資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [=i]s; aksin to D.
   ijs, G. eis, OHG. [=i]s, Icel. [=i]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and
   perh. to E. iron.]
   1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state
      by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent
      colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal.
      Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C.
      being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

   Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
         melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
         properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
         it.

   2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.

   3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
      artificially frozen.

   4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
      ice.

   {Anchor ice}, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
      other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
      is thus attached or anchored to the ground.

   {Bay ice}, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
      extensive fields which drift out to sea.

   {Ground ice}, anchor ice.

   {Ice age} (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
      {Glacial}.

   {Ice anchor} (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
      field of ice. --Kane.

   {Ice blink} [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
      horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
      yet in sight.

   {Ice boat}.
      (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
          ice by sails; an ice yacht.
      (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
          

   {Ice box} or {chest}, a box for holding ice; a box in which
      things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.

   {Ice brook}, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
      --Shak.

   {Ice cream} [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
      sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

   {Ice field}, an extensive sheet of ice.

   {Ice float}, {Ice floe}, a sheet of floating ice similar to
      an ice field, but smaller.

   {Ice foot}, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.

   {Ice house}, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
      

   {Ice machine} (Physics), a machine for making ice
      artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
      through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
      rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

   {Ice master}. See {Ice pilot} (below).

   {Ice pack}, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.

   {Ice paper}, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
      reproducing; papier glac['e].

   {Ice petrel} (Zo["o]l.), a shearwater ({Puffinus gelidus}) of
      the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.

   {Ice pick}, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
      pieces.

   {Ice pilot}, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
      course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
      also {ice master}.

   {Ice pitcher}, a pitcher adapted for ice water.

   {Ice plow}, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.

資料來源 : WordNet®

ice field
     n : a large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating
         at sea