Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of float is as below...

Iceberg :: Iceberg (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean..

Ice :: Ice (n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats..

Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..

Boom :: Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away..

Water Line :: Water line () Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded..

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

Fluctuant :: Fluctuant (a.) Floating on the waves.

Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Pus :: Pus (a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

Physograde :: Physograde (n.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia..

Fly :: Fly (v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc..

Draff :: Draff (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

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..

Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..

Flushing :: Flushing (n.) A surface formed of floating threads.

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.

Stanch :: Stanch (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release..

Random Fonts

Most Popular