Definition of float

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Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler..

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Mist :: Mist (n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist..
Tide :: Tide (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
Float :: Float (v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft..
Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..
Three-coat :: Three-coat (a.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat..
Pack :: Pack (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits..
Flotage :: Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
Float :: Float (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
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..
Floating :: Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..
Levitate :: Levitate (v. t.) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table..
Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat..
Buoy :: Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Natatory :: Natatory (a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs..
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