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ice burn

ice burn noun: tissue damage caused by direct skin contact with a cold surface.

Noun (1)

ice burn (countable and uncountable, plural ice burns)

  1. Tissue damage caused by direct skin contact with a cold surface.

Noun (2)

ice burn (uncountable)

  1. (Japan, non-native speakers' English) An icy road.
    • sliding near intersections and on ice burn2008, Takahiro Kato, “Editor's Note”, in PWRI Web Magazine, volume 3, Public Works Research Institute
    • In fact, some subjects reported that “ice burn sometimes slips, but basically, walking on ice burn feels no different than walking on an ordinary road.”2018, Ren Katsurada, Tatsuhito Hasegawa, “Estimation of Road Snow Accumulation Using Smartphones to Create Snow Cover Maps for Pedestrians”, in IEEE Region 10 International Conference TENCON, →DOI

Forms of ice burn

pluralice burns

Origin of ice burn

From ice + burn.

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese アイスバーン (aisubān), from German Eisbahn (literally “ice road”).

Questions about ice burn

What does ice burn mean?
Ice burn means tissue damage caused by direct skin contact with a cold surface.
What part of speech is ice burn?
Ice burn is a noun.
What is the plural of ice burn?
The plural of ice burn is ice burns.

Words near ice burn in the dictionary

  1. ice bridges
  2. ice bucket
  3. ice bucket challenge
  4. ice bucket challenges
  5. ice buckets
  6. ice burn
  7. ice burns
  8. ice candle
  9. ice candles
  10. ice candy
  11. ice cap

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