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Displacement :: Displacement (n.) The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body..

Live :: Live (v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm..

Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..

Flotage :: Flotage (n.) The state of floating.

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed..

Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A coal cart.

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it..

Floatage :: Floatage (n.) Same as Flotage.

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).

Supernatant :: Supernatant (a.) Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water..

#NAME? :: -tre (n.) The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium..

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.

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water..

Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..

Natant :: Natant (a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants..

Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

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