different between ice vs tortoise

English

Etymology

From Middle English is, from Old English ?s (“ice”), from Proto-Germanic *?s? (compare West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian is), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyH-. Compare Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian ????? (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian ?? (ix), ?? (ex, “ice”), Persian ??? (yax), Northern Kurdish qe?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /a?s/
• (Canada, many US accents) IPA^(key): [??s]
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

ice (countable and uncountable, plural ices)

1. (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
   • 1882, Popular Science Monthly (volume 20), "The Freezing of a Salt Lake"

     It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.
2. (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
3. (uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form.
4. (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
5. (Britain, countable, dated) An ice cream.
6. (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
7. (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds and jewelry.
8. (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
9. (uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
   • 2006, CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,

     The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice. They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.

10. (slang) Money paid as a bribe.
    • 1960, United States. Congress, Congressional Record

      Theater operators, theater party agents, playwrights, and others who have ready access to tickets may get in on the “ice” and sometimes the producer is in on it too.

    • 1970, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates

      This “ice” is bribe money paid to public officials to purchase protection for illegal activities. […] Just consider the “ice” money available to the men involved in the examples just cited.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Tokelauan: aiha

Translations

See ice/translations § Noun.

Verb

ice (third-person singular simple present ices, present participle icing, simple past and past participle iced)

1. (transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage.
   • 2008, Deirdre Pitney, Donna Dourney, Triathlon Training For Dummies (page 240)

     To treat runner's knee, you need to rest from running or any other high-impact activity, ice the knee, and strengthen the quadriceps through weight training.

2. (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
3. (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
4. (transitive, slang) To murder.
5. (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
6. (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.

   Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season

7. (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

   If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Ice”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “ice”, in Mindat.org?^[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• ice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CEI, EIC, IEC

Hausa

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Saharan language; compare Dazaga idi.

Noun

ic? m (possessed form icèn)

1. wood
2. tree
3. stick

Latin

Verb

?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?ci?

Manchu

Romanization

ice

1. Romanization of ???

Middle English

Noun

ice (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of is (“ice”)

Portuguese

Verb

ice

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of içar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of içar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of içar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of içar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?i?e/, [?i.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?ise/, [?i.se]
• Homophone: hice

Verb

ice

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of izar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of izar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of izar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English tortuse, tortuce, tortuge, from Medieval Latin tortuca, of uncertain origin. May be from Late Latin tartar?cha, from tartar?chus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (tartaroûkhos, “holder of Tartaros, Tartarus, the land of the dead in ancient stories”), because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld and they were commonly paired with such infernal beasts; or from Latin tortus (“twisted”). Displaced native Old English byrdling.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t???.t?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?s/
  • (UK, also) IPA^(key): /?t???t??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?s

Noun

tortoise (plural tortoises)

1. Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

   Synonym: (obsolete) shellpad

Usage notes

Differences exist in usage of the common terms turtle, tortoise, and terrapin, depending on the variety of English being used. In American usage, turtle is often a general term; tortoise is used only in reference to terrestrial turtles or, more narrowly, only those members of Testudinidae, the family of modern land tortoises; and terrapin may refer to turtles that are small and live in fresh and brackish water.

British and Commonwealth usage, by contrast, tends not to use turtle as a generic term for all members of the order but instead as a synonym for sea turtle specifically, and also applies the term tortoises broadly to all land-dwelling members of the order Testudines, regardless of whether they are actually members of the family Testudinidae.

Land tortoises are not native to Australia, yet traditionally freshwater turtles have been called tortoises in Australia.

Derived terms

• pancake tortoise
• tortoise-like, tortoiselike
• tortoise shell, tortoise-shell

Translations

See also

• terrapin
• turtle

Further reading

• tortoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rootiest