Word Meaning

Meaning of float

- 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.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
- The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
- Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
- A float board. See Float board (below).
- A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
- The act of flowing; flux; flow.
- A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
- The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
- A coal cart.
- The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
- To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
- 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.
- 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.
- To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
- To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
- 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.

Crossword clue for float

- Base amount to commence a shift's till drawer
- Be buoyant
- Drift on carnival truck
- Slip along
- Swim