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- English Word Float Definition The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
- English Word Float Definition To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
- English Word Float Definition To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
- English Word Float Definition To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
- English Word Float Definition To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
- English Word Float Definition To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
- English Word Float Definition To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
- English Word Floatable Definition That may be floated.
- English Word Floatage Definition Same as Flotage.
- English Word Floatation Definition See Flotation.
- English Word Floated Definition of Float
- English Word Floater Definition One who floats or swims.
- English Word Floater Definition A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
- English Word Floatiersman Definition A man living on the frontier.
- English Word Floating Definition of Float
- English Word Floating Definition Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
- English Word Floating Definition Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
- English Word Floating Definition Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
- English Word Floating Definition Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
- English Word Floating Definition The second coat of three-coat plastering.