float
float has 36 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.
Definitions
- 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.
- v. i.. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- v. i.. The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
- v. i.. The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
- 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.
- v. i.. A float board. See Float board (below).
- 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.
- v. i.. The act of flowing; flux; flow.
- v. i.. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
- v. i.. The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
- v. i.. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- v. i.. A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.