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Blue ice
Ice that is blue in colour, formed by compressed snow on a glacier having its air bubbles squeezed out.
📖 Definitions of "Blue ice"
noun
- 1
Ice that is blue in colour, formed by compressed snow on a glacier having its air bubbles squeezed out.
- 2
Human waste that has leaked from an aircraft, frozen at high altitude, and fallen to earth.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Blue ice"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| blue icebergnoun | An iceberg which has rotated or flipped to expose its previously submerged side, thus having a smooth texture and a bluish hue. |
| black icenoun | A smooth, barely visible, and dangerously slippery film of ice, usually over a dark surface, such as rock or pavement. |
| field icenoun | ice formed in the polar seas in large surfaces, distinguished from icebergs |
| iceballnoun | A snack consisting of a ball of shaved ice with syrup. |
| snicenoun | (rare) Frozen water with physical characteristics intermediate between snow and ice, especially when used in constructing buildings (such as ice hotels) out of ice. |
| iceblinknoun | A glare in the sky caused by reflection of light from an ice field. |
| shell icenoun | (glaciology, oceanography) A form of ice which is no longer supported by the water beneath it, and instead has a cavity underneath. |
| pack icenoun | A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice. |
| trash icenoun | (uncommon) Crumbled ice mixed with water. |
| slob icenoun | Slushy sea ice. |
| snownoun | (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer. |
| gletcher icenoun | A type of floating ice formed from precipitation. |
| needle icenoun | Needle-shaped columns of ice formed from groundwater by capillary action when the soil's surface temperature is above freezing and the air's surface temperature is below freezing. |
| rimenoun | Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1). |
| clear icenoun | (literally) Ice that is clear, that is, free from visible imperfections. |
| acid snownoun | Snow that is unusually acidic, caused by atmospheric pollution etc. |
| dead icenoun | Former glacier ice that is no longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving, and becoming covered with sediments. |
| ice-floatnoun | An icefloe. |
| ice floenoun | Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice. |
| ice fognoun | A dense fog that consists of fine particles of ice. |
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