📖 F — The English dictionary · page 27

flop — Everyday, meaning 1: To flop is to fall or sit down heavily and loosely, because you are tired.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To flop is to hang down loosely.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A flop is something that fails completely, like a film nobody watches.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To flop is to fail.↗ Example: I flopped onto my bed after the race.↗ · The puppy's ears flop over its eyes.↗ · The new film was a flop.↗ · Our cake flopped and went flat.↗ · The fish flopped about on the boat.↗ · He did a belly flop into the pool.↗ · She wore flip-flops to the beach.↗ · Flop! and the frog appeared out of the water close beside him.↗

floppy — Everyday, meaning 1: Soft and hanging down loosely, not stiff: «a dog with floppy ears».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Weak and limp: «a floppy plant needs water».↗ Example: Our puppy has long floppy ears.↗ · Wear a floppy hat in the sun.↗ · The plant went floppy because I forgot to water it.↗ · The rag doll is soft and floppy.↗ · My lettuce is all floppy now.↗ · Grandpa saved his work on a floppy disk long ago.↗

flora — Everyday, meaning 1: All the plants that grow in a particular place or at a particular time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The tiny living things, especially bacteria, that live in a part of the body: «gut flora».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Flora is a girl's name; Flora was also the Roman goddess of flowers.↗ Example: The flora of the rainforest includes thousands of kinds of plants.↗ · We studied the flora and fauna of the river bank.↗ · Mountain flora must survive cold wind and snow.↗ · The island has strange flora found nowhere else.↗ · Healthy gut flora help you digest food.↗ · Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring.↗ · Flora, who typified the season of Spring, is generally represented as a lovely maiden, garlanded with flowers.↗

floral — Everyday, meaning 1: Floral means made of flowers or decorated with patterns of flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Floral can also describe a smell like flowers.↗ Example: She wore a floral dress to the party.↗ · The church had floral displays for the wedding.↗ · People left floral tributes at the memorial.↗ · The soap has a floral smell.↗ · Grandma's teacups have a floral pattern.↗ · Petals are one of the floral parts we studied.↗

florentine — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) From or about Florence, a famous city in Italy known for art and the Renaissance.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, food) A thin, crisp biscuit made of nuts and candied fruit, often with chocolate on one side.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (cooking, «florentine» after a dish name) Served with spinach, as in «eggs florentine».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A Florentine is a person born in or living in the city of Florence.↗ Example: Florentine artists painted famous pictures in the Renaissance.↗ · Mum bought a box of chocolate florentines.↗ · Dad ordered eggs florentine with spinach.↗ · Michelangelo was a Florentine sculptor.↗ · The Florentine palace had huge painted ceilings.↗ · We baked florentines with almonds and cherries.↗ · The painter was said to be a young Florentine, who had been found in the streets, when a child, by an old glovemaker, who had brought him up.↗

florin — Everyday, meaning 1: A florin is an old coin of money, once worth two shillings in British money, and used in other countries long ago.↗ Example: Not for a hundred florins, was the answer.↗ · As he spoke the donkey gave himself a shake, and down fell the five florins.↗

florist — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who sells and arranges flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shop that sells flowers (often «the florist's»).↗ Example: We bought tulips at the florist.↗ · The florist made a lovely bouquet.↗ · My aunt works as a florist.↗ · The florist's shop smells of roses.↗ · The florist sells roses at two pounds each.↗ · A florist puts 12 roses in every bunch.↗

floss — Everyday, meaning 1: Dental floss is a thin thread used to clean between your teeth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To floss is to clean between your teeth with this thread.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The floss is a dance where you swing your arms and hips from side to side.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Candy floss (British) is a fluffy pink sweet made of spun sugar; Americans call it cotton candy.↗ Example: Floss between your teeth before bed.↗ · The dentist showed me how to floss gently.↗ · I need a new box of dental floss.↗ · Flossing helps keep your gums healthy.↗ · My gums bled a little when I first started to floss.↗ · We bought candy floss at the fair.↗ · Everyone did the floss dance at the party.↗ · Use a fresh piece of floss for each gap.↗

flotation — Everyday, meaning 1: Flotation is floating, or the ability of something to stay on top of water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A flotation device is something that helps you float, like a life jacket or armbands.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (money) A flotation is when a company first sells shares to the public on the stock market.↗ Example: Wear a flotation device on the boat.↗ · Armbands are a flotation aid for beginners.↗ · Air pockets give the raft its flotation.↗ · We tested the flotation of different materials in a tank.↗ · If you fall in cold water, float on your back to stay safe.↗ · The company's flotation made its founders rich.↗

flounder — Everyday, meaning 1: A flounder is a flat sea fish that lies on the seabed, with both eyes on one side of its head.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To flounder means to struggle to move, splashing and stumbling, as in deep mud, snow or water.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To flounder can also mean to struggle and not know what to say or do, as in floundering in a test.↗ Example: The flounder lay hidden on the sandy seabed.↗ · We floundered through the deep snow to the bus stop.↗ · The horse floundered in the muddy field.↗ · I floundered when the teacher asked me a question I hadn't heard.↗ · A young flounder has eyes on both sides, but one eye moves as it grows.↗ · The company floundered after it lost its biggest customer.↗ · The flounder said to him, ‘Listen, fisherman.↗

