ice vs off

ice

verb
  • To murder. 

  • To become ice; to freeze. 

  • To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc. 

  • To make icy; to freeze. 

  • 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. 

  • To cool with ice, as a beverage. 

noun
  • Water in frozen (solid) form. 

  • An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny. 

  • A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar. 

  • One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds. 

  • Any substance having the appearance of ice. 

  • Money paid as a bribe. 

  • The area where a game of ice hockey is played. 

  • Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market. 

  • Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. 

  • Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant. 

  • Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs. 

off

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To switch off. 

adj
  • Inoperative, disabled. 

  • On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left). 

  • Inappropriate; untoward. 

  • Circumstanced. 

  • Cancelled; not happening. 

  • Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent. 

  • Presently unavailable. 

  • Started on the way. 

  • Rancid, rotten, gone bad. 

  • Less than normal, in temperament or in result. 

  • The off front wheel came loose. 

  • Not fitted; not being worn. 

  • Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities. 

  • In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • Far; off to the side. 

  • Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. 

adv
  • Offstage. 

  • Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase. 

  • Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. 

  • So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated. 

  • In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. 

noun
  • Beginning; starting point. 

prep
  • Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering. 

  • Removed or subtracted from. 

  • Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via. 

  • Out of the possession of. 

  • Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to. 

  • Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland. 

  • No longer wanting or taking. 

  • Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon. 

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