Floe

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  • noun. An ice floe.
  • noun. A segment that has separated from such an ice mass.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Ice formed by the freezing of the surface-water of the polar oceans, and subsequently broken up by the action of the winds and the waves into tabular masses of greater or less size; also, a piece of such ice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A low, flat mass of floating ice.
  • noun. a seal (Phoca fÅ“tida).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A low, flat mass of floating ice.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea
  • Word Usage
    "The fate of three men afloat on a floe is too horrible to think about."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ice mass  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au  Beau  Bio  Bo  Bordeaux  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    atte  floes  fote  glacier  hedde  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Dry Ice  berg  cake  calf  cryosphere