Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Free of ice and open to travel or navigation.
- adjective Marked by a lack of obstructive ice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective free of ice and open to travel; -- of water routes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free of ice and open to travel
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Examples
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Then, the Arctic was ice-free in the summers with temperatures being between 20 to 29 degrees F warmer than today, sea levels anywhere from 15 to 100 feet higher, and global temperatures 5 to 7 degrees F warmer.
Marvin Meadors: Why the Republican War on Science? Marvin Meadors 2012
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Then, the Arctic was ice-free in the summers with temperatures being between 20 to 29 degrees F warmer than today, sea levels anywhere from 15 to 100 feet higher, and global temperatures 5 to 7 degrees F warmer.
Marvin Meadors: Why the Republican War on Science? Marvin Meadors 2012
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What other timesaving strategies do you use to keep your car ice-free during the winter?
Three Cheap Recipes For DIY Windshield De-Icers - The Consumerist 2009
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Others predict ice-free summers beginning in 2012, when the Kyoto Treaty expires.
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The study helps to explain the huge loss of ice in the region during the summers of 2007 and 2008, after which some commentators suggested the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free during the summertime within a decade.
Arctic winds responsible for much of the loss of sea ice « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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By 15,500 years ago, the ice-free corridor, that land corridor connecting Alaska with the mainland of the United States, was closed.
New Discoveries Suggest Earlier Settlement of Americans 2011
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The 5 Arctic coastal states (Canada, USA, Norway, Russia and Denmark, which is responsible for the external affairs of Greenland) are conveting the increasingly ice-free and pristine waters of the Arctic as the next oil bonanza.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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The 5 Arctic coastal states (Canada, USA, Norway, Russia and Denmark, which is responsible for the external affairs of Greenland) are conveting the increasingly ice-free and pristine waters of the Arctic as the next oil bonanza.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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We still expect to see ice-free summers sometime in the next few decades.
Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree 2010
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For a while, geologists believed that the sheets partially melted at just the right time, creating an ice-free corridor that the paleo-Indians walked through.
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