Difference between Ice and Frost

What is the difference between Ice and Frost?

Ice as a noun is water in frozen (solid) form. while Frost as a noun is a cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. some of these are tree branches, plant stems, leaves, wires, poles, vehicles, rooftops, or aircraft skin. frost is the same process by which dew is formed except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. frost can be light or heavy.

Ice

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Water in frozen (solid) form. Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar. Any substance having the appearance of ice. One or more diamonds. Crystal form of methamphetamine. The pitch.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cool with ice, as a beverage. To become ice, to freeze. To murder. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc. To put out a team for a match. To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

Example sentence: Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.

Frost

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To get covered with frost.To coat something (eg a cake) with white icing to resemble frost.To anger or annoy.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Some of these are tree branches, plant stems, leaves, wires, poles, vehicles, rooftops, or aircraft skin. Frost is the same process by which dew is formed except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. Frost can be light or heavy.The cold weather that would cause frost as in (1) to form.

Example sentence: Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid.

We hope you now know whether to use Ice or Frost in your sentence.

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