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Definitions: Icing |
IcingNoun1. The formation of frost or ice on a surface. 2. A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes. 3. (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "icing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Initial deposit of ice on a vessel's superstructure etc. , caused by rain and spray freezing on contact with the ship's structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | The act. . . of an ice-hockey player's shooting the puck from within his own defensive zone through the neutral zone and beyond the opponents' goal line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: IcingSynonyms: frost (n), frosting (n), ice (n), icing the puck (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Icing |
| English words defined with "icing": icing the puck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "icing": BAKERY WORKER, CONVEYOR LINE ♦ CAKE DECORATOR, cook, frozen dessert, cook, ice cream ♦ decorator, hand, DEPOSITING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ filling-machine operator ♦ glaze icing ♦ house supervisor ♦ ICE-CREAM CHEF ♦ marshmallow-machine worker, mixed icing ♦ PACKING-HOUSE SUPERVISOR, packing-shed supervisor, PASTRY CHEF, pastry decorator ♦ rime icing ♦ spreading-machine operator, star tube, SUPERVISOR, YARD ♦ TROLLEY OPERATOR ♦ WIND TUNNEL MECHANIC. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Icing" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (icing). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The fly was funny, but the booger was the icing on the cake! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Momma, I want some icing. (The Gift; writing credit: Billy Bob Thornton; Tom Epperson) Keep icing your front bum. Swelling continues if you don't ice! And I need younot really! (Get Over It; writing credit: R. Lee Fleming Jr.) | |
Lyrics | Icing over a secret pain. ("Jumper"; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Icing (1996) | |
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| "Icing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.26% of the time. "Icing" is used about 522 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.26% | 492 | 12,185 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 5.54% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 522 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "icing": aircraft icing indicator ♦ chocolate icing ♦ heavy icing ♦ icing index ♦ icing over ♦ icing sugar ♦ icing the puck ♦ icing up ♦ light icing ♦ light icing in cloud ♦ light icing in precipitation ♦ moderate icing ♦ moderate icing in cloud ♦ moderate icing in precipitation ♦ no icing ♦ severe icing ♦ severe icing in cloud ♦ severe icing in precipitation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "icing": icing-covered, icing-sugar, icing-up. | |
Ending with "icing": bloody-icing, de-icing, electrical anti-icing, feathered-icing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
icing | 369 |
icing recipe | 162 |
cake icing | 138 |
royal icing | 82 |
buttercream icing | 73 |
cheese cream icing | 66 |
chocolate icing | 54 |
by claires icing | 52 |
icing store | 50 |
accessory icing | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "icing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngricje, mbyllje me krem të ëmbël, krem ëmbëlsirash (frosting, icing sugar). (various references) | |
Arabic | غطاء جليدي, تجمد (freeze, freezing, frost, frostiness, settle down, solidify), تثليج (refrigeration). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глазура (glaze), заледяване (congealment, freezing). (various references) | |
Chinese | "冰 (freeze, freezing, Froze, frozen). (various references) | |
Czech | námraza (hoarfrost, icy), cukrová poleva. (various references) | |
Danish | isning, isforsyning, isdannelse, nedisning, glasur (compound coating, enamel, glaze, vitrifiable glaze), glacering (glazing). (various references) | |
Dutch | glacé (tawed hide, tawed skin). (various references) | |
Esperanto | glaceo. (various references) | |
Finnish | kuorrutus. (various references) | |
French | glaçage. (various references) | |
German | vereisung (freezing, freezing over, glacial epoch, glacial stage, glaciation, ice flood, ice-up, iciness, icing over), eisbildung. (various references) | |
Greek | γλάσο, γλασάρισμα (glazing), μίγμα γλασαρίσματος (compound coating), πάγωμα (freeze, freezing), παγοποίηση, ζαχαρώδησ φλοιόσ ζυμαρικού, επίστρωση τροφίμων με ζελέ, ψύξη (chill, chilling, coling, cooling, cooling down, freezing, frigidity, frost bite, frostbite, internal chill, refrigeration). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תכסות בקרח, "'ל"" (chilling, freezing, incrustation), צפוי בסוכר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | cukormáz (ice), cukorbevonat (frosting). (various references) | |
Italian | glassatura (glazing), formazione di ghiaccio (ice-up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 着氷 (ice accretion), 糖の衣 , アーリア人 (art deco, art nouveau, Aryan, climbing irons, crampons, eye, eye shadow, eyeshade, frozen treat similar to a Popsicle, IACA, ice, ice candy, ice cream, ice cream soda, ice cube, ice dancing, ice hockey, ice pail, ice pick, ice rink, ice show, ice skating place, ice smack, ice tongs, icebox, icecream sundae, iced coffee, iced tea, icefall, Iceland, ice-skating, icetea, icing the puck, icon, iconify, ILO, IMF, intelligence quotient, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, ion, IQ, iron, iron club, measure of area, metal pins of climbing shoes, popsicle, Rh, Rhesus factor, skating rink, to take the radius). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さとうの"ろも, アイシング , ちゃくひょう (ice accretion). (various references) | |
