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The Meaning of float
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(v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
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(v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
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(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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(v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
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(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.
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(v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
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(v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
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(v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
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(v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
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(v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
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(v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
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(v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
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(v. i.) A coal cart.
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(v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
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(n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
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(n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
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(v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
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(v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
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(v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
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(v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
Synonyms
plasterer's float
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ice-cream soda
,
ice-cream float
,
air bladder
,
swim bladder
,
swash
,
rove
,
vagabond
,
botch
,
ramble
,
bungle
,
muck up
,
range
,
mishandle
,
bumble
,
botch up
,
brag
,
stray
,
blow
,
tout
,
burn out
,
screw up
,
suck
,
gasconade
,
roll
,
fumble
,
flub
,
fellate
,
cast
,
ball up
,
err
,
freewheel
,
bollocks
,
wander
,
shoot a line
,
mess up
,
shove off
,
waste
,
louse up
,
bollocks up
,
gas
,
bollix
,
bluster
,
vaunt
,
swan
,
muff
,
tramp
,
blow out
,
swim
,
foul up
,
boast
,
fluff
,
drift
,
bobble
,
go down on
,
be adrift
,
shove along
,
bollix up
,
fuck up
,
squander
,
spoil
,
roam
,
bodge
,
drown
Antonyms
go under
,
go down
,
sink
,
settle
Rhymes
afloat
,
anecdote
,
antidote
,
asymptote
,
bacote
,
banknote
,
banxquote
,
bloat
,
boat
,
capote
,
chipote
,
choat
,
choate
,
coat
,
connote
,
cote
,
creosote
,
cutthroat
,
demote
,
denote
,
devote
,
dote
,
ferryboat
,
flatboat
,
footnote
,
gloat
,
goat
,
groat
,
grote
,
gunboat
,
haute
,
hinote
,
houseboat
,
keynote
,
kote
,
lifeboat
,
misquote
,
moat
,
mote
,
motorboat
,
note
,
oat
,
outvote
,
overcoat
,
petticoat
,
pote
,
powerboat
,
promote
,
quote
,
raincoat
,
redcoat
,
remote
,
rewrote
,
roat
,
rote
,
rowboat
,
sailboat
,
scapegoat
,
shoat
,
shote
,
showboat
,
sloate
,
smote
,
speedboat
,
sproat
,
steamboat
,
stoat
,
terre-haute
,
throat
,
tote
,
towboat
,
tugboat
,
turncoat
,
uncoat
,
undercoat
,
underwrote
,
unquote
,
vogt
,
vote
,
wrote