单词 | winter ice |
释义 | > as lemmaswinter ice winter ice n. ice formed in the winter; (in later use) spec. (chiefly North American) level sea ice less than one year old and more than eight inches (20.3 cm) thick. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. xvi. D Ye hope of ye vnthankfull shal melt awaie as the wynter yse [Ger. wie ein reiffe ym winter]. 1638 J. Ballard Hist. Susanna xi. sig. G4 Dissolving like to winter-Ice before The Summers Sun-beams. 1797 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 6 52 Particular instances where the defect of summer heat and winter ice seem to be most strongly marked. 1859 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 3 66 The winter ice, which forms in the rivers, compelled her [sc. a steamer] to start for Mia-tao Strait. 1958 G. Teleki in Proc. Conf. Arctic Sea Ice (Nat. Acad. Sci. Publ. 598) 78/2 Polar ice can be separated from winter ice, and different kinds of ice can be distinguished. 2016 Newsweek (Nexis) 15 Apr. 1 They'll arrive at a spot in the northern latitudes in a warmer month and let the winter ice freeze around them. < as lemmas |
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