What is another word for ice floes?

Pronunciation: [ˈa͡ɪs flˈə͡ʊz] (IPA)

Ice floes are large pieces of floating ice typically found in polar regions. Other words that can be used to describe ice floes include icebergs, ice sheets, floebergs, and pack ice. Icebergs are large chunks of ice that have broken off from glaciers or ice shelves and are floating in open water. Ice sheets are extensive areas of floating ice that can be connected to land masses or form simply from frozen sea water. Floebergs are ice floes that are larger and more irregular in shape than traditional ice floes. Pack ice is a term used to describe a large area of broken up ice floes that are close together.

What are the hypernyms for Ice floes?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Ice floes

  • When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool. Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you're half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose, and a teen-age lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're going a hundred miles an hour down a suburban sidestreet. You'd have to watch the entire Mexican air force crash-land in a liquid petroleum gas storage facility to match this kind of thrill. If you ever have much more fun than that, you'll die of pure sensory overload, I'm here to tell you.
    P. J. O'Rourke
  • We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.
    Ian McEwan

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