ice cubes

Drink cooling chunks

Ice cubes are small blocks of frozen water used to chill drinks.

The standard shape is roughly cubic, though ice cube trays and machines produce various forms—crescents, spheres, crushed ice.

I'll have a whiskey with two ice cubes.

To break the ice is to ease social tension, but ice cubes themselves don't figure in the idiom.

Related

silicone mold · water · freezer · clink · coolant · whiskey · solidify · dilute · crushed · condensation · refrigerate · mixology · happy hour · bar cart · cold · frosty · crescent · frozen

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Opposites
temperature/thermal state

ice cubesboiling water

H2O at 212°F

hot water · steam · hot coals · flames · warm water

ice form/shape

ice cubescrushed ice

Pulverized frozen water pieces

ice blocks · shaved ice · ice chips · ice sheets · block ice

physical state of water

ice cubesliquid water

H2O in flowing state

water vapor · steam

Family

ice, iced, cubes, iciness, icemaker, icehouse, iceless, iceman, icemen

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G