Definition of float

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of float is as below...

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

Lern More About Float

Flushing :: Flushing (n.) A surface formed of floating threads.
Float :: Float (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
Float :: Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Physograde :: Physograde (n.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Floatable :: Floatable (a.) That may be floated.
Jetson :: "Jetson (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy..
Vapor :: Vapor (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc..
Dahabeah :: Dahabeah (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails..
Bead Proof :: Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..
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..
Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) The float of a paddle wheel.
Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
Live :: Live (v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm..
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
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..
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..
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us