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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Jeanette Winterson

Meaning of "floe" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLOE

Probably from Norwegian flo slab, layer, from Old Norse.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FLOE

floe  [fləʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Floe is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLOE


below
bɪˈləʊ
blow
bləʊ
buffalo
ˈbʌfəˌləʊ
fellow
ˈfɛləʊ
flow
fləʊ
follow
ˈfɒləʊ
hallo
həˈləʊ
halo
ˈheɪləʊ
hello
hɛˈləʊ
hollow
ˈhɒləʊ
lo
ləʊ
low
ləʊ
Oslo
ˈɒzləʊ
overflow
ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ
polo
ˈpəʊləʊ
pueblo
ˈpwɛbləʊ
slow
sləʊ
solo
ˈsəʊləʊ
unfollow
ʌnˈfɒləʊ
yellow
ˈjɛləʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLOE

flocculi
flocculus
floccus
flock
flock paper
flock wallpaper
flockless
flocky
Flodden
Flodden Field
flog
flog a dead horse
flog to death
floggable
flogged
flogger
flogging
flokati
flong
flood

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLOE

aloe
American aloe
canoe
Chloe
Coe
Daphnis and Chloe
doe
felloe
foe
hoe
horseshoe
ice floe
Joe
kyloe
Monroe
Poe
shoe
sloe
Tahoe
toe

Synonyms and antonyms of floe in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «floe» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLOE

Find out the translation of floe to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of floe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «floe» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

浮冰
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

témpano
570 millions of speakers

English

floe
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शिला खण्ड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رقاقه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

льдина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

banquisa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাসমান তুষারস্তর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

banquise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Floe
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Scholle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

浮氷
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빙원
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Floe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tảng nước đá trôi trên mặt biển
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

floe
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झटका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yüzen buz kütlesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lastra di ghiaccio galleggiante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kra
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

крижина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sloi de gheață
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παγετώνας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vlok
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

isflak
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

isflak
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of floe

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOE»

The term «floe» is regularly used and occupies the 74.344 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about floe

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QUOTES WITH «FLOE»

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Jeanette Winterson
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOE»

Discover the use of floe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to floe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ice Floe II: International Poetry of the Far North
With contributors that include former Alaska poet laureate Tom Sexton, Riina Katajavuori, Yuri Vaella, Gunnar Randversson, and dozens of other established and emerging poets, this wonderful collection of voices from the northern latitudes ...
Shannon Gramse, Sarah Kirk, 2011
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The Ice Floe
Mallory Bone, "The Eskimo," together with her cohorts, "Dr. Death" and "The Candy Man," assist in the suicide of the terminally ill. Is she an angel of mercy or merely a delusional serial killer?
Joyce Tracksler, 2004
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Life on an Icefloe
Diary kept by the leader of the wintering party on the Soviet North Pole Expedition, 1937-38; includes an anonymous biographical sketch of Papanin.
Иван Дмитриевич Папанин, 1947
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Water Treatment Unit Processes: Physical and Chemical
11.3.2.5 Floe Breakup The net effect of the flocculation process is the aggregation rate minus breakup rate (Parker et al., 1972, p. 79). Two kinds of breakup are: ( 1 ) surface erosion of primary particles, and (2) deformation and floe ...
David W. Hendricks, 2006
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Marine Conservation: Science, Policy, and Management
High-resolution imagery showed the floe concentration to be >1 km in size. Prior imagery allowed backtracking to the origin off the mouth of the Anadyr River on 9 May in the Gulf of Anadyr. Storm winds superimposed on ocean currents on 12 ...
G. Carleton Ray, Jerry McCormick-Ray, 2013
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Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Measurements, ...
When the material deposits, overburden, gelling, and consolidation alter floe properties. As a result, there is only a remote connection between the density and strength of the suspended floes and the erodibility of floes at the bed surface, ...
Environmental and Water Resources Institute (U.S.). ASCE Task Committee to Expand and Update Manual 54, Marcelo H. García, 2008
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Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New ...
0.12 2.10 .80 .0010 .0078 .0000 .0000 .11 0.6 e 1172 1903 May 3 Slight Floe, fine Veg. 0.2 2.80 1.50 .0014 .0198 .0000 .0000 .15 0.9 / 1178 May 4 Slight Fine floe. Veg. 0.15 5.00 2.00 .0014 .0158 .0000 .0000 .15 0.9 1174 May 4 Slight Fine  ...
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Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's ...
Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on the Ice-floe, a History of the Polaris Expedition, the Cruise of the Tigress, and Rescue of the Polaris Survivors. To which is Added a General Arctic Chronology Euphemia Vale Blake.
Euphemia Vale Blake, 1874
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Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers ...
Cloudy, then opalescent with floe. ppt.( Cloudy, then clear with floe. ppt. Cloudy, then clear with mucil. dep. Opaque, then clear with mucil. dep. Cloudy, then clear with mucil. dep. Cloud}-, then clear with floe. ppt. Cloudy, opal., then slight floe.
J. O. Braithwaite, 1891
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SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge ...
... ̇git) pressure ridge formed on shorefast ice Iunilauraq (iunilaurat) small pressure ridge formed within shorefast ice Iunivak (iunivait) very large pressure ridge on shorefast ice Kaivsraaqtuaq ice floe that is rotating in the current; large ice floe ...
Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term floe is used in the context of the following news items.
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Carl Safina's 'Beyond Words': Stories of animal intelligence | Newsday
In the North Pacific, if an orca spots a Weddell seal on an ice floe, it sometimes rallies the pod. The whales will swim away some 150 feet, turn ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
2
LETTER: Writer consigns elderly to death
He suggests getting rid of farm subsidies. I think he wishes we elderly would go to Alaska in the winter and get on an ice floe and drift out to sea ... «Cherry Hill Courier Post, Jul 15»
3
Goin' To The Lake: WCCO Goes To McGregor (Day 1) « CBS …
In 1983, at age 19, Wayne Floe started Floe International by making a better boat lift. Then he made a better dock. And now, his prodcts are all ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
4
Obamacare's Bill Is Due - Slate Magazine
Oregon might be the first health insurance exchange equivalent of a penguin getting shoved off an ice floe, but it won't be alone in the ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
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'Creatures of the Rock': veterinarian shares unusual animal tales …
The bear, which arrived on the island after travelling south on an ice floe, posed a danger a to the population. But before shipping the animal ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
6
One of Shell's Arctic Drilling Ships Hits a Snag
Female walrus and her pup rest on an ice floe in the Chukchi Sea, June 2010. (Photo by USGS). Shell's plan calls for the first two wells to be ... «Environment News Service, Jul 15»
7
The sky's the limit in the game of drones
University of Tasmania's Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies are also planning to use drones in a pilot study to determine ice floe size ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
8
Cape Dorset boater recounts harrowing Canada Day accident
When Alariaq looked toward the floe his son was stranded on, it was ... By the time he got there, says Alariaq, the floe had already drifted about ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
9
Reeks Island 'face' in the rock
One of the kayakers, Sandy Floe, described what they found in an email to Parks Canada: "I went in closer to shore...through kelp to explore a ... «Alberni Valley Times, Jun 15»
10
Pope Francis wins rational argument over climate, too
It is a powerful and affecting passage — more so, perhaps, if one were to go read it aloud on some shrunken Alaskan ice floe, some cracked ... «Columbia Daily Tribune, Jun 15»

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