- floppy
- I. adjective (floppier; -est) Date: 1858 tending to flop; especially being both soft and flexible • floppily adverb • floppiness noun II. noun (plural floppies) Date: 1974 floppy disk
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Floppy — may refer to: * Floppy disk * Floppy; The Segraves Floppy * The Floppy Show * Mr. Floppy from the Sitcom Unhappily Ever After * Floppy (Dog) A character from The Magic Key … Wikipedia
Floppy — Cet article traite du bonbon Haribo, floppy signifie une disquette en anglais, voir Disquette Le Floppy est un bonbon de la marque Haribo. Des … Wikipédia en Français
floppy — flop‧py [ˈflɒpi ǁ ˈflɑːpi] noun floppies PLURALFORM [countable] COMPUTING another name for a floppy disk * * * floppy UK US /ˈflɒpi/ noun [C] (plural floppies) ► … Financial and business terms
floppy — (izg. flȍpi) prid. DEFINICIJA inform., ob. u: SINTAGMA floppy disk (izg. floppy dȉsk), v. disketa; floppy drive (izg. floppy drȃjv) računalni dio koji služi za čitanje i pisanje po disketama; disketna jedinica ETIMOLOGIJA engl.: savitljiv,… … Hrvatski jezični portal
floppy — 1858, from FLOP (Cf. flop) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Floppy disc attested from 1972 (short form floppy by 1974) … Etymology dictionary
Floppy — Flop py, n. Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Floppy — Disk; Diskette; Floppy Disc * * * Flọp|py 〈f. 10; kurz für〉 Floppydisk, Diskette … Universal-Lexikon
floppy — ► ADJECTIVE (floppier, floppiest) ▪ tending to flop; not firm or rigid. ► NOUN (pl. floppies) (also floppy disk) Computing ▪ a flexible removable magnetic disk used for storing data. DERIVATIVES flo … English terms dictionary
floppy — [fläp′ē] adj. floppier, floppiest Informal flopping or inclined to flop; soft and flexible n. short for FLOPPY DISK floppily adv. floppiness n … English World dictionary
floppy — *limp, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, sleazy Analogous words: *loose, relaxed, lax, slack Contrasted words: *firm, hard: *stiff, inflexible, rigid, tense, stark: taut, *tight, tense … New Dictionary of Synonyms
floppy — [adj] limp drooping, droopy, flabby, flaccid, loose, pendulous, relaxed, sagging, saggy, slack; concept 485 Ant. erect, stiff … New thesaurus
