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Used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
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floppy
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Word definitions for floppy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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" [syn: diskette , floppy disk ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, "inclined to flop" [OED], from flop + -y (2). Floppy disc attested from 1972 (short form floppy by 1974).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible. n. (context computing English) A floppy disk
Usage examples of floppy.
So after saving the file he re-saved it on a floppy disc to take to his superior, Major Bayon Karim Kitan, who would in turn, take it to his boss, OIS Director Abahar Kharrazi.
Major Dougherty, Eben saw a number of white men dressed in the inevitable homespun trousers, shirts, waistcoats, and wide-brimmed floppy hats.
Muttie walking that floppy hound called Hooves round for the rest of his life?
A gray-haired lady in a housedress and floppy sweater stood on the porch of her home as Judd raced by.
She came out a side exit wrapped in plastic rainwear including a hat and floppy booties, and seemed ready for some hard-earned relaxation.
Viking outfit drank beer with a saturnine, well-used wayfarer in floppy seaboots and a ruffled black shirt.
Forte, himself an old shellback, was rigged out as a seventeenth-century pirate, in floppy boots, ragged pants, black handlebar mustaches, a cutlass and brace of wheellock pistols tucked in a broad red sash, rakish black hat with a peacock feather and the brim turned up, and black eye patch.
She shakes her head crossly, like a dog with a scrap, and the dress comes free, skims off her arms into his hands floppy and faintly warm.
Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time.
All you have to do is insert a floppy and off it goes, rooting into passwords, infiltrating programs.
On either side of the far door grey circuitry simmered, key banks and function consoles, a jukeboxful of floppy disks, the many screens showing printouts and readings in squat robot type.
At last he reached up and rearranged the floppy hat, straightening the long peacock feather.
He glanced over at Lady Emma with her butterscotch curls, baby-doll cheeks, floppy pink roses, and bouncing cherries.
Brill said stiffly in the entry hall, his eyes taking in Annas dusty clothes and floppy hat.
A large tawny dog with floppy ears came up to my hand and I backed away.