(cooking) 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.

present participle of ice

plural of icing

(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form. / (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.

(transitive) To cool with ice, as a beverage. / (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze. / (transitive) To make icy; to freeze. / (transitive, slang) To murder.

(astronomy) Initialism of Index Catalogue (part of the NGC survey of J.L.E. Dreyer’s update to the Herschel General Catalogue).

Initialism of independent contractor. / Initialism of irreducible complexity. / (chemistry) Initialism of intercalation compound. / (chemistry) Initialism of ion chromatography.

Pseudo-acronym of icy. / Initialism of in charge. / (role-playing games, fandom slang) Initialism of in character.

Pseudo-acronym of I see.

With ice added. / Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice. / Covered with icing.