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FLOTAGE

Definition: FLOTAGE

FLOTAGE

Noun

1. That which floats on the sea or in rivers.

2. The state of floating.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Flotage \Flo"tage\, noun. [Old French expression flotage, French flottage, from flotter to float.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: FLOTAGE

English words defined with "FLOTAGE": Floatage. (references)

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Modern Translation: FLOTAGE

Language Translations for "FLOTAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

transport mbi ujë (floatage), pjesë e mbiujshme e anijes (floatage). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

част на кораб над водата (floatage), останки от корабокрушение (wreckage), плавей (drift, driftage, drift-wood, float, floatage, flotsam), плавателна способност (floatage). (various references)

   

Czech

  

plovoucí vìci (floatage, flotation). (various references)

   

German

  

Schwimmen (swim, float, floatage, swimming, to take a swim). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

úszás (bathe, swim, swimming). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nuotare (swim, float). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otageflay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

forma ascensional (buoyancy, lift), flutuabilidade (floatage), vivacidade (vivacity). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

плавучесть (buoyancy, floatability, floatage, floatation, flotation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

flotabilidad (buoyancy), nadar (swim, float). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüzme gücü, yüzme (bathing, flotation, natation, natatory, swim, swimming), yüzen sahipsiz eşya (flotsam, flotsam and jetsam), yüzen kütleler, geminin su üstünde kalan kısmı, gemi enkazı (derelict, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, Lagan, shipwreck, wrack, wreck, wreckage). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

плавання на поверхні (floatage). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FLOTAGE

Derivations

Words beginning with "FLOTAGE": flotages. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FLOTAGE"

Words rhyming with "FLOTAGE" (pronounced 'Flo"tage'): Cottage, Hostage, Mutage, Pontage, Pottage, Putage, Voltage. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FLOTAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-l-o-t"

-1 letter: foetal, folate, gelato, legato.

-2 letters: aglet, aloft, fagot, fetal, float, flota, gloat, togae.

-3 letters: alef, aloe, alto, egal, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, flag, flat, flea, floe, flog, foal, gale, gaol, gate, gelt, geta, goal, goat, golf, late, leaf, left, loaf, loft, loge, lota, ogle, olea, tael, tale, teal, tela, toea, toga, tola.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-l-o-t"
 

+1 letter: floatage, flotages, gatefold.

 

+2 letters: afterglow, flageolet, flagstone, floatages, floodgate, gatefolds.

 

+3 letters: afterglows, flageolets, flagstones, floodgates, profligate, refloating.

 

+4 letters: allografted, defoliating, exfoliating, forgettable, profligates.

 

+5 letters: deflagration, festivalgoer, flagellation, forestalling, forgeability, profligately, waterfowling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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