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The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
Al Gore

Meaning of "ice cap" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ICE CAP

ice cap  [aɪs kæp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ICE CAP

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Ice cap is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ICE CAP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

ice cap

Ice cap

An ice cap is an ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area. Masses of ice covering more than 50 000 km² are termed an ice sheet. Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features. By contrast, ice masses of similar size that are constrained by topographical features are known as ice fields. The dome of an ice cap is usually centred on the highest point of a massif. Ice flows away from this high point towards the ice cap's periphery. Ice caps have significant effects on the geomorphology of the area they occupy. Plastic moulding, gouging and other glacial erosional features become present upon the glacier's retreat. Many lakes, such as the Great Lakes in North America, as well as numerous valleys have been formed by glacial action over hundreds of thousands of years. On Earth, there are about 30 million km³ of total ice mass. The average temperature of an ice mass ranges between -20°C and -30°C. The core of an ice cap exhibits a constant temperature that ranges between -15°C and -20°C.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ICE CAP


ASCAP
ˈæskæp
blackcap
ˈblækˌkæp
cap
kæp
Capp
kæp
ettercap
ˈɛtəˌkæp
handicap
ˈhændɪˌkæp
hubcap
ˈhʌbˌkæp
icecap
ˈaɪsˌkæp
kneecap
ˈniːˌkæp
madcap
ˈmædˌkæp
Mencap
ˈmɛnkæp
microcap
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌkæp
midcap
ˈmɪdˈkæp
nightcap
ˈnaɪtˌkæp
recap
ˈriːˌkæp
redcap
ˈrɛdˌkæp
snowcap
ˈsnəʊˌkæp
toecap
ˈtəʊˌkæp
uncap
ʌnˈkæp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ICE CAP

ice age
ice axe
ice bag
ice beer
Ice Blacks
ice block
ice blue
ice bridge
ice bucket
ice climber
ice climbing
ice cream
ice cube
ice dance
ice dancer
ice dancing
ice field
ice fish
ice fishing
ice floe

WORDS THAT END LIKE ICE CAP

axle cap
baseball cap
black cap
cradle cap
crown cap
distributor cap
dunce cap
filler cap
forage cap
Juliet cap
lens cap
pile cap
put on one´s thinking cap
radiator cap
screw cap
skull cap
stocking cap
swimming cap
thinking cap
watch cap

Synonyms and antonyms of ice cap in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «ice cap» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ICE CAP

Find out the translation of ice cap to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ice cap from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ice cap» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冰帽
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

capa de hielo
570 millions of speakers

English

ice cap
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बर्फ टोपी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغطاء الجليدي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ледяная шапка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

calota de gelo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বরফের টুপি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

calotte glaciaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Topi ais
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eiskappe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

氷帽
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

만년설
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Es tutup
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chỏm băng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூடு பனி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बर्फाच झाकण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

buz örtüsü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calotta di ghiaccio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pokrywa lodowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

крижана шапка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

capac gheață
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κάλυμμα πάγου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ys cap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

istäcke
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

iskappen
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ice cap

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QUOTES WITH «ICE CAP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ice cap.
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Al Gore
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ICE CAP»

