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Definition of ice floe noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
(Definition of ice floe from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
29 wrz 2024 · noun. : a usually large flat free mass of floating sea ice. Examples of ice floe in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web But through his Grand Ole Opry inflection constantly surfaces, like ice floes, the precision of Academe. Tom Burke, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024 On July 31, 18 runners completed the marathon on an ice floe.
An ice floe converging toward another and pushing against it will generate a state of " compression" at the boundary between both.
Examples of ice floe. A polar bear stands on a melting ice floe on a summer evening. In another, the penguin's head is seen in the foreground as it bobs at the surface, a gleaming ice floe looming up ahead. He moved on to the great ice floe in the sky in 2011.
ice floe (plural ice floes) Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice. An ice dam , a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river. An ice stream , a type of fast moving glacier; A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.
What does the noun ice floe mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun ice floe . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
