Ice-cap Synonyms

A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. icecap

Words Related to Ice-cap

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ice-caps
  2. vatnajokull
  3. ice-sheets
  4. ice-fields
  5. glacier

Ice-cap Sentence Examples

  • Over the deepest valleys of the land in the interior this ice-cap must be at least 6000 or 7000 ft.

  • The ice-cap of Greenland must to some extent be considered as a viscous mass, which, by the vertical pressure in its interior, is pressed outwards and slowly flows towards the coasts, just as a mass of pitch placed on a table and left to itself will in the course of time flow outwards towards all sides.

  • Only occasionally there emerge lofty rocks, isolated but not completely covered by the ice-cap; such rocks are known as nunataks (an Eskimo word).

  • This ice-cap had on the tableland a thickness of 2300 to 2600 ft.

  • The drainage of the interior of Greenland is thus partly given off in the solid form of icebergs, partly by the melting of the snow and ice on the surface of the ice-cap, especially near its western margin, and to some slight extent also by the melting produced on its under side by the interior heat of the earth.

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