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Icing vs Dicing - What's the difference?

icing | dicing |

As nouns the difference between icing and dicing

is that icing is a sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting while dicing is a game of dice.

As verbs the difference between icing and dicing

is that icing is present participle of lang=en while dicing is present participle of lang=en.

icing

English

Etymology 1

Gerund of the verb . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
  • (ice hockey) A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
  • The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
    • Derived terms
    * butter icing * water icing

    Etymology 2

    From the verb .

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    dicing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • Over the course of two sweltering days of rambling the West Bank, we squeeze through a thicket of visible and imaginary borders, fences, walls, frontiers, barriers, no-go zones. After a year steeped in the oceanic vistas of Arabia, of Africa, such a dicing of landscape into countless micro-turfs makes me dizzy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A game of dice.
  • A fragment of diced food.
    • bacon dicings