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Definition of floss in English: flossnoun flɒs mass noun1The rough silk enveloping a silkworm's cocoon. Example sentencesExamples - At the beginning, the silkworm spins the outer covering, the floss of the cocoon.
- Since mankind discovered the wonder of the silkworm's floss, it has been used for the costliest of garments.
- Our silk quilt is made of pure silk floss.
- 1.1 Untwisted silk fibres used in embroidery.
Example sentencesExamples - Hand-stitch the leaf to a blue square using embroidery floss.
- Use felt scraps, embroidery floss, beads and other scrap materials to finish the finger puppets.
- The embroidery floss of my cross-stitched past now makes its home among my bookbinding materials.
- Unloop the button and use matching floss or thread to wrap around the braid at the mark.
- Lovingly stitched from black embroidery floss onto large squares of black cotton, the figures are represented as vaguely discernible silhouettes that emphasize simple lines and bold shapes.
- If you have trouble finding cording in the correct color, consider making your own from embroidery floss or perle cotton, which is readily available in a wide color range.
- I'll be blending three colors of floss in each knot to match the blocks.
- The birds are worked in floss silk using a variety of flat stitches.
- You have a hoop, needle, iron-on transfers and skeins of embroidery floss.
- Made with floss silk on khadi, phulkari is practiced by very few in the State today.
- No creepy crawlies, just silks, furs, flosses, feathers, wood, metal and plastic on a hook.
- This is a fluorescent floss silk and certainly stands out in coloured water.
- This wasn't so bad… at least the carpet wasn't pink, she thought as she showed the girls how to braid the colorful floss.
- Details are embroidered using various colours of embroidery floss.
- If you are handy with a needle and embroidery floss, do the same thing using your needlework skills.
- If you are handy with a needle and embroidery floss, create a cross-stitch sampler featuring those words.
- Spun silk floss is used for the filling and the cover is pure Habotai silk.
- Transmitters were attached in 2001 using a figure-eight loop harness made of lightweight cotton embroidery floss.
- ‘You only need a piece of evenweave fabric, some embroidery floss and a pair of scissors to start,’ Huang said.
- The dress itself was a beautiful creation, black and pink, latest fashion, covered in embroidery floss, beads and other items that came straight out of a friendship bracelet kit at the mannequin's feet.
- 1.2 The silky down in maize and other plants.
Example sentencesExamples - I saw a child who was albino, the hair like floss, the eyes with points of pink in them that reached up and grabbed my soul.
Synonyms soft feathers, fluff, fuzz, lint, bloom, fine hair, nap, pile
2 short for dental floss Example sentencesExamples - Wrap about 18 inches of floss around the middle fingers of both hands.
- Try a flossing ribbon or tape coated with natural waxes like jojoba, beeswax or carnuba to help floss glide between teeth without harming gums.
- I kept a spool of floss next to the keyboard at all times.
- Your dentist will demonstrate how to use floss under your bridge.
- I don't wash my hands eighty-three times a day, brush my teeth for thirty-two minutes or floss with old fishingline if no string is available.
- There were patches of band logos and patterned fabrics sewn on with varying colors of thread and tooth floss.
- Jim turned on the tap and leaned forward, wrapping floss around two fingers while Simon washed his hands in the sink beside him.
- There are some fancy new flosses, like Glide or Colgate's Precision.
- But don't worry, there is more than just floss in this dentist's surgery.
- A flosette is a plastic handle that holds a length of floss.
- Something else clattered to the floor along with his floss, and Alice drew back into the room just in time to see Gary hastily tuck it back into his bag.
- They turned out to be perfect for small, hard-to-store items, like floss, sunscreen, and the scads of miniature soaps and shampoos I like to pilfer from motels.
- So now I'm going to have to buy some floss at Icelandic prices!
- If you lack good finger dexterity, you may find it helpful to use one of the new flosses, such as Glide, or a commercial floss holder.
- This disturbed me a little and not because I know that my own flossing can be a tad sporadic as times depending on whether I have remembered to buy floss.
- She was putting the kids to bed and I was in the bathroom looking for some floss.
- It was a simple test, pitting Gore's PTFE floss against standard nylon floss and asking consumers which they preferred.
- So the benefits are, one, time saved from not having to floss, and the money saved from not having to buy so much floss.
verb flɒs 1with object Clean between (one's teeth) with dental floss. Example sentencesExamples - For the first time in my life, I feel like if anyone so much as breathes in the wrong direction toward me, I'm going to slice them to ribbons and floss with their intestines.
