Definition of float

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Float (v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep..

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Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.
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..
Water Dog :: Water dog () A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..
Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..
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..
Fleet :: Fleet (n. & a.) To sail; to float.
Catamaran :: Catamaran (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like..
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..
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.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate..
Float :: Float (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
Pad :: Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..
Careen :: Careen (v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel..
Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel..
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..
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..
Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
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