black ice

A thin, nearly invisible coating of ice that forms on paved surfaces.

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black ice

(Physical Geography) a thin transparent layer of new ice on a road or similar surface

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

black ice - a thin coating of ice (as from freezing mist) on a road or sidewalk; nearly invisible but very hazardous

ice, water ice - water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in their drinks"

Translations

ثَلْج أَسْوَد

náledí

isslag

Glatteis

«μαύρος» πάγος

capa de hielo capa fina de hielo en las carreteras

musta jää

verglas

poledica

ghiaccio nero verglas

路面の薄い透明な氷

도로의 살얼음살얼음

underkylt regn

น้ำแข็งสีดำ

gizli buz

lớp băng phủ mặt đường

黑冰

black ice

n → strato invisibile di ghiaccio (su strada)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

black ice

→ ثَلْج أَسْوَد náledí isslag Glatteis «μαύρος» πάγος capa de hielo, capa fina de hielo en las carreteras musta jää verglas poledica ghiaccio nero 路面の薄い透明な氷 도로의 살얼음 ijzel underkjølt regn gołoledź camada de gelo fina e transparente em estradas гололед underkylt regn น้ำแข็งสีดำ gizli buz lớp băng phủ mặt đường 黑冰

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Then he felt himself a person of consequence, and on smooth, black ice, with a bold heart and a quick elbow, he smoked along over the levels as fast as a pack in full cry.

There were gullies and ravines, and holes like gravel-pits, cut in ice; lumps and scattered pieces frozen down to the original floor of the floe; blotches of old black ice that had been thrust under the floe in some gale and heaved up again; roundish boulders of ice; saw-like edges of ice carved by the snow that flies before the wind; and sunken pits where thirty or forty acres lay below the level of the rest of the field.

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