp point of solder, usually formed by the premature cooling and solidification of solder upon removal of the heat source. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ice is the solid form of water. The phase transition occurs when liquid water is cooled down to 0°C (273K, 32°F) at standard atmospheric pressure. Ice can be formed at higher temperatures in pressurized environments, and water will remain a liquid or gas until -30°C at lower pressures. Ice formed at high pressure has a different crystal structure and density than ordinary ice.
Ice, water and water vapour can coexist at the triple point, which for this system is 273.16K at a pressure of 611.73 Pa.
An unusual feature of ice frozen at a pressure of one atmosphere is that the solid is less dense than liquid water (10% less). This is due to hydrogen bonds between the water molecules, which line up molecules less efficiently (in terms of volume) when water is frozen. The result of this is that ice floats on liquid water, an important factor in Earth's climate.
Types of ice
Everyday ice and snow is Ice Ih, or hexagonal ice. Subjected to higher pressures and varying temperatures, ice can form in roughly a dozen different phases. Only a little less stable (metastable) than Ih is cubic structure ice (Ic). But cooling Ih causes a different arrangement to form in which the protons move, XI.
With both cooling and pressure more types exist, each being created depending on the phase diagram of ice. These are II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII and X. With care all these types can be recovered at ambient pressure. The types are differentiated by their crystalline structure, ordering and density. There are also two metastable phases of ice under pressure, both fully hydrogen disordered, these are IV and XII. Ice XII was discovered in 1996. As well as crystalline forms solid water can exist in amorphous states as amorphous solid water (ASW), low density amorphous ice (LDA), high density amorphous ice (HDA), very high density amorphous ice (VHDA) and hyperquenched glassy water (HGW).
Note: In addition to these real variants of ice, a fictional "ice-nine" featured in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. Real Ice-IX does not have the properties of Vonnegut's fictional ice-nine.
Rime is a type of ice formed by fog freezing on cold objects. It contains a high proportion of trapped air, making it appear white rather than transparent, and giving it a density about one quarter of that of pure ice.
Ice can also form icicles, similar to stalactites in appearance, as water drips and re-freezes.
Clathrate hydrates are forms of ice that contain gas molecules trapped within its crystal lattice.
Ice-free harbors
For harbors near the poless, being ice-free is an important advantage, ideally all-year round. Examples are Murmansk (Russia), Petsamo (Russia, formerly Finland) and Vardø.See also - iceberg, dry ice, rusticle, crystal, properties of matter, water.
External links
- The phase diagram of water, including the ice variants
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ice."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
- ICE also stands for internal combustion engine.
The ICE (Inter-City Express) is a type of high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn AG in Germany and to neighboring countries, for example to Amsterdam, Netherlands (but not running at high speed in the Netherlands).
ICE train At both ends of the train there is a passenger compartment (on one side 1st, on the other side 2nd class) with a view on the tracks, due to transparency of the glass wall separating the compartment from the driver's cabin. In special circumstances the driver can make the wall opaque by the press of a button.
There is also a compartment with a play area for children.
equipment max. engine
powertop speed
testedtop speed
in regular serviceintroduced original ICE test configuration 361 km/h
full train 310 km/h280 km/h 1991 2nd generation (ICE2) 4.8 MW full train 310 km/h 280 km/h 1996 3rd generation (ICE3) full train 368 km/h 350 km/h in Spain
300 km/h in Germany2000 ICE-T 4.0 MW full train 253 km/h 230 km/h 1998
ICE-T train The ICE-T version, also called ICT, is a tilting train capable of running at 230 km/h on normal, pre-existing tracks.
See also TGV - Thalys - Eschede train disaster.
