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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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..
Podoscaph :: Podoscaph (n.) A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water..
Balsa :: Balsa (n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America..
Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.
Frontiersmen :: Frontiersmen (pl. ) of Floatiersma.
Dahabeah :: Dahabeah (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails..
Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..
Fluctuant :: Fluctuant (a.) Floating on the waves.
Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate..
Darby :: Darby (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc..
Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Gossamer :: Gossamer (n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders..
Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..
Neaped :: Neaped (a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped..
Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..
Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..
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