[syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Arctic \Arc"tic\, n.
1. The arctic circle.
[1913 Webster]
2. A warm waterproof overshoe. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Arctic \Arc"tic\, a. [OE. artik, OF. artique, F. arctique, L.
arcticus, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? a bear, also a northern
constellation so called; akin to L. ursus bear, Skr. ?ksha.]
Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation
called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole,
circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night,
temperature.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel to the
equator, 23[deg] 28' from the north pole. This and the
antarctic circle are called the polar circles, and
between these and the poles lie the frigid zones. See
Zone.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Arctic
adj 1: of or relating to the Arctic; "the Arctic summer" [syn:
north-polar, Arctic]
2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid
waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands";
"polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial,
icy, polar]
n 1: the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on
the North Pole [syn: Arctic, Arctic Zone, North Frigid
Zone]
2: a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
[syn: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber, gumshoe]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "arctic":
Siberian, aestival, affectless, algid, anesthetized, antarctic,
austral, autistic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter,
bitterly cold, bleak, blunt, boreal, brisk, brumal, canicular,
catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death,
cold as ice, cold as marble, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool,
crisp, cutting, dispassionate, drugged, dull, east, eastbound,
easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, emotionally dead,
emotionless, equinoctial, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frosted,
frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, heartless, hibernal, hiemal,
hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immovable,
impassible, impassive, inclement, inexcitable, insusceptible, keen,
meridional, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, nonemotional,
north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern,
northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly,
northwestern, numbing, objective, obtuse, occidental, oriental,
out of season, out of touch, passionless, penetrating, piercing,
pinching, raw, rigorous, seasonal, self-absorbed, severe, sharp,
sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, soulless, south, southbound,
southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern,
southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, spiritless,
spring, springlike, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike,
summerly, summery, supercooled, unaffectionate, unemotional,
unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate,
unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic,
untouchable, vernal, west, westbound, westerly, western,
westernmost, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Arctic
A real-time functional language, used
for music synthesis.
["Arctic: A Functional Language for Real-Time Control",
R.B. Dannenberg, Conf Record 1984 ACM Symp on LISP and
Functional Prog, ACM].
(1995-01-16)