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Definition of Ice over
1. Verb. Become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window. "When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane"
Definition of Ice over
1. Verb. (intransitive) To become covered in ice, usually of a body of water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Over
Literary usage of Ice over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A result of this last process is that fissures arc not permanent, but having been
produced by the passage of ice over an obstruction, they subsequently ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A result of this last process is that fissures are not permanent, but having been
produced by the passage of ice over an obstruction, they subsequently ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"All of the rats learned to eat the ice over the 3 days. ... The anemic animals
continued to show a preference for ice over water (Fig. 1). ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1884)
"I did not use ice over the cervical and upper dorsal region, for the head was
hot and congested, and the ice placed over the sympathetic centres in this ..."
5. The Ice Age in North America: And Its Bearings Upon the Antiquity of Man by George Frederick Wright (1911)
"... scarcely solidified" sediments over this vast region bear slight evidence of
any such great change in elevation. The great depth of the ice over ..."
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