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Definition: Float |
FloatNoun1. The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment. 2. The number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public. 3. A drink with ice cream floating in it. 4. Something that remains on the surface of a liquid. Verb1. Be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore". 2. Be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink. 3. Set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond". 4. Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform". 5. Move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage". 6. Put into the water; "float a ship". 7. Allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months". 8. Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "float" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Business | Somme remise chaque matin, au livreur, afin qu'il ait de la monnaie à remettre aux clients. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | Buoyant structure used in devices for controlling the level of a liquid. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | An element of document, normally a keep, that is to appear at some specified position relative to the type area on whatever page contains it(e. g. the middle of a column, the bottom of a page), whose precise position relative to the text cannot be determined until pagination is performed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The number of freely traded shares in the hands of the public. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The time that elapses between the day a check is written and issued and the day it is presented for payment to the financial institution on which it is drawn. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | A platform of heavy overlapping planks cleated together that is drawn over soil to compact and smooth its surface, to improve its condition, or to crush clods. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A buoyant unit used to give lift or to mark the position of a net, or both. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A measure of timber equal to 18 loads. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Logs fastened together to form a small raft, as in a storage pond. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | A length of yarn on the surface of a fabric between adjacent intersections. This will correspond to the number of threads over or under which the intersecting yarn passes in a woven structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A general term for loose fragments of ore or rock, esp. on a hillside below an outcropping ledge or vein. Syn:floater float ore. b. Fine gold that floats in panning and other operations and is lost c. A timber platform, faced with boiler iron on both sides, and provided with rings at the corners for lifting. It is used in shaft work to prevent the crushing of the bottom timbers by flying fragments of rock d. The tendency of the bit in a flat-angle borehole to follow an increasingly flat course as the depth of the borehole increases e. In mineral concentration, the response of a specific mineral to the flotation process f. The fine dust that does not settle out of the air current in the grinding mills but is filtered out by fine cloth bags. Also, the fine dust collecting on the roof and timbers in a mine. g. Metal particles so fine that they float on the surface of water in crushing or washing, as float gold. h. Various forms of ball-and-seat valves commonly inserted in casing and rod strings in such a manner as to keep drilling fluid out of the casing or rod string when lowered into a borehole. Also called float valve i. To lift a material by the buoyant action of a strong current or flow of a liquid medium; also, that material buoyant enough to float on the surface of a liquid medium j. The buoyant part of an apparatus for indicating the height of water ina steam boiler or of liquid in a tank. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Buoyancy is the ability to float. In physics, the word buoyancy also refers to the quantity of buoyant force, regardless of whether the object floats or not. If the buoyancy exceeds the weight, then the object floats; if the weight exceeds the buoyancy, it sinks. It was the ancient Greek Archimedes of Syracuse who first discovered the law of buoyancy, sometimes called Archimedes' principle:(Fluid means either a liquid, such as water or oil, or a gas, such as air.) If the weight of an object is less than that of the fluid that the object displaces when it is fully submerged, then it floats at such a level that the weight of the object is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. If the object's weight exceeds that of the displace fluid, then it sinks.
- The buoyancy is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.
An object of a material of higher density than the fluid, e.g. a metal object in water, can still float if it has a suitable shape that keeps air below the surface level of the fluid. In that case, for the average density mentioned above, the air is included also, which may reduce this density to less than that of the fluid.
This is the principle of vessels such as boats and ships, discovered by Archimedes.
Although Archimedes' principle gives the force on a buoyant object, it is generally not recognized that this does not determine the related acceleration of the object in the usual way over Newton's first law. This is because not only has the mass of the object to be accelerated but also the mass of the displaced fluid. One can compare the situation to a scale, where the weight on one side is given by the object, and the weight on the other side by the displaced fluid element. Depending on which of the two is heavier, one side of the scale will drop and the other rise, but since both sides are rigidly connected, both masses have to be accelerated together at the same rate (albeit in opposite directions).
It is obvious that without taking the displaced fluid element into account, energy would not be conserved during the buoyant motion of an object as it would gain both potential and kinetic energy when rising in the fluid.
See also Hull (ship), Flotation, Naval architecture.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Buoyancy."
