floe
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- noun
- /floʊ/
- UK
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- Then came another danger, as their floe swayed back and forth, helpless against the force of the waves.
- an ice floe
Examples
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If we can climb onto an ice floe behind it, we might be saved.
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Professor Andrews saw the river below and ice floes slowly floating down it.
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"Jump as I do, as far into the center of the floe as you can.
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Can he see the floe?
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If we can climb onto an ice floe behind it, we might be saved.
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He could land on an ice floe and take off again.
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Two penguins standing on an ice floe.
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Dense, large ice floes with fractures dominated the eastern Bering Sea.
Academic text (1997) -
Farther out in the strait, large ice floes, wide and flat, glided silently over the water.
Fiction book (2000) -
Gigantic ice floes shot many meters into the air as the ice reluctantly parted.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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A flat piece of frozen water that floats on the sea or large lake
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Etymology
The word floe comes from an old Scandinavian word flo meaning 'flood' or 'flow', and is similar to the English word flow. So a floe is a large, flat sheet of ice that floats and moves on the sea, like a slow 'flow' of ice.