What are antonyms for glacier?
Antonyms: hot. Synonyms: polar, icy, gelid, frosty, frozen, wintry, arctic, frigid.
What is the synonym of iceberg?
iceberg.ice floe.berg.floe.icecap.glacial mass.ice field.snow slide.
What is the synonym of snow?
blizzard, sleet, snowstorm, snowfall, slush, snowbank, snowdrift, snowflake, powder snow, snow crystal, firn, graupel.
What are different names for ice?
synonyms for icechunk.crystal.diamonds.floe.glacier.glaze.hail.hailstone.More items...
What is the difference between glacier and iceberg?
Glaciers are located in the Arctic and Antarctica, with the largest glaciers appearing in Antarctica. Icebergs, on the other hand, are smaller pieces of ice that have broken off (or calved) from glaciers and now drift with the ocean currents.
What is the antonym of iceberg?
What is the opposite of iceberg?fireblazeflameinferno
What do you call a blizzard?
A severe snowstorm with high winds. snowstorm. squall. gale. tempest.
What is an idiom for snow?
a walk in the snow. be (as) pure as the driven snow. be (as) white as snow. be snowed out.
What is a lot of snow called?
A snowstorm features large amounts of snowfall. A snow flurry is snow that falls for short durations and with varying intensity; flurries usually produce little accumulation. A snow squall is a brief, but intense snowfall that greatly reduces visibility and which is often accompanied by strong winds.Jan 10, 2020
What is ice slang for?
We believe in the free flow of information Ice is a slang name for crystal methamphetamine – a stimulant drug that is swallowed, smoked or injected. Ice is also called shabu, tina, T, crystal and meth.Jul 6, 2016
What do you call a piece of ice?
iceberg. noun. a very large piece of ice floating in the sea with only a small amount of it above the surface of the water.
What do you call a chunk of ice?
Icebergs are pieces of ice that formed on land and float in an ocean or lake. Icebergs come in all shapes and sizes, from ice-cube-sized chunks to ice islands the size of a small country. The term "iceberg" refers to chunks of ice larger than 5 meters (16 feet) across.
Examples of glacier in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web Livesay hiked up to an altitude of more than 11,000 feet, to the Fellaria glacier, which feeds the lake with its runoff. — CBS News, 12 Aug.
History and Etymology for glacier
French, from Middle French dialect (Franco-Provençal), from glace ice, from Latin glacies; akin to Latin gelu frost — more at cold
Kids Definition of glacier
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What is a glacier?
glacier. [ glā ′shər ] A large mass of ice moving very slowly through a valley or spreading outward from a center. Glaciers form over many years from packed snow in areas where snow accumulates faster than it melts. A glacier is always moving, but when its forward edge melts faster than the ice behind it advances, ...
What is the meaning of "ice"?
noun. an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
WORDS RELATED TO VALLEY GLACIER
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