"flotant" meaning in All languages combined

See flotant on Wiktionary

Verb [Catalan]

Head templates: {{head|ca|gerund}} flotant
  1. gerund of flotar Tags: form-of, gerund Form of: flotar
    Sense id: en-flotant-ca-verb-8RSp23V6 Categories (other): Catalan entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Adjective [English]

Etymology: Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|flotant}} Old French flotant, {{cog|fr|flottant}} French flottant Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} flotant (not comparable)
  1. (heraldry) Represented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Heraldry Categories (place): Wetlands Synonyms: floatant, flottant
    Sense id: en-flotant-en-adj-RhhECVDs Disambiguation of Wetlands: 70 20 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 11 20 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 59 18 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 62 15 10 14 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 72 11 7 10 0 Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics

Noun [English]

Forms: flotants [plural]
Etymology: Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|flotant}} Old French flotant, {{cog|fr|flottant}} French flottant Head templates: {{en-noun}} flotant (plural flotants)
  1. A mass of floating vegetation, especially on the waters of the Mississippi delta.
    Sense id: en-flotant-en-noun-oxa-2KbQ
  2. Alternative form of floatant Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: floatant
    Sense id: en-flotant-en-noun-9eSznR2R
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: floating island

Adjective [Old French]

Forms: flotant [feminine, nominative, oblique, singular], flotante [feminine, nominative, oblique, singular]
Head templates: {{head|fro|adjective|oblique and nominative feminine singular|flotant|or|flotante|||||g=m|head=}} flotant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular flotant or flotante), {{fro-adj|mf|f2=flotante}} flotant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular flotant or flotante)
  1. floating; that floats Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-flotant-fro-adj-YB3fuB5O Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old French entries with incorrect language header: 93 7

Verb [Old French]

Head templates: {{head|fro|present participle}} flotant
  1. present participle of floter Tags: form-of, participle, present Form of: floter
    Sense id: en-flotant-fro-verb-08Nb7FJB

Adjective [Romanian]

IPA: /floˈtant/
Etymology: Borrowed from French flottant. Etymology templates: {{bor+|ro|fr|flottant}} Borrowed from French flottant Head templates: {{ro-adj|4}} flotant m or n (feminine singular flotantă, masculine plural flotanți, feminine and neuter plural flotante) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-adj|flotant|flotantă|flotanți|flotante|flotantul|flotanta|flotanții|flotantele|flotantului|flotantei|flotanților|flotantilor}} Forms: flotantă [feminine, singular], flotanți [masculine, plural], flotante [feminine, neuter, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], flotant [accusative, indefinite, masculine, neuter, nominative, singular], flotantă [accusative, feminine, indefinite, nominative, singular], flotanți [accusative, indefinite, masculine, nominative, plural], flotante [accusative, feminine, indefinite, neuter, nominative, plural], flotantul [accusative, definite, masculine, neuter, nominative, singular], flotanta [accusative, definite, feminine, nominative, singular], flotanții [accusative, definite, masculine, nominative, plural], flotantele [accusative, definite, feminine, neuter, nominative, plural], flotant [dative, genitive, indefinite, masculine, neuter, singular], flotante [dative, feminine, genitive, indefinite, singular], flotanți [dative, genitive, indefinite, masculine, plural], flotante [dative, feminine, genitive, indefinite, neuter, plural], flotantului [dative, definite, genitive, masculine, neuter, singular], flotantei [dative, definite, feminine, genitive, singular], flotanților [dative, definite, genitive, masculine, plural], flotantilor [dative, definite, feminine, genitive, neuter, plural]
  1. floating Tags: masculine, neuter Synonyms: plutitor Related terms: flota, flotabil, flotabilitate, flotare, flotație, flotă, flotilă
    Sense id: en-flotant-ro-adj-81TgIpl2 Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Romanian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "... (flotants) occur in abandoned distributaries and throughout the upper Mississippi Delta Plain. Flotants can be found in 3 settings : 1) an active or \"live\" flotant of various ages. 2) a flotant that is being transgressed by marine[…]",
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          "ref": "2007, Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 2007-2012, Western Planning Area Sales 204, 207, 210, 215, and 218, Central Planning Area Sales 205, 206, 208, 213, 216, and 222: Environmental Impact Statement, page 14:",
          "text": "... flotants. Flotants generally occur in very low-energy environments. They are held together by surrounding shorelines and a weave of slowly deteriorating plant materials and living roots. Forested wetlands are not very common in[…]",
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          "ref": "2010, Quinta Scott, The Mississippi: A Visual Biography, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] flotants, covered 75 percent of the western Terrebonne marshes. By 1998 thick-mat maidencane flotants had converted to fragile thin-mat floating marshes, vegetated in spikerush with no evidence as to why. Louisianans had lumped flotants[…]",
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          "text": "... flotants, sinking solutions, absorbent granules for drying flies, line cleaners and leader straighteners. Flotants, which are considered the most important, come in several forms. Spray containers are easy to use but they waste a[…]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2004 12, Malcolm Greenhalgh, Malcolm Greenhalgh and Denys Ovenden, The Flyfisher's Handbook: The Natural Foods of Trout and Grayling and Their Artificial Imitations, COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS, →ISBN, page 263:",
          "text": "Flotants and Sinkants / When nymphing it is essential that the tip of the floating fly line floats, for this is a major indicator that a fish has taken the fly. Carry a small tub of grease (e.g. Mucelin) and if the tip of the fly[…]",
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          "ref": "2010 November 7, Tom Rosenbauer, The Orvis Encyclopedia of Fly Fishing: Your Ultimate A to Z Guide to Being a Better Angler, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 77:",
          "text": "... flotants were homemade concoctions of paraffin with lighter fluid or carbon tetrachloride to keep the wax in suspension. Most fly flotants today are made with silicone, and it can either be dissolved in a quick-drying solvent, in[…]",
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}

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