- Talk to your child's dentist for advice on flossing those tiny teeth.
- Clean and floss your teeth at least twice a day: keep them sparkling, so you'll want to smile at the whole world.
- Try placing a note in a strategic location to remind yourself to check your feet or to floss your teeth.
- Your dentist can also advise you on how to floss your teeth properly.
- If we as fitness professionals could just convince Americans to watch their diet, exercise regularly and floss, we'd really be getting somewhere.
- My dentist likes to say that you don't have to floss all of your teeth, just the ones you want to keep.
- Even choosing something as mundane as flossing your teeth four times per week can be a real chore if you hate to floss.
- In addition, brush and floss your teeth at least twice a day, and see your dentist if your gums bleed or look red or swollen.
- The tip suggests that urging your patients to brush and floss their teeth after dinner may help them fend off evening snacking.
- I'm hanging beneath the boat doing a safety stop, eyes fixed on my dive computer, oblivious to the fact that, behind me, a huge albino sperm whale is flossing its teeth on the anchor line.
- Most pregnant women have some bleeding of their gums, especially while brushing or flossing their teeth.
- When I brush vigorously or floss, my gums bleed.
- Seriously, paying closer attention to policy is a little like flossing your teeth.
- While brushing and flossing your pets' teeth is the obvious answer, there are other less digit-threatening ways to go about it.
- This may cause minor bleeding when you brush or floss your teeth.
- If you floss your teeth, you may continue to do so.
- Make sure you brush your teeth properly for at least two minutes and floss.
- She was in the bathroom flossing her teeth when she heard her phone ring.
- Parents will need to floss young children's teeth.
Synonyms wash, cleanse, wipe, sponge, scrub, mop, rinse, scour, swab, hose down, sluice, sluice down, flush, polish, disinfect 2US informal no object Behave in a flamboyant manner; show off. Example sentencesExamples - Safire advises, ‘an obnoxious male showoff seeking to attract females is derided as a floss or as engaged in flossing.’
- If you haven't already seen the guy flossing up and down the Main, or posting hard on any given corner of Ste-Catherine, you will soon.
- I accept these conventions, then, because I have no great desire to see the Mitchell brothers flossing or farting, and I'm happy that the scriptwriters should indulge this prejudice.
Origin Mid 18th century: from French (soie) floche 'floss (silk)', from Old French flosche 'down, nap of velvet', of unknown origin. Rhymes across, boss, Bros, cos, cross, crosse, doss, dross, emboss, en brosse, fosse, gloss, Goss, joss, Kos, lacrosse, loss, moss, MS-DOS, Ross Definition of floss in US English: flossnoun 1The rough silk enveloping a silkworm's cocoon. Example sentencesExamples - Since mankind discovered the wonder of the silkworm's floss, it has been used for the costliest of garments.
- At the beginning, the silkworm spins the outer covering, the floss of the cocoon.
- Our silk quilt is made of pure silk floss.
- 1.1 Untwisted silk fibers used in embroidery.
Example sentencesExamples - The embroidery floss of my cross-stitched past now makes its home among my bookbinding materials.
- Spun silk floss is used for the filling and the cover is pure Habotai silk.
- No creepy crawlies, just silks, furs, flosses, feathers, wood, metal and plastic on a hook.
- The birds are worked in floss silk using a variety of flat stitches.
- Use felt scraps, embroidery floss, beads and other scrap materials to finish the finger puppets.
- Unloop the button and use matching floss or thread to wrap around the braid at the mark.
- The dress itself was a beautiful creation, black and pink, latest fashion, covered in embroidery floss, beads and other items that came straight out of a friendship bracelet kit at the mannequin's feet.
- I'll be blending three colors of floss in each knot to match the blocks.
- If you are handy with a needle and embroidery floss, create a cross-stitch sampler featuring those words.
- This is a fluorescent floss silk and certainly stands out in coloured water.
- Details are embroidered using various colours of embroidery floss.
- ‘You only need a piece of evenweave fabric, some embroidery floss and a pair of scissors to start,’ Huang said.
- If you have trouble finding cording in the correct color, consider making your own from embroidery floss or perle cotton, which is readily available in a wide color range.
- Transmitters were attached in 2001 using a figure-eight loop harness made of lightweight cotton embroidery floss.
- Made with floss silk on khadi, phulkari is practiced by very few in the State today.
- If you are handy with a needle and embroidery floss, do the same thing using your needlework skills.
- This wasn't so bad… at least the carpet wasn't pink, she thought as she showed the girls how to braid the colorful floss.
