block of ice

collocation in English

meaningsofblockandice

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block
noun
uk
/blɒk/us
/blɑːk/
mainly US
the distance along a street from where one road crosses it to the place where the next road crosses it, or one part of a street like this, especially in a town ...
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ice
noun
uk
/aɪs/us
/aɪs/
water that has frozen and become solid, or pieces ...
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(Definition ofblockandicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The solidity of ablockoficeis spatially coextensive with the ice, but the field of a magnet can extend far beyond the latter's boundaries.
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If we melt ablockofice, it does not take up more space.
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Theblockoficeshattered into many pieces.
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All those aids should have been used to identify which aircraft was responsible for theblockofice.
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It is trying to travel even with a greatblockoficeat one's side and every appliance of science to keep one cool.
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Today's proposition, presumably, is that we have devised something which will take the place of theblockoficewhen the spring comes.
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On the way, he ransoms a sinner who had been put into ablockofice.
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Theblockoficeis sometimes inverted in the cup when sold.
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The body is brought to the base in ablockofice.
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If it is cold, then cold as ablockofice.
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Pingu is rescued, but is completely frozen in ablockofice.
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When ablockoficeis accidentally broken, a bag of white powder falls out.
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Bobo becomes encased in ablockoficeuntil picked up by an ice-gathering expedition.
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He unhappily goes off and hides behind a nearbyblockofice.
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On occasion, a climber will experience a largeblockoficecrashing down in their vicinity.
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Brim is frozen in ablockofice, surrounded by sigil slayer eggs.
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The orca ignores the penguins, who are now on a much smallerblockofice.
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They found what appears to be an alien vehicle frozen in a hugeblockofice.
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Later, the two penguins crash towards the water (but land on ablockofice).
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He then photographs an interestingly shapedblockoficefrom a variety of positions.
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He mopes off to a nearbyblockofice, where he finds a basket of fish.
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Every day, workers would put a largeblockoficein the window, and none of the typical neighborhood residents had ever seen a block of ice anywhere before.
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Shortly afterward, she was injured in the head by a fallingblockofice, which caused her a nerve illness.
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He decides to blow it up using a gernade being timed to set off once ablockoficemelts.
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Pingu is so startled he falls off theblockofice, and the crab makes good its escape.
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