MEANING
A sheet or detached piece of ice floating on water.
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Words that belong together
- drifting floe
- ice floe
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A drifting floe struck the hull below the waterline.
She watched the ice floe turn slowly beneath the bridge.
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- Base
- floe
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular floe; plural floes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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