и́ней — meaning in English
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Senses
и́ней is used for these senses in English:
- frost A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- hoar frost (specifically, meteorology) Water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation when the air is cold and moist to form a white deposit on exposed surfaces.
- rime Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
frost — full definition
- noun A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces exposed to freezing air.
- noun Freezing weather cold enough to produce this layer of ice.
- verb To cover a cake or other baked good with icing.
- verb To become covered with a thin layer of ice.
rime — full definition
- noun In the archaic plural form rimes: originally, frozen dew that formed a white coating on surfaces exposed to it; hoar frost.
- noun A thin, slippery layer covering something.
- noun Grey or white hair that shows a person has grown old.
- noun Ice that forms when cold droplets of fog freeze quickly onto a cold surface.
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