different between icy vs polar

English

Alternative forms

• icey (rare)
• ycie (obsolete)

Etymology

ice +? -y; cf. Old English ?si?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?si/

Adjective

icy (comparative icier, superlative iciest)

1. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
2. Covered with ice, wholly or partially.
3. Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.
   • 2009, Sharon Kendrick, The Desert Princes Bundle: The Sheikh's English Bride

     Gone was the gleam of desire, and the teasingly provocative remarks, and Alexa realised the truth in the saying that indifference was death. His demeanour was haughty and icy towards her.

4. (US, slang) To be wearing an excessive amount of jewelry, especially of the high-quality and expensive kind.

Related terms

• icily
• iciness

Translations

References

• icy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• icy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• CyI

Middle French

Adverb

icy

1. here

Descendants

• French: ici

English

Etymology

From Late Latin pol?ris , equivalent to pole + -ar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???l?(?)/, [?p????l?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?po??l?/, [?p?o??l?]
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Adjective

polar (not comparable)

1. Of or having a pole or polarity.
2. (geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
3. (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
4. (chemistry) Having a dipole; ionic.
5. (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
6. (linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes and no.

Derived terms

• polar bear
• polar nucleus
• polar opposite

Translations

Noun

polar (plural polars)

1. (geometry) The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line.

Anagrams

• ROLAP, parol, poral

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /po?la/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pu?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /po?la?/

Adjective

polar (masculine and feminine plural polars)

1. polar

Derived terms

• ós polar

French

Etymology

From policier +? -ard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.la?/

Noun

polar m (plural polars)

1. (informal) detective novel

Further reading

• “polar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Pronunciation

Adjective

polar m or f (plural polares)

1. polar

Antonyms

• apolar

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?la???/

Adjective

polar (not comparable)

1. polar

Declension

Derived terms

• Polarmeer
• Polarnacht

Further reading

• “polar” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun pol

Pronunciation

Adjective

polar (neuter singular polart, definite singular and plural polare)

1. polar

Derived terms

• polarisere
• polarsirkel

References

• “polar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From the noun pol

Adjective

polar (neuter singular polart, definite singular and plural polare)

1. polar

Derived terms

• polarisere
• polarsirkel

Etymology 2

Noun

polar m

1. indefinite plural of pol

References

• “polar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pol?ris, Italian polare and French polaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?lar/

Adjective

polar m or n (feminine singular polar?, masculine plural polari, feminine and neuter plural polare)

1. polar

Declension

Derived terms

• urs polar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?la?/, [po?la?]
• Hyphenation: po?lar

Adjective

polar (plural polares)

1. polar

Derived terms

• apolar
• casquete polar
• estrella polar
• oso polar
• polaridad

Related terms

• polo

Further reading

• “polar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.