Korean | 착빙. (various references) | |
Manx | riojey (freeze, frost, ice up), riojaghey (ice). (various references) | |
Norwegian | isdannelse, glasur (enamel, glaze). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pasta para congelar (compound coating), glacé (frosty), gelatinar, formação de gelo, duma maneira glacial, congelamento (freeze, frost, geld), cobertura de açúcar. (various references) | |
Romanian | glazurã (frosting, glaze, glazing, ice), îngeţare. (various references) | |
Russian | хоккей (hockey, shinney), обледенение, замораживание (gelation, quiescing, refrigeration). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaleđivanje, premazivanje glazurom. (various references) | |
Spanish | glaseado (glace, glazed, glazing, polishing), formación de hielo. (various references) | |
Swedish | glasyr (frosting, glaze, glazing). (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำตาลหรือครีมโรยหน้าขนม. (various references) | |
Turkish | pasta kaplama şekeri, glasaj, buz kaplama, buz örtüsü. (various references) | |
Ukranian | цукрова глазур (ice), глазурування (frosting), обледеніння, заморожування (ceiling, freeze, freezing, frosting, refrigeration), айсінг. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ướp lạnh kem lòng trắng trứng, sự đóng băng sự ướp nước đá, lớp băng phủ trên máy bay. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "icing": icings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "icing": apprenticing, beneficing, bratticing, coppicing, cornicing, deicing, devoicing, dicing, enticing, invoicing, jaundicing, juicing, latticing, mispricing, morticing, nonpracticing, noticing, outpricing, outvoicing, overpricing, overservicing, policing, poulticing, practicing, prejudicing, prenticing, prepricing, preslicing, pricing, pumicing, rejoicing, repricing, reservicing, resplicing, revoicing, ricing, sacrificing, servicing, slicing, sluicing, spicing, splicing, sufficing, tricing, underpricing, unvoicing, vicing, voicing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "icing": enticingly, rejoicingly, rejoicings. (additional references) | |
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"Icing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cing, ibin, ican, Icbinb, iceing, icen, ici, icine, iding, iin, iling, iming, ining, iring, ishin, Isin, ising, Issing, itin, iving, Mcing, oicing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "icing" (pronounced ī"sing) |
| 4 | ī" s i ng | enticing, pricing, repricing, slicing, spicing, splicing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-n" | |
-2 letters: cig, gin. | |
-3 letters: in. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-n" | |
+1 letter: citing, congii, dicing, icings, ricing, vicing. | |
+2 letters: ceiling, chiding, chiming, chining, coifing, coiling, coining, deicing, dicking, discing, gonidic, inching, itching, juicing, kicking, licking, miching, mincing, niching, nicking, picking, piecing, pricing, ricking, siccing, sicking, slicing, spicing, ticking, tricing, voicing, wicking, wincing, zincing. | |
+3 letters: biogenic, birching, bitching, bricking, cabining, caviling, ceilings, chaining, chairing, childing, chilling, chinking, chinning, chipping, chirking, chirming, chirping, chirring, chitling, chivying, choiring, cinching, circling, claiming, clicking, climbing, clingier, clinging, clinking, clipping, cliquing, coiffing, coigning, cribbing, cricking, crimping, cringing, crisping, cruising, deciding, discoing, ditching, enticing, epigenic, epigonic, evicting, evincing, exciding, excising, exciting, filching, flicking, gigantic, glucinic, gneissic, granitic, hitching, hoicking, hygienic, incaging, incasing, incising, inciting, incoming, incusing, inducing, inlacing, isogenic, isogonic, itchings, lichting, lickings, lignitic, logician, magician, magnific, miscuing, nickling, noticing, pickings, pickling, picoting, piecings, piercing, pinching, pitching, policing, pricking, pumicing, reaginic, reciting, scribing, scriving, sickling, slicking, sluicing, snicking, splicing, sticking, tickings, tickling, tincting, tricking, vicinage, wickings, winching, witching, wricking, zincking. | |
+4 letters: abiogenic, abscising, achieving, acquiring, addicting, agonistic, anglicise, anglicism, anglicize, anticking, anticling, antigenic, archiving, articling, ascribing, becriming, bickering, bicycling, bigeneric, bisecting, calcining, capsizing, cavilling, ceilinged, chicaning, chiseling, chitlings, chivvying, cindering, ciphering, citifying, climaxing, clinching, clingiest, clippings, codifying, codriving, coediting, coffining, cognising, cognition, cognitive, cognizing, cojoining, colliding, combining, commixing, compiling, confiding, confining, conniving, coppicing, cornicing, cosigning, cowhiding, cowriting, crediting, cribbings, crimpling, crinkling, crippling, cruisings, cuittling, cyaniding, cyclizing, deceiving, declining, dehiscing, depicting, deticking, devoicing, dezincing, dickering, dictating, digenetic, diligence