- Lovingly stitched from black embroidery floss onto large squares of black cotton, the figures are represented as vaguely discernible silhouettes that emphasize simple lines and bold shapes.
- You have a hoop, needle, iron-on transfers and skeins of embroidery floss.
- Hand-stitch the leaf to a blue square using embroidery floss.
- 1.2 The silky down in corn and other plants.
Example sentencesExamples - I saw a child who was albino, the hair like floss, the eyes with points of pink in them that reached up and grabbed my soul.
Synonyms soft feathers, fluff, fuzz, lint, bloom, fine hair, nap, pile - 1.3
short for dental floss Example sentencesExamples - So the benefits are, one, time saved from not having to floss, and the money saved from not having to buy so much floss.
- But don't worry, there is more than just floss in this dentist's surgery.
- There are some fancy new flosses, like Glide or Colgate's Precision.
- If you lack good finger dexterity, you may find it helpful to use one of the new flosses, such as Glide, or a commercial floss holder.
- I don't wash my hands eighty-three times a day, brush my teeth for thirty-two minutes or floss with old fishingline if no string is available.
- So now I'm going to have to buy some floss at Icelandic prices!
- There were patches of band logos and patterned fabrics sewn on with varying colors of thread and tooth floss.
- Wrap about 18 inches of floss around the middle fingers of both hands.
- Jim turned on the tap and leaned forward, wrapping floss around two fingers while Simon washed his hands in the sink beside him.
- Something else clattered to the floor along with his floss, and Alice drew back into the room just in time to see Gary hastily tuck it back into his bag.
- Try a flossing ribbon or tape coated with natural waxes like jojoba, beeswax or carnuba to help floss glide between teeth without harming gums.
- I kept a spool of floss next to the keyboard at all times.
- They turned out to be perfect for small, hard-to-store items, like floss, sunscreen, and the scads of miniature soaps and shampoos I like to pilfer from motels.
- She was putting the kids to bed and I was in the bathroom looking for some floss.
- This disturbed me a little and not because I know that my own flossing can be a tad sporadic as times depending on whether I have remembered to buy floss.
- Your dentist will demonstrate how to use floss under your bridge.
- It was a simple test, pitting Gore's PTFE floss against standard nylon floss and asking consumers which they preferred.
- A flosette is a plastic handle that holds a length of floss.
verb [with object]Clean between (one's teeth) with dental floss. no object you must floss well Example sentencesExamples - While brushing and flossing your pets' teeth is the obvious answer, there are other less digit-threatening ways to go about it.
- She was in the bathroom flossing her teeth when she heard her phone ring.
- In addition, brush and floss your teeth at least twice a day, and see your dentist if your gums bleed or look red or swollen.
- Seriously, paying closer attention to policy is a little like flossing your teeth.
- Your dentist can also advise you on how to floss your teeth properly.
- The tip suggests that urging your patients to brush and floss their teeth after dinner may help them fend off evening snacking.
- Try placing a note in a strategic location to remind yourself to check your feet or to floss your teeth.
- Even choosing something as mundane as flossing your teeth four times per week can be a real chore if you hate to floss.
- This may cause minor bleeding when you brush or floss your teeth.
- Most pregnant women have some bleeding of their gums, especially while brushing or flossing their teeth.
- If we as fitness professionals could just convince Americans to watch their diet, exercise regularly and floss, we'd really be getting somewhere.
- My dentist likes to say that you don't have to floss all of your teeth, just the ones you want to keep.
- Talk to your child's dentist for advice on flossing those tiny teeth.
- If you floss your teeth, you may continue to do so.
- Parents will need to floss young children's teeth.
- Clean and floss your teeth at least twice a day: keep them sparkling, so you'll want to smile at the whole world.
- I'm hanging beneath the boat doing a safety stop, eyes fixed on my dive computer, oblivious to the fact that, behind me, a huge albino sperm whale is flossing its teeth on the anchor line.
- Make sure you brush your teeth properly for at least two minutes and floss.
- For the first time in my life, I feel like if anyone so much as breathes in the wrong direction toward me, I'm going to slice them to ribbons and floss with their intestines.
- When I brush vigorously or floss, my gums bleed.
Synonyms wash, cleanse, wipe, sponge, scrub, mop, rinse, scour, swab, hose down, sluice, sluice down, flush, polish, disinfect
Origin Mid 18th century: from French (soie) floche ‘floss (silk)’, from Old French flosche ‘down, nap of velvet’, of unknown origin. |