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As nouns the difference between ice and wind

is that ice is while wind is wind; movement of air usually caused by convection or differences of air pressure.

ice

English

Noun

(wikipedia ice)
  • (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
  • * 1882 , Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, The Freezing of a Salt Lake
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
  • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) 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.}}
  • (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.
  • * 2006 , CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
  • 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 ice

    Verb

    (ic)
  • 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.
  • Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
  • (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
  • If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.

    Derived terms

    * ice over * ice up

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    wind

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) ; ultimately probably cognate with (weather).

    Noun

    (Beaufort scale)
  • (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind , can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
  • Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
  • (countable, uncountable) The ability to exert oneself without feeling short of breath.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
  • news of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip - used with catch often in past tense
  • (India, and, Japan) One of the five basic elements (see ).
  • (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
  • Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  • * (John Dryden)
  • Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind .
  • A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
  • * Bible, (Ezekiel) xxxvii. 9
  • Come from the four winds , O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  • Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  • * (John Milton)
  • Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.
  • A bird, the dotterel.
  • Synonyms
    * (movement of air) breeze, draft, gale; see also * (flatus) gas (US); see also
    Derived terms
    * break wind * close to the wind * crosswind * downwind * fair wind * foul wind * get one's wind back * get the wind up * get wind of * headwind * like the wind * long-winded * pass wind * sail close to the wind * scattered to the four winds * second wind * see which way the wind is blowing * sow the wind and reap the whirlwind * tailwind * the winds * trade wind * take the wind out of someone's sails * three sheets to the wind * throw caution to the wind * throw to the wind * twist in the wind * upwind * whirlwind * willow in the wind * windbag * wind band * wind-blown * windboard * windbound * wind-break, windbreak * windbreaker * wind-breaker * windburn * wind chart * wind-cheater, windcheater * windchill * wind chimes * wind cone, windcone * wind egg * windfall * wind farm * windflaw * wind force * wind-gauge * wind gun * wind instrument * windily * windiness * windjammer * windless * windmill * window * windpipe * wind power * wind rose * wind scale * windscreen * wind shake * windshield * wind sleeve, windsleeve * wind sock, windsock * winds of change * windstorm * windsurf * windsurfer * windsurfing * wind-swept, windswept * wind tunnel * windward * windy
    See also
    * blizzard * breeze * cyclone * gale * gust * hurricane * nor'easter, northeaster * northwester * sou'easter, southeaster * sou'wester, southwester * storm * tempest * tornado * twister * typhoon * zephyr

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
  • *
  • To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
  • The boxer was winded during round two.
  • (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
  • I can’t run another step — I’m winded .
  • (British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
  • To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  • To perceive or follow by scent.
  • The hounds winded the game.
  • To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), . Compare West Frisian (m), Low German (m), Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m). See also the related term (m).

    Verb

  • (lb) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • (lb) To tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
  • :
  • To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
  • (lb) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
  • :
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path whichwinded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.
  • *(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
  • *:The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • *1969 , (Paul McCartney)
  • *:The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
  • To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
  • * (1591-1674)
  • *:Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
  • To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:You have contrivedto wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.
  • *Government of Tongues
  • *:little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse
  • To cover or surround with something coiled about.
  • :
  • Derived terms
    * rewind * unwind * wind down * wind somebody round one's finger * wind up * windable * winder * winding * windlass * wind-up

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