different between floc vs filament

English

Alternative forms

• flocc

Etymology

From Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), or from French floc (“floc”), from the same Latin source.

Noun

floc (countable and uncountable, plural flocs)

1. A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.

Anagrams

• FCOL, OFLC

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin floccus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fl?k/

Noun

floc m (plural flocs)

1. tuft, lock (a bunch of feathers, hair, or grass held together at the base)
2. flake of snow

Derived terms

• flocadura

Further reading

• “floc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “floc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “floc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “floc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• flok

Etymology

From Latin floccus.

Noun

floc m

1. flock, tuft
2. flake

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin floccus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

floc m (plural floci)floc n (plural floace)

1. floc, floccule
2. tuft (of hair)
3. flock (of wool)
4. (slang) pubic hair

Declension

Masculine:

Neuter:

Related terms

• flocos

See also

• mi??
• smoc
• ?uvi??
• fulg

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin f?l?mentum, from Late Latin f?l? (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin f?lum (“thread”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?m?nt/

Noun

filament (plural filaments)

1. A fine thread or wire.
2. Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
3. (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.

   solar filament

   galaxy filament

   the Ursa Major Filament

4. (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
5. (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

Translations

Anagrams

• left main

Danish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)

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Declension

References

• “filament” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament or filamenter, definite plural filamenta or filamentene)

1. a filament

References

• “filament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.

Noun

filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament, definite plural filamenta)

1. a filament

Romanian

Etymology

From French filament, from Latin filamentum.

Noun

filament n (plural filamente)

1. filament

Declension