float

float is a 5-letter English word with 36 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 36 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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.
2. intransitive verb. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
3. intransitive verb. The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
4. intransitive verb. The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
5. intransitive verb. Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
6. intransitive verb. A float board. See Float board (below).
7. intransitive verb. A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
8. intransitive verb. The act of flowing; flux; flow.
9. intransitive verb. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
10. intransitive verb. The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
11. intransitive verb. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
12. intransitive verb. A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
13. intransitive verb. A coal cart.
14. intransitive verb. The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
15. noun. To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
16. noun. 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.
17. transitive verb. 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.
18. transitive verb. To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
19. transitive verb. To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
20. transitive verb. 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.
21. noun. an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
22. noun. something that floats on the surface of water
23. noun. a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
24. noun. an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
25. noun. a drink with ice cream floating in it
26. noun. the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
27. noun. the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
28. verb. convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation

    "float data"

29. verb. allow (currencies) to fluctuate

    "The government floated the ruble for a few months"

30. verb. make the surface of level or smooth

    "float the plaster"

31. verb. put into the water

    "float a ship"

32. verb. move lightly, as if suspended

    "The dancer floated across the stage"

33. verb. set afloat

    "He floated the logs down the river"

    "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

34. verb. be in motion due to some air or water current

    "The leaves were blowing in the wind"

    "the boat drifted on the lake"

    Synonyms: blow, drift

35. verb. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

    Synonyms: swim

36. verb. circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with

    "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"

Synonyms

blow, drift, swim

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in float:

aloft, flota

Common word forms

floats, floated, floater, floating, floatable, floatless

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