Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

FLOTANT

Definition: FLOTANT

FLOTANT

Adjective

1. Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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).

Top     

Frequency of Internet Expressions: FLOTANT

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

flotant plancher

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Rhyming with "FLOTANT"

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)

Top     

Anagrams: FLOTANT

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: FLOTANT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4C 4F 54 41 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-..    ---    -    .-    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40464954354854

Top     



Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.