Ice vs Leaf - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
* 1882 , Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, The Freezing of a Salt Lake
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(uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
(uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form.
(countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
(uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
(uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
(uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of methamphetamine.
(uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
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To cool with ice, as a beverage.
To become ice, to freeze.
(slang): To murder.
To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
(ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
(ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
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A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
(in the plural) Tea leaves.
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
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The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
As nouns the difference between ice and leaf
is that ice is while leaf is the usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.As a verb leaf is
to produce leaves; put forth foliage.ice
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Noun
(wikipedia ice)- It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.
citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice . They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.
Derived terms
* anchor ice * arena ice * black ice * brash ice * break the ice * choc ice * cold as ice * cut no ice * de-ice * dead ice * drift ice * dry ice * ice age * ice ax * ice axe * ice bag * ice barrier * ice bath * ice bear * ice blue * ice boat * ice breaker * ice bucket * ice cap / icecap * ice chest * ice cider * ice-cold * ice cream * ice cube * ice dam * ice dancing * ice diving * ice dwarf * icedrop * ice field * ice fish * ice fishing * ice floe * ice fog * ice foot * ice fractal * ice hockey * ice jam * ice kachang * ice lolly * ice luge * ice milk * ice needle * ice nucleus * ice-out * ice pack * ice palace * ice pellet * ice pick * ice plant * ice point * ice pop * ice queen * ice racing * ice resurfacer * ice rink * ice scour * ice scraper * ice sculpture * ice sheet * ice shelf * ice show * ice skate * ice skating * ice storm * ice water * ice wedge * ice wine * ice worm * ice yacht * ice yachting * iceball * iceberg * iceblink * iceblock * icebound * icefall * icehouse * iceless * icelike * icemaker * iceman * icemelt * icequake * icescape * iceteroid * icetray * iceward * iceways * icy * Italian ice * negative ice * on thin ice * pack ice * pancake ice * polar ice * sea ice * sell ice to Eskimos * slob ice * spin ice * stink on ice * water iceVerb
(ic)- Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
- If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.
Derived terms
* ice over * ice upAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----leaf
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Noun
(leaves)William E. Conner
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- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf ).