floppy
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈflɑːpi/
- Archaic
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disquete
- I need your client book and your whole C-drive backed up onto a floppy.
- floppy drive
- floppy disk
- 1.44MB floppy
Now, for many children, they've never seen a floppy disk or one of those little harder floppy disks in their life.
- Now, for many children, they've never seen a floppy disk or one of those little harder floppy disks in their life.
- Oh oh okay, so before you got your software on CDs, you got it on floppies.
- Up next, Silverstone has now formally announced again its retro floppy disk drive case.
- So I needed multiple floppy disks to build a novel and I lost them.
- That's right, the US nuclear program still uses floppy disks.
- At this time, everything was done with floppy disks, which are old technologies that that could store things that didn't have much capacity.
- I put your name would be Bertha Train Floppy disk.
- A disc jockey, a floppy disk.
- Today, you know, you have billions and billions of times that floppy disk in your smartphone in your pocket.
- And sometimes you have to remove the floppy disk drive or whatever the I forgot all the crazy stories of Steve Jobs, like making wild design decisions.
Examples
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Your computer at work can read this floppy, Sidney.
Fiction book (1997) -
At this time, everything was done with floppy disks, which are old technologies that that could store things that didn't have much capacity.
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Some people may not know what a floppy is, but they sure know it means "save" when they see it.
Blog text (18) -
Wait, but where am I going to put my floppy disk here?
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Never put a floppy near a magnet.
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I told the hotel manager that I'd lost a 3" floppy of valuable but not classified data.
Fiction book (1997) -
Yeah, like kids these days don't know what a save button floppy disk is.
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The 5 1/4" floppy is obsolete and probably won't come on any system you buy anyway.
Blog text (11) -
After awakening the computer from its power-save slumber, he copied the add-in from the floppy back to the internal hard drive, overwriting the existing one.
Fiction book (1999) -
I found an old floppy disk in my drawer that still had some files from college.
Synonyms
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2.8
A flat round object that stores computer data using magnets
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3.7
A thin plastic square that holds a flat magnetic disk for storing computer files
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7.7
A small square plastic case that holds a thin magnetic disk for storing computer files
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3.7
A flat round object covered with magnetic material that stores data
Compounds
- Archaic
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3.7
A thin plastic square that holds a flat magnetic disk for storing computer files
Surface Forms
Morphology
floppy = floppy disk (semi-transparent) = flop + y
This noun arose by clipping the compound 'floppy disk' (floppy + disk); the link to the adjective 'floppy' and 'disk' is clear if one knows the compound, but it is a technical historic term not transparently inferable to all learners.
Etymology
Floppy for a computer disk comes from the thin disk inside being 'flexible' and able to flop or bend, so people started calling the whole item a floppy. That's why a floppy was a flat, bendable disk used to store computer files on older machines.