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Flotsam The people we represent are always at the mercy of accidental happenings; they are the flotsam and jetsam of life. Flotsam is the floating wreckage of a ship. You'll often hear it used with the word jetsam, which refers to floating objects that have been thrown from a ship, usually to lighten it before it sinks. Jetsam definition is - the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore.
Flotsam is a survival town-builder set in a flooded world. In it, the player manages a floating village community as it moves around the ocean. The player recycles garbage and scrap to construct buildings and collect fish and drinkable water to keep the village alive. The player encounters dangerous sea animals, visitors, and ruins.
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flot·sam
(flŏt′səm)n.1. Goods floating on the surface of a body of water after a shipwreck or after being cast overboard to lighten the ship.
2. Discarded or unimportant things: 'Keyrings, bookmarks ... gum, scissors, paper clips ... pencils and pads stolen from various hotels: all this detritus, this flotsam of a life being lived at full throttle'(David Leavitt).
3. People who are considered to be worthless or to have been rejected by society.
[Anglo-Norman floteson, from Old French floter, to float, of Germanic origin; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
flotsam
(ˈflɒtsəm) n1. (Nautical Terms) wreckage from a ship found floating. Compare jetsam1, lagan
2. useless or discarded objects; odds and ends (esp in the phrase flotsam and jetsam)
[C16: from Anglo-French floteson, from floter to float]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
flot•sam
(ˈflɒt səm)n.
1. the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
3. useless or unimportant items; odds and ends.
Also called flot′sam and jet′sam (for defs. 3, 4).[1600–10; < Anglo-French floteson, derivative of floter to float < Germanic; see float]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
flotsam
material floating on the sea, especially debris or goods from ship-wrecks. Cf. jetsam.
See also: Ships-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Flotsam
parts of wreckage of a ship or cargo found floating on the sea, 1607; of odds and ends, 1861. See also jetsam.Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
| Noun | 1. | flotsam - the floating wreckage of a ship wreckage - the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked; 'they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors' |
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
flotsam
noundebris, sweepings, rubbish, junk, wreckage, detritus, odds and ends, jetsamThe water was full of flotsam and refuse.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Jetsam And Flotsam Definition
flotsam
[ˈflɒtsəm]Nflotsam and jetsam → restosmpl (de naufragio) (Tech) (frm) → peciosmplCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
flotsam
[ˈflɒtsəm]n
(= floating rubbish) → déchetsmplflottants, déchetsmplà la dérive
flotsam and jetsam (= floating rubbish) → déchetsmplflottants (= odds and ends) → objetsmplhétéroclites, déchetsmpl
flotsam and jetsam (= floating rubbish) → déchetsmplflottants (= odds and ends) → objetsmplhétéroclites, déchetsmpl
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
flotsam
Flotsam Definition
n → Treibgutnt; he was another of the city’s flotsam → er gehörte auch zu den Gestrandeten der Stadt; flotsam and jetsam (floating) → Treibgutnt; (washed ashore) → Strandgutnt; the flotsam and jetsam of our society → die Gestrandetenpl → or das Strandgut unserer Gesellschaft
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
flotsam
Flotsam Definition In Reading
[ˈflɒtsəm]nflotsam and jetsam → rifiutimplportati dal mare (people) →Flotsam And Jetsam Band
relittimplCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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