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icy | American Dictionary

icy
adjective
us/ˈɑɪ·si/

icyadjective (UNFRIENDLY)

unfriendly and showing dislike:
an icy stare

icyadjective (FROZEN WATER)

covered with ice:
an icy sidewalk
Icy also means extremely cold, like ice:
icy winds

Examples of icy

icy
In a departure from the previous book, there is no discussion of icy volcanism (cryovolcanism) on other outer planet satellites.
The weather forecast, broadcast on television, warns the motorist to beware of heavy rain, fog or icy patches on roads.
Subsurface environments may be more common on rocky, terrestrial and icy planets than we have thought in the past.
Some giant planets might also form in this way, while others may form from an initial icy-rocky kernel and a subsequent gas capture process.
The attraction of any icy beginning is obvious, even if heterodox.
At the same time, he had to monitor fashion changes, lest he become old-fashioned and dowdy instead of an unapproachable, icy ideal.
Menacing mechanical figurations are frozen by the icy stasis of the grieving central section.
A search strategy therefore must identify sites where the habitats have been transported to and incorporated into the icy crust and exposed at the surface.
If they were preserved over geologic time, a record of past and present life may reside in the icy crust.
These models can almost certainly be applied to the evolution of icy satellites as well.
Thus, endogenic sulphur and other chemical elements will be, at any time, found on the icy surface of the dry valley lakes.
Dust grains in dense molecular clouds of the interstellar medium acquire icy mantles, and can be subsequently incorporated into comets.
Survivability of bacteria ejected from icy surfaces after hypervelocity impact.
The formation of polypeptides from single aminoacids was traced in simulation experiments representing the inner structure of icy dust grains.
When the icy cold comes to the one who can endure being out?
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