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floppy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun floppy has 1 sense
- floppy(n = noun.artifact) diskette, floppy disk - a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price" is a part of computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
is a kind of disc, disk, magnetic disc, magnetic disk
Adjective floppy has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
floppy, n.
Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
floppy, adj. & n.
--adj. (floppier, floppiest) tending to flop; not firm or rigid.
--n. (pl. -ies) (in full floppy disk) Computing a flexible removable magnetic disc for the storage of data.
--adj. (floppier, floppiest) tending to flop; not firm or rigid.
--n. (pl. -ies) (in full floppy disk) Computing a flexible removable magnetic disc for the storage of data.
Derivative
floppily adv. floppiness n.
THESAURUS
floppy
anemic, asthenic, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, nodding, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rubbery, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, sapless, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft, spineless, strengthless, swag, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weakly
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