Definition of float

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Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

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Duckweed :: Duckweed (n.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat..
Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..
Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed..
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel..
Iceberg :: Iceberg (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean..
Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Physophorae :: Physophorae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx..
Canard :: Canard (n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
Water Dog :: Water dog () A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain..
Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
Ice :: Ice (n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4ยก C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats..
Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
Floated :: Floated (imp. & p. p.) of Floa.
Flotage :: Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Supernatural :: Supernatation (n.) The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.
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