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Meaning of "ice-shelf" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ICE-SHELF

ice-shelf  [ˈaɪsˌʃɛlf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ICE-SHELF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ice-Shelf is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ICE-SHELF


bookshelf
ˈbʊkʃɛlf
delf
dɛlf
delph
dɛlf
elf
ɛlf
Guelph
ɡwɛlf
herself
həˈsɛlf
himself
hɪmˈsɛlf
itself
ɪtˈsɛlf
myself
maɪˈsɛlf
off-the-shelf
ˌɒfðəˈʃɛlf
oneself
wʌnˈsɛlf
ourself
aʊəˈsɛlf
pelf
pɛlf
self
sɛlf
shelf
ʃɛlf
themself
ðəmˈsɛlf
thyself
ðaɪˈsɛlf
top-shelf
ˌtɒpˈʃɛlf
unself
ʌnˈsɛlf
yourself
jɔːˈsɛlf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ICE-SHELF

ice-age
ice-cold
ice-cool
ice-cream cone
ice-cream cornet
ice-cream maker
ice-cream parlour
ice-cream soda
ice-cream van
ice-making compartment
ice-skate
ice-skater
ice-skating
ice-station
Ice.
iceball
iceberg
iceberg lettuce
iceblink
iceboat

WORDS THAT END LIKE ICE-SHELF

continental shelf
do-it-yourself
English self
express oneself
find oneself
good self
higher self
ice shelf
inner self
lend itself
mantel shelf
off the shelf
on the shelf
parcel shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
speak for itself
speak for yourself
the self
thing-in-itself
to be pleased with yourself

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

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ice-shelf» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ICE-SHELF

Find out the translation of ice-shelf to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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

лед - полка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gelo - prateleira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আইস-বালুচর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

banquise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ais-rak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eis - Regal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

氷棚
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

얼음 선반
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Es-rak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

băng -shelf
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஐஸ் அலமாரியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बर्फ-शेल्फ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

buz raf
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ice - shelf
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Półka lodu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лід -полка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ice - raft
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πάγου ράφι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ice- shelf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

is - hylla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ice -sokkel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ice-shelf

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ICE-SHELF»

The term «ice-shelf» is regularly used and occupies the 62.614 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»

Discover the use of ice-shelf in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ice-shelf and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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 ...
9
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
10
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

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Ice-Shelf [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ice-shelf-1>. May 2024 ».
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