what is the meaning of " ICICLES"?

Answer 1

Icicles form when the air is around freezing level. The areas not in direct sunlight will be cool and below freezing, while the sun melts ice and snow on more exposed surfaces. The melting water dripping down along edges refreezes in the cool air, forming a column of ice - the icicle. If icicles are attached to a structure other than a large volume of ice, they usually don't grow very large before breaking by their own weight.

Answer 2

assuming that this question is not a code word for some drug, and guessing that the asker lives in a very warm climate:

when the temperature falls below 0 degrees centigrade, water changes its state to ice. If it should rain at about that temperature, ice will form on the roof and while it's in a part-solid/part-liquid state, it'll drip off the roof and form icicles. Also when there's snow on the roof some days it'll warm up enough for the snow to start to melt, but not be warm enough for the drip to remain liquid, so it freezes into strips of ice that hang off the edge of the roof. Icicles also form on tree branches, etc. Of course when it warms up sufficiently the ice will melt and the snow will too.

Here is a link to a series of pictures of icicles:
http://images.google.com/images?q=icicles&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

(Run your mouse across the link and look for the entire link to appear at the bottom of your monitor screen. Even though the URL displayed here is truncated, if you click it, you will be taken to the icicle images.)

Answer 3

For backbiter

Stalagmites and stalactites are like ants in your pants. The mites go up and the tights come down


Doug

Answer 4

they are popsicles with no flavor, produced by nature. when water is dripping, and the temperature is cold enough, they are formed much like stalagmites, or is it stalagtites, i never could get that right.