Definition of float

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

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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..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Floating :: Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floa.
Sea Apple :: Sea apple () The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea..
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.
Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..
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..
Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like..
Floating :: Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.
Flotage :: Flotage (n.) The state of floating.
Float :: Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
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