Definitions for icing

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icing ic·ing

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IPA: /ˈaɪ sɪŋ/

Icing is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in icing (cgiin).

Definitions for icing

noun

1. a sweet, creamy spread, as of confectioners' sugar, butter, and flavoring, for covering cakes, cookies, etc.; frosting.
2. Meteorology. a coating of ice on a solid object. Compare glaze, rime1 .
3. Aviation. the freezing of atmospheric moisture on the surface of an aircraft.
4. Ice Hockey. the act of a player shooting the puck from the defensive half of the rink over the opponent's goal line, but not into the goal, as a defensive maneuver to keep the puck out of the reach of attacking opponents, resulting in a penalty against the defensive team if the puck is then next touched by an opponent other than the goalkeeper.
5. the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
6. the frozen surface of a body of water.
7. any substance resembling frozen water:
8. a frozen dessert made of sweetened water and fruit juice.
9. British. ice cream.
10. icing, as on a cake.
11. reserve; formality:
12. Slang. a diamond or diamonds. protection money paid to the police by the operator of an illicit business. a fee that a ticket broker pays to a theater manager in order to receive a favorable allotment of tickets.

Idioms

1. icing on the cake. frosting (def 5).
2. break the ice, to succeed initially; make a beginning. to overcome reserve, awkwardness, or formality within a group, as in introducing persons:
3. cut no ice, Informal. to have no influence or importance; fail to impress:
4. ice it, Slang. stop it; that's enough:
5. ice the puck, Ice Hockey. to hit the puck to the far end of the rink, especially from the defensive area across the offensive area.
6. on ice, Informal. with a good chance of success or realization: out of activity, as in confinement or imprisonment. in a state of abeyance or readiness:
7. on thin ice, in a precarious or delicate situation: Also, skating on thin ice.

adjective

1. of or made of ice:
2. for holding ice and food or drink to be chilled:
3. on or done on the ice:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with ice.
2. to change into ice; freeze.
3. to cool with ice, as a drink.
4. to cover (cake, sweet rolls, etc.) with icing; frost.
5. to refrigerate with ice, as air.
6. to make cold, as if with ice.
7. to preserve by placing on ice.
8. Ice Hockey. (especially in Canada) to put (a team) into formal play.
9. Slang. to settle or seal; make sure of, as by signing a contract: to make (a business arrangement) more attractive by adding features or benefits: to kill, especially to murder:
10. Sports Slang. to establish a winning score or insurmountable lead in or otherwise assure victory in (a game or contest):

verb (used without object)

1. to change to ice; freeze:
2. to be coated with ice (often followed by up):

Origin of icing

First recorded in 1760-70; ice + -ing¹

Examples for icing

Recipes for icing are so general that I refer you to your cookery book.

The leather gloves are just icing on the weird, fabulous cake.

Bringing along Justin Timberlake and Madonna, as he did last night, was icing on the cake.

It is used for the icing of cake or the making of French candies.

Flavour the icing with essence of lemon, or with extract of roses.

It's icing on the, well, ice that the film's story is as emotionally cascading as the setting.

And aside from doing the requisite things needed to seize the majority, there was icing on the cake, too.

You may make maccaroons with icing that is left from a cake.

If you ice it, add a few drops of essence of lemon to the icing.

That would be a nice little layer of icing, because it would prove the smug conventional wisdom as wrong as it usually is.