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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [=i]s; aksin to D.
     ijs, G. eis, OHG. [=i]s, Icel. [=i]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and
     perh. to E. iron.]
     1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state
        by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent
        colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal.
        Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C.
        being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
  
     Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
           melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
           properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
           it.
  
     2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.
  
     3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
        artificially frozen.
  
     4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
        ice.
  
     Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
        other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
        is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
  
     Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
        extensive fields which drift out to sea.
  
     Ground ice, anchor ice.
  
     Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
        Glacial.
  
     Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
        field of ice. --Kane.
  
     Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
        horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
        yet in sight.
  
     Ice boat.
        (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
            ice by sails; an ice yacht.
        (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
            
  
     Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which
        things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.
  
     Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
        --Shak.
  
     Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
        sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
  
     Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.
  
     Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to
        an ice field, but smaller.
  
     Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.
  
     Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
        
  
     Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice
        artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
        through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
        rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
  
     Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).
  
     Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
  
     Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
        reproducing; papier glac['e].
  
     Ice+petrel+(Zo["o]l.),+a+shearwater+({Puffinus+gelidus">Ice petrel (Zo["o]l.), a shearwater ({Puffinus gelidus) of
        the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
  
     Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
        pieces.
  
     Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
        course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
        also ice master.
  
     Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.
  
     Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iced ([imac]st); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Icing ([imac]"s[i^]ng).]
     1. To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something
        resembling ice.
  
     2. To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or
        white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.
  
     3. To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :


  ice
       n 1: water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in
            their drinks" [syn: water ice]
       2: the frozen part of a body of water
       3: diamonds; "look at the ice on that dame!" [syn: sparkler]
       4: a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
          [syn: frosting, icing]
       5: a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one
          containing no milk) [syn: frappe]
       6: amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride;
          used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an
          appetite suppressant [syn: methamphetamine, methamphetamine
          hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk,
           chicken feed, crank, glass, shabu, trash]
       7: a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine
          rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that
          either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine [syn: internal-combustion
          engine]
       8: a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating;
          "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice"
          [syn: ice rink, ice-skating rink]
       v 1: decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: frost]
       2: put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs"

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) :


  ice n. [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's
     cyberpunk SF novels: a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure
     Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that
     responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill
     the intruder). Hence, `icebreaker': a program designed for cracking
     security on a system.
  
     Neither term is in serious use yet as of early 2001, but many hackers
     find the metaphor attractive, and each may develop a denotation in the
     future. In the meantime, the speculative usage could be confused with
     `ICE', an acronym for "in-circuit emulator".
  
     In ironic reference to the speculative usage, however, some hackers
     and computer scientists formed ICE (International Cryptographic
     Experiment) in 1994. ICE is a consortium to promote uniform
     international access to strong cryptography.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :


  ICE
       
          1.  in-circuit emulator.
       
          2.  Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics.
       
          (2000-03-18)

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :


  Ice
     frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See CRYSTAL.)

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :


  ICE
       In-Circuit-Emulation

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :


  ICE
       Information and Content Exchange [protocol] (XML)

From eng-afr :


  ice
       ys
       ys

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary :


  Ice
  
  الثلج

From English-Croatian Freedict Dictionary :


  ice
  
  led, sladoled, smrznuti, zalediti se