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ice up
verb
To become clogged with ice.
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Winds and storm can break the ice up, causing it to melt faster.
He's also a trash talker who yelled "Ice up, son!" at Aqib Talib.
But as the gyre spins up, currents catch the ice up and turn off the surface stress.
I feel bad about it, but hey, hopefully he'll sleep tonight, ice up and be ready to go tomorrow".
On very high-altitude, low-latitude snow and firn fields these may grow into spectacular narrow blades of ice, up to several metres high, called nieves penitentes.
Dense ice – up to 8 metres (25ft) thick – had filled the waters off the northern coast of Newfoundland, trapping fishing boats and ferries.
But Poile has built a fine organization from the ice up and he's always been a terrific (and under-rated) GM.
Ice, up to 3km deep at its thickest point, covers more than three-quarters of the great northern island, the size of Australia.
As warming ocean waters lick away at the underside of the floating ice shelves, a runaway effect lifts more and more ice up and off the bedrock to where it can be melted from underneath.
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Although he stressed it was only speculation, he said it was possible the pilots may have lost data on air speed because of an ice-up of pitot tube instrumentation.
Only a degree of warming can be the difference between ice-up and navigable water, between snow pack and bare ground.
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