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/ˈwɔːtə(r)ʌɪs/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌaɪs/, /ˈwɑdərˌaɪs/ 1. A frozen flavoured refreshment or dessert made with water and sugar, and typically no dairy ingredients.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > water-ice
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1789 F. Nutt Compl. Confectioner 128 (heading) Water ices of all sorts.
1818 Edinb. Rev. June 15 Its granular spongy texture has..the appearance of congealed syrup, or what the confectioners call water-ice.
1872 Dessert Bk. xi. 73 In preparing water ices, the chief rule is to be careful of the amount of flavoring and sweetening used.
1956 O. Welles Mr. Arkadin ii. iv. 129 She tasted her water-ice with maraschino, letting it melt slowly in her mouth.
1994 Harrowsmith Aug. 68/2 Water ices, that large family of sherbets, sorbets, sorbettos, granitas, frappés, spooms, spumas and slushes, call for combining puréed fruit (or some other flavouring) with a sugar syrup.
2. Massive ice formed directly by the freezing of water, and not by the compaction of snow. Also: ice consisting predominantly or entirely of water, rather than other substances such as frozen methane or argon (cf. also dry ice n. at dry adj. and adv. Compounds 3).
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun]
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1861 Geologist 4 413 Comets may be frozen-up worlds of water-ice and solidified air.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. ii. ii. vi. 111 Water-ice is formed, 1st, by the freezing of the surface... 2nd, by the freezing of the layer of water lying on the bottom.
1931 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 39 620 The mouth of the melt-water tunnel was plugged during the winter by a newly formed chunk of water-ice.
1989 New Scientist 29 Apr. 49/2 Astronomers had placed their bets on a Pluto composed mainly of either water ice or methane ice: but it must be made largely of rock.
2003 UFO Mag. Sept. 41/3 Phoenix which will touch down in the high northern latitudes of the Red Planet to study water-ice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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