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Definition: Floe |
FloeNoun1. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "floe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Any relatively flat piece of sea ice 20 m or more across. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An area of ice, other than fast ice whose limits are within sight. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Hydrologic | An accumulation of frazil flocs (also known as a "pan") or a single piece of broken ice. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FloeSynonym: ice floe (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Floe |
| English words defined with "floe": growler ♦ ice field ♦ Land ice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "floe": hummocky ice ♦ standing floe. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ice floe passing by loaded with trash and waste from Point Barrow, 80 miles to the west. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Weddell seals on ice floe. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Goldes hunter on skis on ice floe, with spear and rifle. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Floe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Floe" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "floe" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Floe | Last name | 170 | 51,845 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Floe, WV |
Expressions using "floe": floe berg ♦ Floe rat ♦ ice floe ♦ standing floe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "floe": floe-ice. | |
Ending with "floe": ice-floe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
floe | 12 |
floe trailer | 10 |
dock floe | 9 |
boat floe lift | 5 |
floe international | 3 |
da floe hit | 3 |
floe ice | 3 |
floe lake | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "floe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fushë akulli. (various references) | |
Arabic | الطوف جليدي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ледено поле (ice field), леден къс, плаваща ледена маса (float). (various references) | |
Chinese | 冰排 (ice floe, ice raft). (various references) | |
Czech | kra. (various references) | |
Danish | isflage. (various references) | |
Dutch | ijsschol. (various references) | |
Finnish | lautta (raft, ferry), jäälautta. (various references) | |
French | floe (ice floe), glace flottante, glaçon (flake of ice, ice floe), banquise flottante, banquise. (various references) | |
German | Eisscholle (ice floe). (various references) | |
Greek | floe, παγετώνασ (glacier), επιπλέων ογκόπαγος, επιπλέων (afloat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שדה קרח צף. (various references) | |
Hungarian | úszó jégtábla (ice floe, ice-float, ice-floe, pack ice). (various references) | |
Italian | lastra di ghiaccio galleggiante, banchisa galleggiante. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 流氷 (drift ice, ice floe), 浮氷 (ice floe), 氷原 (ice field, ice floe, snow field), 氷原 (ice field, ice floe, snow field), 氷塊 (block of ice, ice floe, lump of ice). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひょうかい (block of ice, frozen sea, ice floe, icy waters, illustration by tables, lump of ice, melting, thawing), ひょうげん (a comment, critical remarks, expression, ice field, ice floe, presentation, representation, snow field), ふひょう (a tag or label, appended chart or table or graph, attached list, bad reputation, buoy, disgrace, floating, ice floe, pawn, score, staff, unpopularity), りゅうひょう (drift ice, ice floe). (various references) | |
Manx | floddey rioee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | isflak. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oeflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | massa de gelo flutuante (iceberg), campo de gelo (icefield). (various references) | |
Romanian | sloi de gheaţã (iceberg, icicle, pan), câmp de gheaţã. (various references) | |
Russian | плавучая льдина (ice floe, ice-floe). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | velika santa. (various references) | |
Spanish | témpano flotante (icepack), témpano de hielo (icefloe), bandejón (divisional island, traffic island), banca flotante de hielo. (various references) | |
Swedish | isflak (ice floe, ice-floe). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzen buz kütlesi (floating ice, ice floe, ice pack). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крижане поле (icefield), плавуча крижина (icefloe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tảng băng nổi (ice-floe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "floe": floes. (additional references) | |
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"Floe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eleo, eloe, fboa, Fclo, feol, flae, fle, fleem, flie, floam, floaw, flob, flocet, flod, floed, floge, floin, floj, flok, flom, floox, flope, flor, flore, flos, flose, flot, Flote, Flotex, flou, floue, floun, floy, flua, fluge, flye, foeb, foeg, fole, Folea, folke, folse, folv, folye, fule, Fullove, Fylke, Iflo, uloe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "floe" (pronounced flō") |
| 3 | f l ō" | flow, overflow. |
| 2 | -l ō" | aglow, below, blow, glow, hello, lo, low, Lowe, plough, rouleau, sloe, slow, tableau, tableaux. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-l-o" | |
-1 letter: elf, foe, ole. | |
-2 letters: ef, el, lo, oe, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-l-o" | |
+1 letter: felon, floes. | |
+2 letters: befool, befoul, coffle, enfold, felloe, fellow, felons, felony, filose, flexor, flooey, flooie, florae, floret, flowed, flower, foaled, fodgel, foetal, foible, foiled, folate, folded, folder, folkie, folles, fondle, fooled, footle, foozle, fouled, fouler, foveal, fowled, fowler, golfed, golfer, loafed, loafer, lofted, lofter, olefin, reflow, refold, rolfed, rolfer, woeful, wolfed, wolfer. | |
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