Definition of float

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Float (v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft..

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Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.
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..
Seine :: Seine (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish..
Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..
Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..
Drive :: Drive (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Floatingly :: Floatingly (adv.) In a floating manner.
Flete :: Flete (v. i.) To float; to swim.
Pack :: Pack (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
Stream :: Stream (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
Floater :: Floater (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..
Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..
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..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..
Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..
Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.
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..
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