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Ice Tongs

Definition: Ice Tongs

Ice Tongs

Noun

1. Tongs for lifting blocks of ice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Ice Tongs

Specialty definitions using "ice tongs": ice sellerPLATFORM ATTENDANT. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ice Tongs

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I never delivered a baby before, and I just thought that ice tongs were the way to do it. (Zelig; writing credit: Woody Allen.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Ice Tongs

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Photo Album: Ice Tongs

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No.2, Paris, France. : Ice tongs used for traction.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ice Tongs

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ice tongs

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ice Tongs

Language Translations for "ice tongs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

pince glace (ice tong). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

氷挟み , 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, icebox, icecream sundae, iced coffee, iced tea, icefall, Iceland, ice-skating, icetea, icing, 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 

  

"おりばさみ, アイストング . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iceay ongstay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ice Tongs

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: escoting.

Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: cognise, coignes, congest, costing, gnostic, notices, section.

-2 letters: centos, cestoi, cogent, coigne, coigns, conges, conies, contes, cosign, cosine, coting, egoist, gestic, icones, incest, incogs, ingest, ingots, insect, nicest, noetic, notice, oscine, signet, soigne, stingo, stogie, tigons, tinges, tocsin, toeing, tonics.

-3 letters: cento, cents, cesti, cines, cions, cites, coign, coins, cones, conge, conte, coset, cosie, cotes, eosin, escot, genic, gents, icons, incog, ingot, inset, neist, nites, noise, notes, onces, onset, ontic, scent, scion, scone, segni, segno, sengi, senti, seton, since, singe, sonic, stein, steno, sting, stoic, stone, tigon, tines, tinge, tings, tones, tongs, tonic.

-4 letters: cent, cigs, cine, cion, cist, cite, cogs, coin, cone, coni, cons, cost, cote, cots, egis, egos, engs, eons, etic, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, goes, gone, ices, icon, into, ions, nest, nets, nice, nite, nits, noes, nogs, nose, note, once, ones, otic, scot, sect, sego, sent, sice, sign, sine, sing, site, snit, snog, snot, sone, song, tegs, tens, tics, ties, tine, ting, tins, toes, togs, tone, tong, tons.

-5 letters: cig, cis, cog, con, cos, cot, ego, eng, ens, eon, gen, get, gie, gin, git, gos, got, ice, ins, ion, its, net, nit, nog, nos, not, oes, one, ons, ose, sec, seg, sei, sen, set, sic, sin, sit, son, sot, teg, ten, tic, tie, tin, tis, toe, tog, ton.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: closeting, corseting, cosseting, escorting, sectoring, socketing.

 

+2 letters: clingstone, coexisting, congesting, congestion, congestive, consenting, constringe, contesting, creosoting, cytogenies, estrogenic, nightscope, osteogenic, prosecting, restocking, sectioning, stockinged.

 

+3 letters: ancestoring, clingstones, cloistering, coattesting, cognoscenti, congestions, congruities, consignment, constringed, constringes, contingents, copingstone, countersign, courtesying, egocentrics, egocentrism, forecasting, glauconites, iceboatings, necrologist, neologistic, nightscopes, outscheming, overcasting, prosecuting, prospecting, scouthering, scroungiest, telescoping, trichogynes.

 

+4 letters: bluestocking, categorising, centimorgans, cohostessing, compensating, congelations, consecrating, consentingly, consignments, constringent, contiguities, contingences, copingstones, copresenting, countersigns, countersuing, cytogenetics, decongesting, decongestion, decongestive, egocentrisms, eigenvectors, gastrocnemii, geoscientist, greenockites, gynecologist, gynecomastia, histogenetic, isoantigenic, lysogenicity, necrologists, nightclothes, nonstrategic, oceanologist, organicities, overcastings, overstocking, recognitions, scapegoating, serotonergic, skyrocketing, stenographic, stonecutting, stringcourse, technologies, technologist, testcrossing.

 

+5 letters: archegoniates, bioenergetics, bluestockings, clotheslining, cogenerations, commiserating, computerising, concertgoings, conglutinates, congregations, conjugalities, constellating, consternating, contingencies, coreligionist, cosignatories, cosmeticizing, counterimages, counterposing, countersigned, countinghouse, decongestions, deglaciations, disconcerting, disconnecting, discontenting, domesticating, excogitations, galactosamine, gastrocnemius, genuflections, geometricians, geoscientists, gesticulation, glycoproteins, gonadectomies, gynecologists, gynecomastias, incongruities, intercrossing, introspecting, lichenologist, magnetostatic, miscegenation, misconnecting, oceanologists, octogenarians, orchestrating, outstretching, precognitions, progestogenic, prognosticate, psychogenetic, rediscounting, regionalistic, retrospecting, saprogenicity, scapegoatings, spermatogenic, steroidogenic, stonecuttings, stringcourses, technologists, technologizes, undercoatings, vasectomizing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ice Tongs


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 63 65      54 6F 6E 67 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010100 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#110 &#103 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0063 0065      0054 006F 006E 0067 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43697125481807385

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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