, directing, discasing, divorcing, eclipsing, eliciting, enigmatic, enriching, financing, finicking, flinching, flitching, fungicide, gasolinic, genitalic, grecizing, grimacing, hiccuping, hijacking, hygienics, impacting, inarching, incanting, incensing, incepting, inclining, inclosing, including, incognita, incognito, incomings, incurring, incurving, indicting, indigence, inducting, infecting, injecting, inorganic, invoicing, isogeneic, isogonics, laicising, laicizing, latticing, licencing, licensing, lichening, logicians, machining, magicians, magicking, magnifico, mimicking, mincingly, misacting, misciting, miscoding, misogynic, mitogenic, morticing, nickeling, nickering, nictating, pacifying, panicking, pectizing, penciling, pickaxing, picketing, picturing, piercings, precising, prickings, prickling, receiving, reclining, recoiling, recoining, rejoicing, repricing, revoicing, richening, schilling, scrieving, scrimping, scripting, scungilli, servicing, sickening, sicklying, significs, silencing, smirching, snitching, stickling, stitching, sufficing, suiciding, switching, ticketing, toxigenic, trickling, twitching, uncoiling, unpicking, unvoicing, upcoiling, vicinages, vigilance, witchings. | |
+5 letters: abdicating, acclaiming, acetifying, acidifying, acierating, acquitting, activating, activizing, affiancing, afflicting, angiogenic, anglicised, anglicises, anglicisms, anglicized, anglicizes, anticaking, aragonitic, archaising, archaizing, astricting, auctioning, audiogenic, backbiting, backfiring, beneficing, bewitching, biogenetic, bratticing, calamining, calcifying, caliginous, calipering, calorizing, canalising, canalizing, canonising, canonizing, caponizing, caprioling, captaining, captioning, caregiving, cariogenic, carnifying, cashiering, cautioning, cavitating, certifying, chagrining, chamoising, charioting, chastising, cherishing, chickening, chillingly, chippering, chirruping, chiselling, chittering, chivariing, chromizing, cincturing, circuiting, civilising, civilizing, clarifying, clarioning, clinkering, coadmiring, coalifying, cochairing, coderiving, coexisting, cogitating, cogitation, cognitions, cohabiting, coiffuring, coinciding, coinhering, coinsuring, colonising, colonizing, colorizing, comingling, committing, comprising, comprizing, conceiting, conceiving, confirming, conjoining, consigning, consisting, conspiring, containing, contiguity, continuing, contriving, convicting, convincing, creolising, creolizing, cricketing, crimsoning, crispening, critiquing, crucifying, cuirassing, curarizing, curlicuing, curtailing, curtaining, cushioning, cutinising, cutinizing, decimating, declaiming, dedicating, describing, dezincking, diagenetic, diagnostic, diligences, discanting, discarding, discepting, discerning, discipling, disclosing, discording, discussing, disgracing, disjecting, displacing, dissecting, distancing, domiciling, dulcifying, emaciating, enchaining, encircling, ensigncies, enticingly, epigenetic, ethicizing, eugenicist, evidencing, excitingly, exclaiming, exercising, exigencies, exorcising, exorcizing, exscinding, extincting, fancifying, financings, fingerpick, flickering, florigenic, focalising, focalizing, fossicking, frolicking, fungicidal, fungicides, ganglionic, geneticist, gentamicin, gimmicking, glaciating, glaciation, gnosticism, graecizing, gramicidin, granulitic, grecianize, hiccupping, hijackings, iatrogenic, iceboating, impeaching, inclasping, inclinings, inclipping, incogitant, incognitas, incognitos, incorpsing, increasing, incrossing, incrusting, incubating, indicating, indigences, inflecting, inflicting, infracting, inscribing, insculping, inspecting, instancing, intragenic, invocating, jaundicing, jingoistic, kickboxing, laryngitic, limnologic, linguistic, localising, localizing, logicising, logicizing, lyricising, lyricizing, mafficking, magnifical, magnificat, magnificos, manicuring, mediagenic, medicating, medicining, meningitic, micrifying, microfungi, miscalling, miscasting, miscoining, miscooking, miscopying, miscutting, miskicking, misplacing, mispricing, misspacing, mistracing, mosaicking, multigenic, nickelling, nicknaming, nightstick, nitpicking, officering, opacifying, organicism, organicist, organicity, organismic, outchiding, outkicking, outpricing, outvoicing, pedicuring, pencilings, pencilling, perceiving, physicking, pickeering, picnicking, piercingly, pinnacling, poulticing, practicing, practising, predicting, prenticing, prepricing, preslicing, princeling, quickening, racemizing, radicating, radiogenic, receipting, recircling, reclaiming, recruiting, rectifying, redeciding, reinciting, reinducing, rejoicings, rescinding, resplicing, ridiculing, rollicking, scarifying, schillings, scissoring, scorifying, scraiching, scraighing, scribbling, scungillis, sectioning, sinicizing, snickering, solecising, solecizing, soliciting, sonicating, speciating, specifying, squinching, stenciling, strickling, subceiling, suctioning, tackifying, thickening, tictacking, tictocking, tincturing, trisecting, unchaining, unclipping, unexciting, ungimmicky, unhitching, unhygienic, unsticking, upclimbing, urticating, vesicating, victualing, vigilances, vocalising, vocalizing, whickering, zincifying. | |
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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0063 0069 006E 0067 |
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