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Definition: FLOTANT |
FLOTANTAdjective1. Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant. |
Etymology: Flotant \Flo"tant\, adjective. [Old French expression flotant, French flottant, present participle of flotter to float.]. (references) |
Crosswords: FLOTANT |
| Non-English Usage: "FLOTANT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (floating). |
| 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 |
flotant plancher | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "FLOTANT" (pronounced 'Flo"tant'): Amplectant, Blatant, Gestant, humectant, important, Montant, Natant, Nutant, Octant, Pregustant, reluctant, Remontant, Reptant, Restant, Saltant, Sectant, self-important, sextant, Spectant, statant, supernatant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-n-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: fontal. | |
-2 letters: aloft, float, flota, notal, talon, tanto, tolan, tonal, total. | |
-3 letters: alto, fano, flan, flat, foal, font, loaf, loan, loft, lota, nota, toft, tola. | |
-4 letters: aft, alt, ant, att, fan, fat, fon, lat, lot, not, oaf, oat, oft, tan, tao, tat, ton, tot. | |
-5 letters: al, an, at, fa, la, lo, na, no, of, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-n-o-t-t" | |
+2 letters: flotation. | |
+3 letters: filtration, flirtation, floatation, flotations, frontality. | |
+4 letters: battlefront, filtrations, flatfooting, flirtations, floatations, fluctuation, fortunately, infiltrator, stagflation. | |
+5 letters: battlefronts, facilitation, felicitation, fictionality, fluctuations, footfaulting, frontalities, infiltration, infiltrators, inflationist, stagflations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4C 4F 54 41 4E 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-.. --- - .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001100 01001111 01010100 01000001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F L O T A N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004C 004F 0054 0041 004E 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40464954354854 |

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