External links
- Siemens STS - manufacturer's site (in English)
- Italian fan site (in English)
- German fan site (in German)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ICE."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina. |
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Crosswords: Icicle |
| English words defined with "icicle": emotionless ♦ Ickle, Isicle ♦ passionless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "icicle": Belphoebe ♦ ICICLE-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "icicle": Stirious. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | S.O.S. Icicle (1933) | |
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| "Icicle 08" by Jason Krieger Commentary: "A shot of some icicles by my house." |
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William Shakespeare | You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | An icicle must have got into the works |
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| "Icicle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Icicle" is used about 16 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% | 16 | 87,710 |
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Expression using "icicle": icicle plant. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "icicle": icicle-festooned. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "icicle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hell akulli, ehull. (various references) | |
Arabic | كتلة ثلجية مدلاة, الدلاة كتلة جليد به مدلاة, شخص عديم الإ ستجابة عاطفيا. (various references) | |
Chinese | 冰柱 . (various references) | |
Czech | střechýl, rampouch. (various references) | |
Danish | istap ved lodning. (various references) | |
Dutch | ijspegel, ijskegel. (various references) | |
Farsi | یخ پاره , قندیل یخ , قله یخ , قطعه یخ . (various references) | |
Finnish | juotoskohtaan jäänyt juotepiikki, jääpuikko. (various references) | |
French | stalactite de soudure, stalactite, pointe de soudure, glaçon (block of ice, iceberg, icecube), cône de soudure. (various references) | |
German | eiszapfen (icicles), zapfen (bung, cone, draw, faucet, gudgeon, pin, pull, spigot, spigots, stopper, tap, tenon, trunnion, trunnions). (various references) | |
Greek | κρύσταλλο (crystal), κρούσταλλο, κορυφή κόλλησης, παγοκρύσταλλοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | נטיף קרח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jégcsap (needle ice). (various references) | |
Italian | ghiacciolo (ice lolly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 氷柱 (ice pillar), 氷柱 (ice pillar). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひょうちゅう (annotation, commentary, ice pillar, marginal notations, notes and comments), つらら (ice pillar). (various references) | |
Manx | rioghar, kibbin rioee, bwoid rioee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | istapp. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icicleay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sincelo, pingente de gelo, pico de solda. (various references) | |
Romanian | sloi de gheaţã (floe, iceberg, pan), persoanã insensibilã, ţurţure. (various references) | |
Russian | сосулька. (various references) | |
Scottish | clòimhein. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ledenica. (various references) | |
Spanish | carámbano. (various references) | |
Swedish | istapp. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarkıt biçimindeki buz, buz saçağı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | льодяна бурулька. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trụ băng, cột băng. (various references) | |
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| Old English | 450-1100 | hrimgicel. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "icicle": icicled, icicles. (additional references) | |
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"Icicle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acisclo, cicle, Eccle, icable, icic, Icpc, Icpic, icycle, iiijli, scicle, Scricle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "icicle" (pronounced ī"sikul) |
| 6 | ī" s i k u l | bicycle. |
| 5 | -s i k u l | classical, lexical, neoclassical, nonsensical, paradoxical, popsicle, semiclassical, tricycle. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cilice. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l" | |
-2 letters: ceil, lice. | |
-3 letters: cel, ice, lei, lie. | |
-4 letters: el, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l" | |
+1 letter: cilices, icicled, icicles. | |
+2 letters: cicelies, cleidoic, colicine, culicine, ecliptic, enclitic, leucitic, libeccio, licorice, nickelic, scilicet. | |
+3 letters: caecilian, calcified, calcifies, calcimine, cichlidae, colicines, culicines, dialectic, dicyclies, ecliptics, enclitics, epicyclic, felicific, imbecilic, libecchio, libeccios, licencing, licorices, niccolite, schlieric. | |
+4 letters: caecilians, calcimined, calcimines, celibacies, chimerical, classicize, cliometric, colchicine, conciliate, delicacies, dialectics, dickcissel, dielectric, encircling, epicuticle, epicycloid, glyceridic, indelicacy, leucocidin, libecchios, microcline, niccolites, pericyclic, recircling, semicircle, solecistic, uricotelic. | |
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