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An iceberg is a large mass of freshwater ice that has broken off of a glacier or an ice shelf. An ice floe is a large, flat pack of floating ice. The difference between the two is that most of the ice floe’s mass is above the water’s surface, while about 90% of an iceberg’s mass is underwater.
1 Size: Iceberg is much larger than a floe. 2 Formation: Iceberg is formed by breaking off from a glacier or ice shelf, while floe is formed by breaking up of sea ice. 3 Visibility: Iceberg is mostly hidden beneath the surface, while floe is visible above the water.
Iceberg is more commonly used than floe in everyday language, as it is a more versatile word that can be used in various contexts. Floe is less common and more specific to Arctic or Antarctic regions.
Glaciers confined within a path that directs their movements are mountain glaciers, those that spread on level ground at the foot of a glaciated region are piedmont glaciers, and those that spread from a glaciated region onto the ocean are ice shelves. Ice floes, on the other hand, are made of frozen seawater.
snowdrift. snowfall. snowflake generation. See more results » (Definition of ice floe from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ice floe. ice floe. Petrell had hit an ice floe during a westerly storm and had sunk while the men were away hunting reindeer. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
Definition of ice floe noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Examples of ice floe. A polar bear stands on a melting ice floe on a summer evening. In another, the penguin's head is seen in the foreground as it bobs at the surface, a gleaming ice floe looming up ahead. He moved on to the great ice floe in the sky in 2011.
