WORD FOR THE DAY(5/14/18)flocculate

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WORD FOR THE DAY(5/14/18)flocculate



Word of the Day : May 7th, 2018

flocculate

verb FLAH-kyuh-layt

Definition

: to aggregate or coalesce into small lumps or loose clusters

Did You Know?

In the late 16th century, scientists noticed that the loose masses separated from a solution or suspension through precipitation often resembled tufts of wool, and they began to refer to them as flocks, using a word for "tufts" that comes ultimately from the synonymous Latin word floccus. (This flock is not related to the flock that refers to a group of animals, which comes from Old English flocc, meaning "crowd" or "band.") About two centuries later, the Late Latin term flocculus found its way into English and was also used with the meaning "a small loosely aggregated mass." By the end of the 19th century, a whole word family had been formed, including the adjective flocculent, the noun floccule, and the verb flocculate.

Examples

During fermentation, yeast cells flocculate and either rise to the top or sink to the bottom of the vat.

"The polymer causes organics and dirt in the water to flocculate or collect together out of suspension." — Jill Pickett, The News-Enterprise (Elizabethtown, Kentucky), 2 May 2013

[NeoCaveman]

ISIS has been flocculated.

[Louis Foxwell]

Bubble, bubble....

[Red Badger]

Flocculate better than never..................

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That’s a good one! I am reminded of a cat on a hot tin roof when i hear that word. LOL!

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YEAH!

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Toil and Trouble!

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Better than floccuearly?

[DannyTN]

51 were completely de-flocculated and 1200 were partially de-flocculated. The idea that they just need to leave Israel alone just will not flocculate in their head.

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I love a Nation that protects its borders.

[mikrofon]

So during the winter migration, these geese agreed to get back together in some spot down south… Eventually, most of them reached the desired location, but one group was slow in getting there, prompting the lead goose to ask his lieutenant where his crew was.

Finally, the remainder came in dribs and drabs, whereupon the embarrassed junior fowl exclaimed- “Flocculate!”

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As a 16 year resident of Florida, I used to observe that migratory birds from the Northeast used to flocculate on our trees and electrical wires, resembling a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”.

All except the Snowbirds. They flocculated on the beaches.