Icy vs. Ice — What's the Difference?

Covered with or consisting of ice

Ice is water frozen into a solid state. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color.

Containing or covered with ice

An entry stored in a person's mobile phone that provides emergency contact information

Bitterly cold; freezing

Decorate (a cake or biscuit) with icing.

Unfriendly or hostile

Clinch (something such as a victory or deal).

Showing no emotion

Kill

Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.

Water frozen solid.

Covered with ice, wholly or partially.

A surface, layer, or mass of frozen water.

Characterized by coldness of manner; frigid; cold.

Something resembling frozen water

Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.

A frozen dessert consisting of water, sugar, and a liquid flavoring, often fruit juice.

Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

Cake frosting; icing.

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain;

(Slang) Diamonds.

Extremely cold;

(Sports) The playing field in ice hockey; the rink.

Covered with or containing or consisting of ice;

Extreme unfriendliness or reserve.

Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice;

(Slang) A payment over the listed price of a ticket for a public event.

(Slang) Methamphetamine.

To coat or slick with solidly frozen water.

To cause to become ice; freeze.

To chill by setting in or as if in ice.

To cover or decorate (a cake, for example) with a sugar coating.

(Slang) To ensure of victory, as in a game; clinch.

(Sports) To shoot (the puck) from one's defensive half of an ice hockey rink across the opponent's goal line outside of the goal.

(Slang) To kill; murder.

To turn into or become coated with ice; freeze

(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.

Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.

Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.

(countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.

An ice cream.

(uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.

One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds.

Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.

The area where a game of ice hockey is played.

Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.

An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.

(slang) Money paid as a bribe.

(transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage.

(intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.

(transitive) To make icy; to freeze.

To murder.

(transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.

(ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.

(ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

Concreted sugar.

Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.

To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

Water frozen in the solid state;

The frozen part of a body of water

Diamonds;

A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes

A frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine

A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating;

Decorate with frosting;

Put ice on or put on ice;