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Definition of Icelike
1. resembling ice [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icelike
Literary usage of Icelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"Therefore, the freezing of part of the bound water must be preceded by rearrangement
of its structure into an icelike structure.21 Since time is needed for ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"It does not necessarily follow, however, that the interstitial model favored by
these interpretations must be exactly icelike in the details of its ..."
3. Oceana, Or, England and Her Colonies by James Anthony Froude (1887)
"The crystallisation is icelike, and the phenomenon, except for the alternate
horizontal and vertical arrangement of the deposited silica, is like what would ..."
4. Opportunity 2000: Creative Affirmative Action Strategies for a Changing (1988)
"Gas hydrates are an icelike mixture of gas and water, called a clathrate, which
forms under certain temperature and pressure conditions often found in water ..."
5. Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"... but I would be deeply content in such a night as this to stroll with William
Blake himself, and hear him speak of the icelike Yuccas. ..."
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