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say it: ahys
ice is a noun and verb meaning "water frozen in the solid state". It is pronounced /ˈaɪs/ — ahys. It carries 11 recorded senses.
a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)
an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine
a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
“the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.