Initialism of independent contractor. / Initialism of irreducible complexity. / (chemistry) Initialism of intercalation compound. / (chemistry) Initialism of ion chromatography.

Pseudo-acronym of icy. / Initialism of in charge. / (role-playing games, fandom slang) Initialism of in character.

Pseudo-acronym of I see.

(astronomy) Initialism of Index Catalogue (part of the NGC survey of J.L.E. Dreyer’s update to the Herschel General Catalogue).

Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning “of or pertaining to”.

(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form. / (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.

(transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage. / (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze. / (transitive) To make icy; to freeze. / (transitive, slang) To murder.

simple past tense and past participle of ice

With ice added. / Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice. / Covered with icing.

(idiomatic) Not being used; temporarily unavailable or suspended; on hold. / Of an entertainment normally performed on a stage: performed by ice skaters as an ice show.