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Definition of 'FLOSS'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) floss
the cottony fiber yielded by the silk-cotton tree.

2.  floss
short untwisted silk filaments, often used to make embroidery thread.

3.  floss
embroidery thread of silk or fine cotton.

4.  floss
any silky, filamentous matter, as the silk of corn.

5. (v.i.) floss
to use dental floss on the teeth.

6. (v.t.) floss
to clean (the teeth) with dental floss.

Etymology: (1750–60; prob. < F floche, as in soie floche floss silk)

Definition of 'FLOSS'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) floss
a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery

2. (verb) dental floss, floss
a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth

3. (verb) floss
use dental floss to clean
"floss your teeth after every meal"

Definition of 'FLOSS'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) FLOSS
the slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk

2. (noun) FLOSS
untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering

3. (noun) FLOSS
a small stream of water

4. (noun) FLOSS
fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present

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