Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An extensive dome-shaped or platelike perennial cover of ice and snow that spreads out from a center and covers a large area, especially of land.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A general or continuous permanent covering of a certain area of land, whether large or small, with snow, névé, or ice, especially in the arctic regions. The continuous covering with snow and névé of the higher and larger part of Greenland is sometimes called the ice-cap, but more generally the inland ice.
- n. In therapeutics, a rubber bag containing ice for application to the head.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)
- n. a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)
Examples
“Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year.”
“We are given to believe that the polar icecap is receding, but if the polar icecap was receding August in our part of the world would be hot and dry as when the icecap receded, westerlies would move northward and high pressure systems from the south predominate.”
“The icecap is a vast area of white wilderness, unspoiled and unknown, inhabited by polar bears and seals.”
“In fact, they'll be seeing the southern polar icecap, the permanent icecap, which is capped by this frozen dry ice stuff.”
“Antarctic icecap which is, for the most part, frozen determinedly rigid, Greenland in summer sits poised on the knife-edge between liquid and solid, a world of blues and whites, a landscape which in summer melts into fantastical sculptures which can last no longer than an afternoon.”
“Rely on the journal articles, not on the 'icecap' blog, for credible information you can check for yourself.”
“Let's face it, a lot of that newspaper 'icecap' has melted. ”
“The old one didn't have an icecap either. blackcat77”
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“The analysis of Greenland icecap is not a unique case - the forecast can be applied to all of the icecaps and glaziers throughout the world see textbox.”
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Ice Ice Baby
Geographical and weather-related ice formations and phenomena.
frazil, shuga, grease, brash, ice cake, finger rafting, lead, polynya, sea ice, pack ice, ice-blink, ice scour and 88 more...
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