Floss

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Dental floss.
  • n. Short or waste silk fibers, especially from the outer surface of the cocoon of a silkworm.
  • n. Soft, loosely twisted thread, as of silk or cotton, used in embroidery.
  • n. A downy or silky fibrous substance, such as corn silk or silk cotton.
  • v. To clean between (teeth) with dental floss.
  • verb-intransitive. To use dental floss.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small stream of water.
  • n. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
  • n. a thread, used to clean the area between the teeth
  • n. silk fibres
  • n. the fibres covering a corn cob
  • n. Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
  • n. Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
  • v. To clean the area between the teeth using floss.
  • v. To show off, especially by exhibiting one’s wealth or talent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
  • n. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
  • n. A body feather of an ostrich. Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male.
  • n. A small stream of water.
  • n. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small stream of water: used as a name in the extract.
  • n. A fluid glass floating upon iron in a puddling-furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxids and earths.
  • n. Same as floss-hole.
  • n. A downy or silky substance inclosed by the husks of certain plants, as maize and milkweed.
  • n. Same as floss-silk.
  • n. The leaves of red canary-grass; also, the common rush.
  • n. The loose silk which envelops the cocoon-pod of the silkworm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. use dental floss to clean
  • n. a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
  • n. a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
  • Verb Form
    flossed    flossing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cleanse    clean    thread    yarn   
    Variant
    silk   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abbas    Alsace    Bos    Fosse    Haas    Hamas    Kos    Os    Ross    abbas   
    Same Context
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