icing
A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with…A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, or flavorings, typically used for baked goods.
» Mary put some icing on the cake.
Mary überzog den Kuchen mit einer Glasur.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, or flavorings, typically used for baked goods.
Zuckerguss, Glasur
глазу́рьglazúrʹ
(countable, uncountable)A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
(ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal
(countable, uncountable)The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
Vereisung
обледене́ниеobledenénije
the formation of frost or ice on a surface
(countable, uncountable)Conditions conducive to the formation of ice on aircraft surfaces.
The Cessna pilots reported that moderate icing was present between 13,000 and 4,000 feet in the cloud layers.
Examples
17 sentencesMary put some icing on the cake.
deMary überzog den Kuchen mit einer Glasur.
Tom bought two chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing and gave one of them to Mary.
Do you like chocolate icing?
That was just icing on the cake.
ruЭто была вишенка на торте.
Mary put the icing on the cake.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
Gerund of the verb to ice.Gerund of the verb to ice.
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Forms
plural: icingsSynonyms
4 synonyms- (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal:icing the puck
- a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes:frostingice
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface:frost
Word family
10 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable