Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellowish glare in the sky over an ice field.
- noun A coastal ice cliff.
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- noun A
glare in thesky caused byreflection of light from anice field
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Examples
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In a polar phenomenon called iceblink, clouds are lit from underneath by sunlight reflected up from a patch of pack ice in a contrasting dark area of water.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In a polar phenomenon called iceblink, clouds are lit from underneath by sunlight reflected up from a patch of pack ice in a contrasting dark area of water.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The prospect from the crow's-nest began to assume a very unpromising appearance, the whole of the western horizon, from north round to S.b. E., being completely covered with ice, consisting of heavy and extensive floes, beyond which no indication of water was visible; instead of which there was a bright and dazzling iceblink extending from shore to shore.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 William Edward Parry 1822
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The whole of the 14th was occupied in an unsuccessful attempt to find an opening in the ice to the westward, which remained perfectly close and compact, with a bright iceblink over it.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 William Edward Parry 1822
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The thermometer was at 27° on the night of the 22nd, with ice in the boat; and in the afternoon we saw an iceblink, a beautiful effulgence or reflection of light over the floating ice, to the extent of forty or fifty miles.
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When he first came upon iceblink, Nansen wrote, 'I felt instinctively that I stood on the threshold of a new world.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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When he first came upon iceblink, Nansen wrote, 'I felt instinctively that I stood on the threshold of a new world.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Many areas of the San Fernando Valley also have MCM homes including homes designed by Palmer and Kriesel. iceblink on January 15th 2009 at 1: 50pm view iceblink's
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For more information about Ice Blink visit www. thesailingchannel.tv / iceblink /.
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All this a white shine somewhere, an iceblink of memory, and then the words themselves, Rey’s words, being spoken by the man in the chair nearby.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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