📖 Definitions of "Icicle"
noun
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A drooping, tapering shape of ice.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Icicle"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| bundlenoun | (countable) A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying. |
| stillicidenoun | Water falling in drops, especially in a row from the eaves of a roof, or from icicles or stalactites. |
| hair icenoun | A type of ice resembling fine, silky hair, forming on dead wood in the presence of certain fungi. |
| iceballnoun | A snack consisting of a ball of shaved ice with syrup. |
| gletcher icenoun | A type of floating ice formed from precipitation. |
| icefallnoun | A relatively rapid and turbulent flow of ice, somewhat analogous to a waterfall. |
| ice feathernoun | An unusual feather-like form assumed by ice at the summits of mountains. |
| rimenoun | Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1). |
| thaw-dropnoun | A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice. |
| ice stormnoun | A storm in which rain freezes on contact with the ground to form a sheet of ice. |
| ice needlenoun | a small crystal of ice floating in the high atmosphere; a constituent of snow mist |
| icestormnoun | Alternative form of ice storm. [A storm in which rain freezes on contact with the ground to form a sheet of ice.] |
| sleetnoun | (chiefly UK, Ireland, Northeastern US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow. |
| ice discnoun | Synonym of ice circle. |
| icebownoun | An atmospheric phenomenon resembling a rainbow but associated with ice crystals. |
| iglunoun | Archaic form of igloo. [A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.] |
| ice tonguenoun | (geology, glaciology) A long, narrow sheet of ice projecting out from a coastline, forming when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into a body of water. |
| hummocknoun | A small hill; a hillock; a knoll. |
| 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. |
| trash icenoun | (uncommon) Crumbled ice mixed with water. |
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