| 单词 | floss |
| 释义 | floss (once / 3185 pages) 1nv 2n Floss is what you use to clean between your teeth. Dental floss is a strong, thick thread that can reach small pieces of food in tight spaces. Your dentist will be happy with you if you really do use floss every day — and to do this is to floss. Other types of floss are soft threads with different uses: some floss is made for stitching or embroidering designs on fabric, and the strands of silk spun by a silkworm are also floss. The origin of this word is uncertain, but one guess connects it to floche, "tuft of wool" in French. WORD FAMILYfloss: flossed, flosses, flossing, flossy+/flossy: flossier, flossiest, flossily USAGE EXAMPLESFor many of the patients we treat, daily life is such a struggle that brushing and flossing are a low priority. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Flossing does help get rid of those harmful bugs. Time(Dec 06, 2016) Bandages, safety pins, floss and eye drops, as well as individually packaged aspirin, Tums and breath mints. Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1 1n a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth Syn|Hyper dental floss thread, yarn a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving 2v use dental floss to clean 2floss your teeth after every meal Hyper clean, cleanse clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing n a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery Hyper thread, yarn a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving |
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