floss

Definition of floss in English English dictionary: free/libre/open source software; To show off, especially by exhibiting one’s wealth or talent
It's impossible to floss wealth without attracting envy.; Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other
embroidery floss.; a thread, used to clean the area between the teeth; silk fibres; the fibres covering a corn cob; Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss"; To clean the area between the teeth using floss; {f} clean one's teeth with dental floss; Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male; a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery use dental floss to clean; "floss your teeth after every meal; a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth; A body feather of an ostrich; To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent; Floss the is six-ply cotton thread most often used for cross-stitch It can be separated into individual strands when needed, is generally sold in 8-yard skeins, is inexpensive, and is available in hundreds of colors There are also many specialty flosses such as blending filaments, metallic threads and ribbons; Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering; use dental floss to clean; "floss your teeth after every meal"; {i} fiber from the silk-cotton tree; silk thread; something which resembles silky threads; dental thread; The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk; Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present; A small stream of water; A thread/tape goes in between teeth for cleaning; You can use floss to refer to fine soft threads of some kind. Craft Resources also sells yarn and embroidery floss. see also candyfloss, dental floss; a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery; When you floss, you use a special kind of strong string to clean between your teeth and gums. Brush your teeth after each meal and floss daily She was flossing her teeth at the time. to clean between your teeth using floss; is a single untwisted silk thread, often used for ecclesiastic embroidery It is much used in India and China
floss silk: Raw silk, having the appearance of cotton wool, once used as dental floss
floss silk: {i} silk that has been twisted and is used in embroidery; dental floss
candy floss: Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick
dental floss: floss (used to clean the areas between the teeth)
fairy floss: Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick
flossing: The act of removing food and plaque from one's teeth using dental floss
fairy floss: Candyfloss, cotton floss: a mass of pink or white fluffy spun sugar wrapped round a stick
flossing: (deyim) Showing off; showing what you've got
Mill on the Floss: a novel by George Eliot about Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a miller, and her brother, Tom (1860)
candy floss: (British) cotton candy, fluffy candy made from sugar that is spun with hot air and usually wrapped around a paper cone or small wooden stick
dental floss: thread used to clean between the teeth
dental floss: A thin, nylon string, waxed or unwaxed, that is inserted between the teeth to remove food and plaque
dental floss: Dental floss is a type of thread that is used to clean the gaps between your teeth. see also floss. A waxed or unwaxed thread used to remove food particles and plaque from between the teeth and under the gums. thin strong string that you use for cleaning between your teeth
dental floss: a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
dental floss: A thin string that is inserted between the teeth to remove food and plaque See more about flossing, click here
flossed: past of floss
flosses: third-person singular of floss
flosses: plural of floss
flossing: The act of removing food and plaque from ones teeth using dental floss
flossing: present participle of floss

floss

Turkish pronunciation

fläs

Pronunciation

/ˈfläs/ /ˈflɑːs/

Etymology

[ 'fläs, 'flos ] (noun.) 1759. 1750, from French floche (“tuft of wool”), from floc, from Old French flosche (“down, velvet”), from Latin floccus (“piece of wool”), of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkōn-, *flukkan-, *fluksōn- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plAwək- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”), Dutch flos (17c., “plush”). Related to fleece.

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flosses, flossing, flossed

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