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Flits
- noun - a secret move (to avoid paying debts); "they did a moonlight flit"
- a sudden quick movement
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"
Float
- noun - a drink with ice cream floating in it
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
- Float glas
Flock
- noun - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
- a church congregation guided by a pastor
- a group of birds
- a group of sheep or goats
- an orderly crowd; "a troop of children"
- come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
- move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
- Soft material for stuffing mattresses, cushions etc.
Flocs
- noun - a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid
Floes
- noun - a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea
Flogs
- verb - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- beat with a cane
- Sell (slang)
- Whipped
Flong
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- Paper mache mould used in printing.
Flood
- noun - a large flow
- an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
- become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
- cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry l