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Definition: FLOATING ISLAND |
FLOATING ISLAND1. A dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs. |
Crosswords: FLOATING ISLAND |
| Specialty definitions using "FLOATING ISLAND": Delos ♦ Phædria ♦ sadd, sudd. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The word, which I interpret the Flying or Floating Island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
floating island | 22 |
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| Language | Translations for "FLOATING ISLAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 浮き島 (floating mass of waterweeds). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うきしま (floating mass of waterweeds). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatingflay islanday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gossypium barbadense. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-o-s-t" | |
-3 letters: indagations. | |
-4 letters: allantoins, flatlining, indagation, inflations, insolating, installing, sandalling, tillandsia. | |
-5 letters: adnations, agnations, allantoin, allantois, analogist, antinodal, diagonals, diallings, dialogist, dilations, fandangos, flatlands, flatlings, foliating, fondlings, gladiolas, illations, infalling, inflating, inflation, infolding, intaglios, islanding, isolating, ligations, nailfolds, nationals, nostalgia, sandaling, santolina. | |
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