Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation in case of emergency
  • abbreviation internal-combustion engine

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • initialism ice, compress, elevation (first-aid)
  • initialism Institution of Civil Engineers
  • initialism internal combustion engine, internal-combustion engine
  • initialism International Cultural Exchange
  • initialism In Case of Emergency, (used in mobile phones followed by the number to call if the phone’s owner is injured).
  • initialism InterCityExpress
  • initialism in-car entertainment
  • initialism computing in-circuit emulator
  • initialism government, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement - a law-enforcement agency of the United States Federal government.
  • initialism intercontinental exchange

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Examples

  • Poker Ice Facebook application is made to be on ICE and environmental friendly.

    Elias Kai Google-Kai.com elias kai 2010

  • Oct. 26/PRNewswire/-- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Downtown Santa Monica will set the Guinness World Record for the tallest ice sculpture in the world at the opening of the ice skating rink, ICE at Santa Monica, on Tuesday, October 27,

    unknown title 2009

  • Oct. 26/PRNewswire/-- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Downtown Santa Monica will set the Guinness World Record for the tallest ice sculpture in the world at the opening of the ice skating rink, ICE at Santa Monica, on Tuesday, October 27,

    unknown title 2009

  • Enter the word ICE into your cell phone in the same way youd enter any new contact name and then enter the numbers youd want called in an emergency.

    Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009

  • “Ms. Lula Randall, a nurse at the center, informed me that we have what we call an ICE, which is an in-center emergency, and she had seen an individual and needed for me to see him also and to evaluate him and see if he needed any treatment,” Dr. Wheatley recalled.

    Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002

  • “Ms. Lula Randall, a nurse at the center, informed me that we have what we call an ICE, which is an in-center emergency, and she had seen an individual and needed for me to see him also and to evaluate him and see if he needed any treatment,” Dr. Wheatley recalled.

    Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002

  • And Kurt Vonnegut readers may find themselves associating the name "ICE" with "Ice Nine," the seemingly-safe invention in Cat's Cradle which freezes all the oceans on Earth by mistake.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Real Story or April Fool's Joke? "Anne Berkshire-Hathaway" and 6 Other Bizarre Economic Tales RJ 2011

  • And Kurt Vonnegut readers may find themselves associating the name "ICE" with "Ice Nine," the seemingly-safe invention in Cat's Cradle which freezes all the oceans on Earth by mistake.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Real Story or April Fool's Joke? "Anne Berkshire-Hathaway" and 6 Other Bizarre Economic Tales RJ 2011

  • And Kurt Vonnegut readers may find themselves associating the name "ICE" with "Ice Nine," the seemingly-safe invention in Cat's Cradle which freezes all the oceans on Earth by mistake.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com RJ 2011

  • Apparently, you can even make it so the "ICE" entries come first in your address book, by putting a space before the word ICE or numbers: "1 ICE", "2 ICE".

    Good Idea 2005

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