Definition of float

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Float (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

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Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..
Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.
Vapor :: Vapor (n.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate..
Draught :: Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught..
Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..
Float :: Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n..
Flete :: Flete (v. i.) To float; to swim.
Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
Floater :: Floater (n.) One who floats or swims.
Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..
Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..
Levity :: Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A coal cart.
Navigerous :: Navigerous (a.) Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels.
Fleet :: Fleet (n. & a.) To sail; to float.
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