flour — Everyday, meaning 1: Flour is a white or brown powder made by grinding grain like wheat; it is used to make bread, cakes and pasta.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To flour is to cover with flour: «Flour the table before you roll the dough».↗ Example: A recipe calls for 9 cups of flour.↗ · She already put in 3 cups of flour.↗ · How many more cups of flour does she need?↗ · He bought 5 pounds of flour.↗ · Mix 200 grams of flour with two eggs.↗ · Flour is made by grinding wheat.↗ · My hands were white with flour.↗ · Flour the table so the dough doesn't stick.↗ · Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie.↗ · And if thy offering be a meal-offering of the stewing-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.↗ (Torah LEV.2.7, JPS 1917)↗ · and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth part for the ram, (Torah NUM.29.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And if thy offering be a meal-offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.↗ (Torah LEV.2.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; (Prophets 1KI.5.2, JPS 1917)↗ · So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.↗ (Prophets 2KI.7.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she made haste, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; (Prophets 1SA.28.24, JPS 1917)↗

flourish — Everyday, meaning 1: To flourish is to grow well and be healthy and strong, like plants in good soil.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To flourish is to do very well and be successful, like a business or a person.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To flourish something is to wave it around to show it off.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A flourish is a fancy curl in handwriting, or a showy movement or bit of music.↗ Example: The sunflowers flourished in the sunny corner.↗ · Ancient Egypt flourished along the Nile.↗ · She has flourished at her new school.↗ · The magician bowed with a flourish.↗ · He signed his name with a flourish.↗ · The knight flourished his sword.↗ · Small shops flourish when people buy locally.↗ · Ya-hip! ya-hip!'↗ And he flourished his broom in triumph."↗ · Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maids.↗ (Prophets ZEC.9.17, JPS 1917)↗ · I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.↗ (Writings DAN.4.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.↗ (Writings PSA.92.13, JPS 1917)↗

flow — Everyday, meaning 1: Of a liquid, gas or electricity: to move along smoothly and steadily in one direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of people, traffic or ideas: to move or come continuously: «The traffic flowed smoothly».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Of hair or clothes: to hang down loosely.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A noun: a steady movement of something: the flow of a river, a flow of air.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Of speech or writing: to sound smooth and natural.↗ Example: Rivers flow into the sea.↗ · Water flows downhill.↗ · Liquids can flow, but solids keep their shape.↗ · Electricity flows through the wires when the circuit is complete.↗ · Don't swim in fast-flowing water.↗ · Blood flows around your body.↗ · Her long hair flowed down her back.↗ · Make a flow chart to show the steps.↗ · In and out of it flowed water like attar.↗ · And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out; (Torah LEV.22.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.↗ (Torah LEV.15.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And if the flow of seed go out from a man, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.↗ (Torah LEV.15.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'↗ (Writings LAM.3.54, JPS 1917)↗ · The increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.↗ (Writings JOB.20.28, JPS 1917)↗ · He sendeth forth His word, and melteth them; He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.↗ (Writings PSA.147.18, JPS 1917)↗

flower — Everyday, meaning 1: A flower is the coloured part of a plant that blooms, like a rose or a tulip.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A flower is a plant grown for its flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To flower is to make flowers: «The tree flowers in spring».↗ Example: She picked 24 flowers.↗ · She put the flowers in 4 vases equally.↗ · There are 7 roses and 5 tulips; how many flowers?↗ · Each bouquet has 6 flowers.↗ · Bees visit flowers to collect nectar.↗ · We planted flowers in the school garden.↗ · The cherry tree flowers in spring.↗ · Some wild flowers are poisonous, so don't eat them.↗ · Pictures and flowers were scattered about.↗ · And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.25.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof; (Torah EXO.37.20, JPS 1917)↗ · three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower.↗ (Torah EXO.37.19, JPS 1917)↗ · and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold; (Writings 2CH.4.21, JPS 1917)↗ · The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.'↗ (Prophets ISA.40.8, JPS 1917)↗ · He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.↗ (Writings JOB.14.2, JPS 1917)↗

flowerpot — Everyday, meaning 1: A flowerpot is a container, usually of clay or plastic, for growing a plant in, with a hole in the bottom for water to drain out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK TV) «Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men» were puppets in an old children's programme (a name).↗ Example: Plant three seeds in each flowerpot.↗ · The flowerpot has a hole so water can drain.↗ · We painted terracotta flowerpots for Mother's Day.↗ · The cat knocked the flowerpot off the windowsill.↗ · Put the flowerpots in a sunny place.↗ · For a fair test, use the same size flowerpot for every plant.↗

flowery — Everyday, meaning 1: Flowery means full of flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Flowery language uses many fancy words, like flowers in a garden.↗ Example: He lived in a beautiful palace in the midst of flowery gardens.↗ · She turned into a path which ran between two flowery hedges.↗

floweth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «floweth» means «flows», a form of «flow»: Of a liquid, gas or electricity: to move along smoothly and steadily in one direction.↗ Example: If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us — a land which floweth with milk and honey.↗ (Torah NUM.14.8, JPS 1917) · And they told him, and said: 'We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.↗ (Torah NUM.13.27, JPS 1917)

flowing — Everyday, meaning 1: Flowing means moving along smoothly, as water does in a river.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Flowing can describe hair, clothes or lines that are long, smooth and loose.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Flowing speech or writing goes on smoothly without stopping.↗ Example: The river is flowing towards the sea.↗ · Water keeps flowing down the hill.↗ · Flowing water in a flood can sweep a car away.↗ · Her long flowing hair blew in the wind.↗ · Electric current is flowing round the circuit.↗ · Honey is flowing slowly off the spoon.↗ · The princess wore a flowing gown.↗ · His writing was neat and flowing.↗ · Now in came the South Wind, with a turban and a flowing Bedouin cloak.↗ · And He hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.↗ (Torah DEU.26.9, JPS 1917)↗ · unto a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I consume thee in the way.'↗ (Torah EXO.33.3, JPS 1917)↗ · and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.↗ (Torah DEU.11.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.↗ (Writings PSA.74.15, JPS 1917)↗ · He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd.↗ (Writings JOB.20.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou art a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.↗ (Writings SNG.4.15, JPS 1917)↗