WATER ICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water ice mean? 

• WATER ICE (noun)
  The noun WATER ICE has 2 senses:

1. water frozen in the solid state

2. an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice

  Familiarity information: WATER ICE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER ICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water frozen in the solid state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

ice; water ice

Context example:

Americans like ice in their drinks

Hypernyms ("water ice" is a kind of...):

crystal (a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure)

Meronyms (substance of "water ice"):

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water ice"):

black ice (a thin coating of ice (as from freezing mist) on a road or sidewalk; nearly invisible but very hazardous)

frost; hoar; hoarfrost; rime (ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside))

hailstone (small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm)

icicle (ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water)

Holonyms ("water ice" is a substance of...):

ice cube (a small cube of artificial ice; used for cooling drinks)

glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

sorbet; water ice

Hypernyms ("water ice" is a kind of...):

frappe; ice (a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk))

 Context examples 

Water ice isn't expected to be stable at any depth in that area today and any ice deposited there should be long gone.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

A new study will help by providing a map of water ice believed to be as little as an inch (2.5 centimeters) below the surface.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

Mercury’s polar deposits are dominantly composed of water ice and extensively distributed in both Mercury’s north and south polar regions.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

The floors and terrain between craters show signs of water ice, colored in blue.

(Pluto’s ‘Halo’ Craters, NASA)

A curious aspect of the detection is that the areas showing the most obvious water ice spectral signatures correspond to areas that are bright red in recently released color images.

(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)

As NASA's Dawn spacecraft continues exploring Ceres, evidence mounts that the enigmatic dwarf planet retains a significant amount of water ice.

(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)

In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface.

(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)

Saturn’s rings are mostly chunks of water ice ranging in size from microscopic dust grains to boulders several yards (meters) across.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

This suggests that water ice can be stored in cold, dark craters on Ceres.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)

This is the signature of the water ice that forms most of the moon's surface.

(Regarding Rhea, NASA)