Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make or keep free of ice; melt ice from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to remove ice or frost from.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove the
ice from something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make or become free of frost or ice
- verb make or become free of frost or ice
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Examples
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The flight data recorder indicated airplane deice, which is a system in the airplane that helps deice those wings and windshields and surfaces on that aircraft, that the airplane deice was selected in the on position.
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Thus I agree with President Clinton forgo trying to deice a stonehenge block of artic ice.
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But for BAA to "underestimate" the time it takes to deice a stand...
UK snow chaos: some make it home, but thousands still stranded 2010
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I could not make out what they were doing, being that it was an old recording deice they used.
The First Run 2009
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Eyman's proposal would in fact, force voters who do not want their essential services gutted to regularly approve revenue increases, because that would be the only way to deice its draconian limits once it has frozen into place.
Initiative 1033's backers exhibit their disdain for representative democracy 2009
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The flight data recorder indicated airframe de-ice, which is a system on the airplane that helps deice those wings and windshields and surfaces on that aircraft.
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Ice built up beyond the reach of the deice boot; 68 were killed.
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The wind conditions are a lot better today and, of course, the pilot told us up front that they wanted to spend as much time deicing the airplane and I said, amen, just, please, deice it as long as you have to, but it was a good flight.
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And so what the pilot has to do is to make sure that that ventilation system is shut down before you deice.
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But the north defied him, testing a nuclear deice this past October.
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