Synonyms: FloatSynonyms: ice-cream float (n), ice-cream soda (n), be adrift (v), blow (v), drift (v), swim (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: slackest (public administration). |
| Antonym: sink (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ascent | Verb: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire. |
Go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap. | |
Idea | Verb: float in the mind, pass in the mind. |
Imagination | Float in the mind; suggest itself; (thought). |
Levity | Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air. |
Verb: be light. Adjective: float, rise, swim, be buoyed up. | |
Light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than air; rise like a balloon, float like a balloon. | |
Navigation | Swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive, wade. |
Physical Pleasure | Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips. |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
Stability | Settle, establish, stablish, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten; (join); set on its legs, float; perpetuate. |
Thought | Occur; present itself, suggest itself; come into one's head, get into one's head; strike one, flit across the view, come uppermost, run in one s head; enter the mind, pass in the mind, cross the mind, flash on the mind, flash across the mind, float in the mind, fasten itself on the mind, be uppermost in the mind, occupy the mind; have in one's mind. |
Uncertainty | Not know what to make of; (unintelligibility), not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt,hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains. |
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Screenplays | You know, while you were playing that just now, I had the craziest fantasy that I could rise up and float right down the end of this coronet, right through here, through these vales, right along this tube, and right up against your lips and give you a kiss (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Now, does wood float in water (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Float away, you fairy (So I Married An Axe Murder; writing credit: Robbie Fox, Neil Mullarkey, Mike Myers) What are you gonna do, float a pencil at them (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) He needs his brain or else he's just going to float around saying 'do what now.' (Aqua Teen Hunger Force; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis) | |
Lyrics | I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Boy You Know You Make Me Float (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) Then I'll float on down the river to a Cajun hideaway, hey hey. (Mountain Music; performing artist: ALABAMA; writing credit: Randy Owen) Now I'ma float on, roll me somethin' to smoke on (Count It Off; performing artist: Jade) Wish I could float away (Barenaked; performing artist: Jennifer Love Hewit) | |
Tongue Twisters | A fat-free fruit float. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cripple Creek Float (1898) Reality TV: Float or Fall? (2001) Dead Man's Float (1980) | |
Song Titles | FLOAT ON (performing artist: FLOATERS) | |
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 | Pictured are various children playing on a homemade raft and with a rubber innertube, used as a float. They are playing in a swimming pond, in a rural setting on a summer day. These children are members of a larger Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | This genus is characterized by the absence of a siphon, and the presence of palmate hairs. Palmate, or float hairs are present on at least some of the larva's abdominal segments. Credit: CDC. |
 | Palmate hairs, or float hairs are present on at least some of the larva's abdominal segments. Credit: CDC. |  | Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Tending tide gages by float plane. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The start of a mapping flight Cooperative use of a Navy Air Service float plane for photographic duty. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Float plane delivering parts for a heater. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Birch Island beach showing gradation of sediment from coarse pebbles to sand as one moves up from the shoreline. Seaweed is evident along "rack" line showing furthest extent of normal high tide. Wildflower seeds float in on algae and take root helping preserve sediment. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A float plane taxiing on a calm day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Increasing expanses of melted snow and ice during the spring melt Weasel checking sea ice landing strip at Oliktok Point - If weasel didn't break ice, ski planes could land. If weasels broke ice, they would float as they were amphibious. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Float Plane" by Paul C Commentary: "A rainy day in Valdez Alaska, waiting to fly over the glacier." | "Float 01" by Nicholas Sales Commentary: "Float." |
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John Locke | Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Things float in the air in fact |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The preacher let his arms and hands float on the surface |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth |
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Health | A person who produces methane will have stools that consistently float in water. (references) | |
Although rare, cysticerci may float in the eye and cause blurry or disturbed vision. (references) | ||
Business | Pakistan’s exchange rate policy had shifted from a managed float to a market based exchange rate system and the system of official exchange rate was abolished from May 19,1999. In recent years, the Government of Pakistan (GOP) has significantly liberalized foreign exchange controls. (references) | |
Economic History | Turkey | On February 22, 2001, the lira was allowed to float freely. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan was forced to float the Tenge in1999, which resulted in a substantial devaluation. (references) | |
Turkey | Forecasters expect the current account deficit to be 0.6 percent of GNP in 2001 after the free float. (references) | |
Political Economy | TURKEY | On that date, the Turkish authorities allowed the TL to float. (references) |
MALAYSIA | Nearly all float glass that moves in world trade is rectangular. (references) | |
PARAGUAY | The Central Bank practices a dirty float, with periodic interventions aimed at stabilizing the guarani. (references) | |
