Definition of float

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Float (v. t.) 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..

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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.
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something..
Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water..
Lepas :: Lepas (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle..
Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..
Water Dog :: Water dog () A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..
Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
Whirlpool :: Whirlpool (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like..
Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..
Floss :: Floss (n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present..
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..
Flushing :: Flushing (n.) A surface formed of floating threads.
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..
Dobber :: Dobber (n.) A float to a fishing line.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like..
Floatage :: Floatage (n.) Same as Flotage.
Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) The float of a paddle wheel.
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