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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ICE SHELF

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Ice shelf is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ICE SHELF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Ice shelf

An ice shelf is a thick floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland and Canada. The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded ice that feeds it is called the grounding line. The thickness of ice shelves ranges from about 100 to 1000 meters. In contrast, sea ice is formed on water, is much thinner, and forms throughout the Arctic Ocean. It also is found in the Southern Ocean around the continent of Antarctica. Ice shelves are principally driven by gravity-driven pressure from the grounded ice. That flow continually moves ice from the grounding line to the seaward front of the shelf. The primary mechanism of mass loss from ice shelves was thought to have been iceberg calving, in which a chunk of ice breaks off from the seaward front of the shelf. A study by NASA and university researchers - published in the June 14, 2013 issue of Science - found however that ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss.

Definition of ice shelf in the English dictionary

The definition of ice shelf in the dictionary is a thick mass of ice that is permanently attached to the land but projects into and floats on the sea.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ICE SHELF

ice man
ice needle
ice pack
ice pick
ice piton
ice plant
ice point
ice rink
ice road
ice screw
ice sheet
ice show
ice skate
ice skater
ice station
ice storm
ice tongs
ice tray
ice water
ice yacht

WORDS THAT END LIKE ICE SHELF

bookshelf
continental shelf
ice-shelf
mantel shelf
off the shelf
off-the-shelf
on the shelf
parcel shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
shelf
top-shelf

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

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Translation of «ice shelf» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ICE SHELF

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The translations of ice shelf 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 shelf» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冰架
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

plataforma de hielo
570 millions of speakers

English

ice shelf
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बर्फ शेल्फ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجرف الجليدي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шельфовый ледник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

plataforma de gelo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বরফ বালুচর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plateau de glace
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rak ais
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schelfeis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

棚氷
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빙붕
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Panci es
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tảng băng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பனி அலமாரியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बर्फ शेल्फ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Buz rafı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

piattaforma di ghiaccio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

półka lodu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шельфовий льодовик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

raft de gheață
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κρηπίδα πάγου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ysbank
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

ice shelf
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

isbremmen
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ICE SHELF»

The term «ice shelf» is regularly used and occupies the 62.613 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ICE SHELF» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ICE SHELF»

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An Analysis of the Ross Ice Shelf Low-level Wind Field Using ...
Dominant Wind Regimes of the Ross Ice Shelf Surface Wind Field 1. Introduction The Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica is the location of a dynamic and dramatic surface wind field. Katabatic winds, barrier winds, and winds associated with the ...
Mark William Seefeldt, 2007
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Tidal Motion of the Ross Ice Shelf and Its Interaction with ...
CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSIONS Three stations near the front of the Ross Ice Shelf captured two weeks of geodetic quality GPS data in 2005, each with a very similar diurnal signal associated with the tide. The periodic signal observed at Nascent ...
Kelly M. Brunt, 2008
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Icefire
Once lovers, now enemies, Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey must join forces to stop a cabal of Chinese officials from devasating the Pacific Rim nations using nuclear weapons to create gigantic tidal waves
Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, 1998
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Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical ...
Miiller Ice Shelf is a small ice shelf, a few kilometers in diameter, in Lallemand Fjord (near 70° S) and the northernmost ice shelf on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Jones Ice Shelf near 67° 30'S is also a thin ice shelf, it is located ...
Ute Christina Herzfeld, 2004
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Antarctica. Ediz. Inglese
Together with its eastern neighbor, the Filchner Ice Shelf, the Ronne Ice Shelf forms the Weddell Sea's southern coast. It was discovered by American naval commander Finn Ronne, leader of the private Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in ...
‎2008
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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
A major survey of the Ross Ice Shelf was undertaken during the 1970s, with a variety of measurements being made at 200 sites evenly distributed over the ice shelf. The new data on ice motion and the rapid growth of computer power ...
Beau Riffenburgh, 2007
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Antarctic Sector of the Pacific
About half of the continental shelf in the Ross Sea is covered by the thick permanent floating glacial ice of the Ross Ice Shelf. Some of the subsurface water observed over the continental shelf is colder than the sea surface freezing point and ...
G.P. Glasby, 1989
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
THE ROSS ICE SHELF Our first major task was to produce a reconnaissance map of the thickness of the Ross Ice Shelf; this was first made available to the National Science Foundation in 1972 in order to help in planning the Ross Ice Shelf ...
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Biology of the Southern Ocean, Second Edition
The other branch would travel in a large cyclonic gyre beneath the Ice Shelf. As the ice shelf thickens this water moves to deeper levels and melting near the Barrier edge would lower the temperature to near freezing point, after which any  ...
George A. Knox, 2006
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Deception Point
On the eve of a presidential race in which NASA's budget is a pivotal issue, the space agency announces the discovery of an ancient meteorite filled with fossils deep in the Arctic ice.
Dan Brown, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ICE SHELF»

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The Polar Code - Lexology
Distance limits are prescribed from the nearest ice shelf, land-fast ice or ice concentration exceeding 1/10. Food waste discharge is permitted ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
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ECS continues support for British Antarctic Survey station: News …
There is a constant battle to overcome approximately 1.2 m of snow that accumulates each year on the Brunt Ice Shelf, covering and eventually ... «Process & Control Today, Jul 15»
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The Ruby: July's striking birthstone
Most recently a sizeable quantity was located in Greenland with the receding of an ice shelf. While some may believe that origin influences ... «KIRO Seattle, Jul 15»
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Capturing the sublime Fine Arts
... a rogue chandelier on the run from its outlet; and, alone on an ice shelf, a spiky black critter that could pass for a medieval weapon of war. «Bay Area Reporter, Jul 15»
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Review: 'ScoopTHAT' For National Ice Cream Day On July 19th
I recently tried the ScoopTHAT on a carton of ice cream that was so frozen it had an ice shelf across the top of it. But much to my amazement, ... «Monsters and Critics.com, Jul 15»
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Roundup: Glacier dynamics, retreat in Turkey, and theological …
“Following the disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, in 2002, regular surveillance of its ∼20 tributary glaciers has ... «GlacierHub, Jul 15»
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Mark Patinkin: Here's hope-ing you can pass RI Citizenship Test
Biggest official unit of measurement — "An ice shelf as big as Rhode Island" — designated by the National Institute of Standards and ... «The Providence Journal, Jul 15»
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In Canada's Arctic, a Cultural History Crumbles
When you're careening across the undulating surface of an ice shelf, anything that isn't white, black, or gray stands out. But an old broken-down ... «TheTyee.ca, Jul 15»
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Europa Exploration: NASA Tests Underwater Drone To Investigate …
It's ideal for traveling under the ice shelf of an icy world.” The autonomous vehicle was the first to be controlled via satellite, and it is designed ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
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Q&A: Antarctica - our big icy threat
The remnants of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea Antarctica. Photo / NASA / Ted Scambos. By Jamie Morton. Scientists are watching ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»

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