Trade | Kazakhstan | The National Bank of Kazakhstan allows the national currency, the tenge, to float. (references) |
Romania | Although this system has reduced float and payment clearance delays, inefficiencies remain. (references) | |
Guatemala | In early 1994, BANGUAT moved to a dirty float; BANGUAT still intervenes in the foreign exchange market to prevent sharp movements in the exchange rate. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Float" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 43.13% of the time. "Float" is used about 771 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 43.13% | 333 | 15,728 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 40.28% | 311 | 16,365 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.67% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.91% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 771 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "float": Carling float ♦ cockle(cast and float glass) ♦ Feathering float ♦ Federal Reserve Float ♦ flame float ♦ float a loan ♦ float about ♦ float adjustment ♦ float an idea ♦ float around ♦ float away ♦ float back ♦ Float board ♦ float bridge ♦ float carburetor ♦ Float case ♦ Float copper ♦ float down ♦ Float gold ♦ float in the mind ♦ float like a balloon ♦ float off ♦ float on ♦ Float ore ♦ float seaplane ♦ Float stone ♦ float timber ♦ float up ♦ Float valve ♦ float well ♦ float with the stream ♦ Ice float ♦ interfering float ♦ managed float ♦ milk float ♦ on the float ♦ pneumatic float ♦ retractable float ♦ root beer float ♦ smoke float ♦ To float with the stream. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "float": float-board, float-chamber, float-equipped, float-feed carburetor, float-fished, float-operated, float-plane, float-tackle. | |
Ending with "float": bent-wire-and-float, free-float, fun-float, kappa-float, milk-float, no-float, post-float, re-float, stick-float. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pool float | 525 | water float | 44 |
float | 351 | amphitheater float rite | 42 |
float tube | 337 | fishing float tube | 40 |
parade float | 242 | float illinois river trip | 34 |
hope float | 200 | boat float | 34 |
missouri float trip | 157 | parade float supply | 34 |
float valve | 150 | swim float | 33 |
float glass | 133 | 4th float july | 31 |
float plane | 111 | caddis float tube | 30 |
float hope soundtrack | 101 | decoration float | 29 |
float idea parade | 97 | club float | 29 |
float fishing | 89 | build float parade | 27 |
float switch | 87 | 4th float july parade | 24 |
float trip | 82 | float idea | 24 |
float on dock | 78 | coast float oregon | 23 |
swimming pool float | 73 | float home | 23 |
root beer float | 71 | float oklahoma trip | 23 |
float park rite | 58 | fox float | 22 |
baby float | 51 | bull float | 22 |
float trip in missouri | 48 | float swimming | 22 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "float"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | swem (swim), dryf (actuate, be adrift, chase, drift, drive, drive on, impel, shoo, swim). (various references) | |
Albanian | fshikëz notimi (swimming bladder), trap (booby, cockeyed, Dick, ditch, Dong, dope, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, raft, sap, sap-head, snare), transportoj (carry, convey, dray, freight, move, portage, ship, take place, transfer, transport), themeloj (constitute, establish, found, institute, lay the foundations of, open, plant, repose, set up), tapë (Bibb, bung, bunghole, Cork, Corky, gag, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopper, stopple, tap, wad), shket (flow, ricochet, sail, skid, subside), rri pezull (fluff, hang, hover), pluskues (awash, buoyant, floatable, floating, supernatant), pluskoj, nxjerr në shitje (release), notoj (ride, run, swim, wallow in), mbiujës, kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, get by, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness), hedh në qarkullim (utter). (various references) | |
Arabic | عوم (launch, prime), أنوار المسرح, البرميل (barrel), الطوف, جرى (carry out, execute, flow, occur, precipitate, roll, run, scat, take place, transact), طائرة إنقاد, طفا (drift, put out, ride, shut off, smother, swim), طفو (flotation), أسطول (command, fleet, squadron), عوامة (buoy, fleet, pontoon, raft, water wings), فلينة صنارة الصيد, سبح على ظهره, تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconsistency, inconstancy, levity, oscillate, oscillation, swing, toss, tumble, turn, variation, versatility, vicissitude, welter), تنتشر, تنتشر الأخبار, غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, shaving, soar, take off, throat, tower, trim), مسرح متنقل, عربة ذات منصة. (various references) | |
Basque | flotatu (float to). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лопатка (float-board, paddle, scapula, shoulder blade, spade-bone), плавателен мехур (air bladder), плаваща ледена маса (floe), плаваща скеля, плавей (drift, driftage, drift-wood, floatage, flotage, flotsam), плавок (swimmer), плавка (melt), плувам (be under way, keel, pull, ride, sail, steer, swim), плувец (swimmer), плувка (bobber, swimmer), поплавък, пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, mail, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, start up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash), плавам (navigate, nose, range, sail, voyage), пускам в обръщение (emit, issue), създавам (beget, build up, create, devise, erect, establish, form, make, mother, originate, present, raise up, spawn, start, throw up, work), мистрия (trowel), мяркам се (run through, show up), нанос (alluvion, alluvium, blanket, debris, deposit, deposition, drift, silt, warp, wash), наводнявам (deluge, drown, flood, flow, inundate, swamp, water), не потъвам (keep up, stay up), нещо което плува, нося (bear, bring, bring forth, bring round, carry, give, pack, sweep along, take), нося се (be rife, bound, drift, hover, rack, resound, ride, roll, sail, sashay, skim, skitter, slip, spin along, sweep, wear, wing), шамандура (buoy, drogue), спасителен пояс (buoy, life preserver, lifebelt, scaphander), сал (float-board, raft), пускам на вода. (various references) | |
Chinese | 泛 (general, vague), 浮游物, 汎 (broad, mercury, pan-, vast). (various references) | |
Czech | vznášet se (hover, impend, ride, soar). (various references) | |
Danish | svømme (swim). (various references) | |
Dutch | zweven (hover), vlotten (advance, progress), dobberen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | flosi, naĝi (swim), ