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ground ice

ground ice

noun

  1. sea ice that is in contact with the coast or sea bed and thus not floating freely
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ground ice1

First recorded in 1685–95
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Example Sentences

The flood may have stimulated subsidence by warming the ground, causing ground ice to melt, the authors state.

"We interpret the subsidence that we observed with remote sensing to be largely due to melting of ground ice," Zwieback said.

It’s gonna drip down, down on the ground, ice cone.

It had been icy that morning, but the sun had come out, softening the ground ice into mush.

Albence said that, unlike the Border Patrol facilities where children lacked toothbrushes and were photographed sleeping on the ground, ICE’s family residential centers give children and parents three hot meals a day and access to a wide array of services, including a 24-hour infirmary, a day care, a library with Internet and email access, a beauty salon, a charter school and a canteen.

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