drift ice
Treibeis
One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or…One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents.
» Drifting ice caused damage to the boat.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents.
Treibeis
masses of ice floating in the open sea
Examples
3 sentencesDrifting ice caused damage to the boat.
Walruses mate along ice edges in the drifting pack ice during winter and give birth on sea ice in spring.
Rabies is probably introduced periodically by polar foxes on drift ice from Siberia.
Translations
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By meaning 1
detached, floating slabs of ice:
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable