Ice Floe

  

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Ice Floe

Definition: Ice Floe

Ice Floe

Noun

1. 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.
 

Synonym: Ice Floe

Synonym: floe (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ice Floe

English words defined with "ice floe": growlerice fieldLand ice. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ice floe": hummocky icestanding floe. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ice Floe

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Books

  • Frozen Terror Ice Fisherman Adrift Helplessly on an Ice Floe (Outdoor Life Classical Stories) [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Life on a cool plastic ice floe (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Ice Floe

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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.

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

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Modern Translations: Ice Floe

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

Albanian

  

bllok akulli notues. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

плоска плаваща ледена маса, плаващ леден къс. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

冰' (ice raft). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ledová kra (iceberg). (various references)

   

Danish

  

isskodde (flake of ice). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ijsschots (flake of ice). (various references)

   

French

  

glaçon (block of ice, flake of ice, ice cube, iceberg, icecube, icicle), floe. (various references)

   

German

  

eisscholle (flake of ice, floe). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κομμάτι πάγου (flake of ice). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

úszó jégtábla (floe, ice-float, ice-floe, pack ice). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

流氷 (drift ice), 浮氷 , 氷原 (ice field, snow field), 氷塊 (block of ice, lump of ice). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひょうかい (block of ice, frozen sea, icy waters, illustration by tables, lump of ice, melting, thawing), ひょう'" (a comment, critical remarks, expression, ice field, 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, pawn, score, staff, unpopularity), りゅうひょう (drift ice). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iceay oeflay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

льдина (block of ice), плавучая льдина (floe, ice-floe). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

santa leda (block of ice, drift ice, glare, iceberg). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

isflak (floe, ice-floe). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüzen buz kütlesi (floating ice, floe, ice pack), buz parçası (ice pack). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Ice Floe

Misspellings

"Ice Floe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Icefloe. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Ice Floe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-l-o"

-2 letters: oleic.

-3 letters: ceil, clef, coif, coil, cole, feel, fice, fico, file, filo, flee, flic, floc, floe, foci, foil, lice, lief, life, loci.

-4 letters: cee, cel, col, eel, elf, fee, fie, fil, foe, ice, lee, lei, lie, oil, ole.

-5 letters: ef, el, if, li, lo, oe, of.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-l-o"
 

+3 letters: deflection, overfacile, reflection.

 

+4 letters: closefisted, deflections, fluorescein, forcepslike, officialese, reflections.

 

+5 letters: complexified, complexifies, conferential, efflorescing, fluoresceins, forcibleness, genuflection, nonfluencies, noninfluence, officeholder, officialeses, reflectional, reflectorize, voicefulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ice Floe


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

49 63 65      46 6C 6F 65

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

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000110 01101100 01101111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#70 &#108 &#111 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0063 0065      0046 006C 006F 0065

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

436971240788171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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