Discover the use of ice cap in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ice cap and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap, Iceland: Glacial Processes, ...
The book reviews the following themes related to Mýrdalsjökull: glaciology, glacial and quaternary geology, sedimentology, tephrochronology and eruption history of Katla, and crustal movements.
‎2009
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Ice Cap: A Mystery
Ice Cap marks the return of Jackie Swaitkowski, outlandish lawyer to the rich and criminal, by award-winning author Chris Knopf, who’s been praised by Publishers Weekly for his “hard-boiled dialogue worthy of Elmore Leonard or John D. ...
Chris Knopf, 2012
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The Hans Tausen Ice Cap
For temperatures 5 K warmer than now and a 20% increase of accumulation per degree warming (a scenario for the Holocene climatic optimum), there is a significant mass loss even from the highest elevated areas of the ice cap. The total ...
Claus Uffe Hammer, 2001
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Exploring High-albedo Event Craters in the Near-polar ...
The authors proposed a 4-phase model, based on PM temperature changes, to describe the carbon dioxide and water-ice cycle in the Martian northern seasonal polar ice cap (Figure 1). Phase 1 begins at the beginning of the solar year and ...
Misti Autumn Thueson, 2008
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The Ice Cap and the Rift
Marshall Chamberlain. and the other had descended the ladder and was walking toward the restrooms outside the building. Mohari's uniform had the same identifying patch as most of the Defense Force mechanics setting up equipment and ...
Marshall Chamberlain, 2008
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Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers
The second-largest ice cap in Greenland, Julianehåb Ice Cap (6,500 km2), is confluent with the southern part of the GIS. The delineation between Julianehåb Ice Cap and the GIS is generally defined by the ice stream Qorqup Sermia draining ...
Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, 2011
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The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
See also antarctic ice cap or sheet. continental ice cap or sheet. East Antarctic ice sheet. inland ice sheet. polar ice cap. West Antarctic ice sheet 1875 Isource: NOEDI Croll Climate and T. App: 543. iTol cover the antarctic regions with an ...
Bernadette Hince, 2000
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
... analysis and developing bore-hole instrumentation methods. The deep-core drilling in ice program was initiated in Greenland during pre-IGY activities and was extended to Antarctica. 62 Drilling Through the Ice Cap: Probing Climate for a.
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Encyclopedia of the Arctic
Commonly, the ice is thickest at the center of each dome and it becomes thinner toward the edges of an ice cap, except for ice flowing into deep, marginal valleys. The ice flows radially away from a dome center and each ice cap forms ice ...
Mark Nuttall, 2012
10
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
ice-cap. The polar situation of the continent might be unfavourable to earthquake activity if it were true that forces associated with the Earth s rotation were a factor in generating earthquakes. This possibility seems to be disposed of, however, ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ICE CAP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ice cap is used in the context of the following news items.
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Scientists are speculating that Charon's dark spot is ice from Pluto …
Scientists are also puzzled about the diversity of Pluto's surface. The area of its polar ice cap looks pretty similar to the left side of Pluto's heart, ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
2
The Ice of Pluto is More Diverse Than We Realized - Space - io9
New Horizons scientist Will Grundy describes the north polar region, confirmed as an ice cap just days ago, as an uneven mix of methane and ... «io9, Jul 15»
3
10 Images Show What Coastal Cities Will Look Like After Sea …
Researchers looked at three decades' worth of data on ice cap oxygen levels, then analyzed it to determine how varying amounts of CO2 in the ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
4
The Arctic Domain: A Narrow Niche For Joint Special Operations …
The melting of the ice cap has led to speculation that new economic opportunities are opening in a region that has been frozen for centuries. «Eurasia Review, Jul 15»
5
U.K. Study: Solar Cycles Affect Global Temps; Cooling in 2020s
It will be remembered that in 2009, Gore incredibly predicted that “the entire north polar ice cap” would disappear during the summer months ... «The New American, Jul 15»
6
Beyond Pluto: New Horizons' mission is not over yet
We also found that Europa hosts a salty ocean, buried beneath a thick ice cap. Both of these findings were utterly unexpected. At Saturn, we ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
7
Navy Arctic UFO photos allegedly leaked by anonymous source …
... this on the site Hullnumber.com: “From 22 February to 22 March [1971], the nuclear attack submarine operated beneath the northern ice cap, ... «Open Minds UFO News, Jul 15»
8
Amputee explorer pays visit to Ogmore Vale Primary to meet the …
A veteran soldier who became the first amputee to cross the Greenland Ice Cap has visited a group of schoolchildren he inspired in to action. «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
9
Beyond Pluto—New Horizons' mission is not over yet - Phys.org
We also found that Europa hosts a salty ocean, buried beneath a thick ice cap. Both of these findings were utterly unexpected. At Saturn, we ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
10
Global Warming Is Causing Rain to Melt the Greenland Ice Sheet
These photographs show experimental drilling on the Greenland Ice Cap in summer 2005. (images: Reto Stöckli/NASA GSFC). Even given ... «AlterNet, Jul 15»

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