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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
2. 2
   a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea wordnet
3. 3
   An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.
4. 4
   An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier
5. 5
   A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.

Synonyms

All synonyms

arctic ice islandbergcalfdrifting floeflat ice piecefloe

Antonyms

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anchored floeicebergopen water

Etymology

From ice + floe.