pack ice

pack ice

English

Noun

pack ice (usually uncountable, plural pack ices)

1. A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice.
   • 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:

     Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].

   • 1986, Stephen Pyne, The Ice, page 4:

     […] the sea ices: pack ices, ice floes, ice rinds, ice hummocks ...; the coastal ices, fast ice, shore ices, glacial-ice, tongues, ice piedmonts; […]

Synonyms

• ice pack
• hummocky ice

Translations

large consolidated mass of floating sea ice

Bulgarian: паков лед (pakov led) Chinese: Mandarin: 浮冰 (zh) (fúbīng) Danish: pakis (da) c Dutch: pakijs (nl) n Finnish: ahtojää (fi) French: banquise (fr) German: Packeis (de) n Hungarian: jégtorlasz (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: pakkis (no) m Nynorsk: pakkis m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: па́ковый лёд m (pákovyj ljód), пак (ru) m (pak) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: packis (sv) c

Anagrams

• ice pack, icepack