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# floe

«floe» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large flat sheet of floating ice on the sea** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a floe, floes; also ice floe)

### meaning for a pupil

A large flat sheet of floating ice on the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science about polar regions, floes break off the sea ice; polar bears hunt seals from them, and seals rest on them. As the climate warms, there is less sea ice and fewer floes in summer. In stories, explorers drift on floes. Phrases: «ice floe», «drifting floes».

### examples

- A polar bear stood on the ice floe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/#x1)
- Seals rested on the floating floe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/#x2)
- The ship pushed slowly between the floes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/#x3)
- The explorers drifted for months on an ice floe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/#x4)
- Warmer seas mean fewer ice floes in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/#x5)
- The floe cracked and split in two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/#x6)

### note

Countable. Homophone trap: «floe» (ice) sounds like «flow» (to move like a liquid). Pronounced «flo». An iceberg is different: it comes from a glacier and sits deep in the water; a floe is flatter sea ice.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «floe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.