Freezing vs Icey - What's the difference?
freezing | icey |
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
* 1829 , James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York
(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
As adjectives the difference between freezing and icey
is that freezing is (literally) suffering or causing frost while icey is (rare).As a noun freezing
is (uncountable|physics|chemistry) the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.As a verb freezing
is .freezing
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* (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icyNoun
(wikipedia freezing)- Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings . The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
