Câu hỏi về câu ví dụ, định nghĩa và cách sử dụng của "Icy"

A: It usually means someone is acting "cold" towards you, which is just another way to say they're not being very friendly! It could also mean that as a person they're not very friendly or social, therefore they're "icy/cold".

A: Ice is a slang word for diamonds. Icy originally meant jewelry that is full of diamonds - expensive, but recently the term has been used as a way to describe any clothes/accessories that might be expensive or cool looking.

A: "The elements" refer to weather, especially the bad parts such as storms and extreme heat/cold.

A: It does not make much sense. But it would mean “I know I am cold (heartless)”.

A: Did you mean to ask what the slang term “I’m icy?” Means? If so, it can mean:

I’m not kind.

I have a lot of jewelry.

A: They are slightly different. The first one suggests the person is in control of themselves. "slip by" is different from just "slip" because it suggests they are still moving in the direction they want to go. In the second one "I almost fell over" suggests a lack of control. And that this is bad, rather than good. Therefore, it is different from the first.

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You can say “She slipped on icy stairs”

But you would normally say “she slipped on the icy stairs”

For frozen

You can say “she slipped on frozen stairs”

But you would normally say “she slipped on the frozen stairs”

They both work. But using the is more correct.

Usually, you would not say frozen stairs. As stairs can’t freeze. Water freezes on the stairs. And water that’s frozen is ice.

Stairs + ice = Icy stairs.

So just say “she slipped on the icy stairs”

A: Icy is more extreme than cold. Cold is like water. Icy is a lower temperature than cold and is like winter air. But icy could also mean an object covered in ice.

For example, you could say 'my food is cold, please could you warm it'
And you could say 'it is icy outside, so wear a coat and don't slip'.

A: I have never heard that and I live in the coldest part of the contiguous 48 states. 😄 We say "The roads are icy." "The roads are slick"
Are you thinking "ICE bahn" as in train?

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A: going down his slippery steps

A: × We hanged around on the icy frozen river slipping sliding around.
✓ We hung around on the icy frozen river slipping sliding around.

In this sense, the past tense of "hang" is "hung." If someone is executed by hanging, it is said that they were hanged.

A: "Hidden in this icy landscape belies a powerful force"

Belies means, to fail to give a true impression of something.

A: Icy = “cy” sounds like “c” in abc song.

I see = “I” intonation emphasis, stronger “I” sound. “See” is held longer.

A: Both "form" and "forms" are correct here, but for different reasons. Compare:

"The icy comet melts in the sunlight and releases dust particles, which form a long tail."
= dust particles form a long tail

"The ice comet melts in the sunlight and releases dust particles, which forms a long tail."
= the process (of melting and releasing dust particles) forms a long tail

In my personal opinion, "form" sounds better than "forms," but both sound natural to me.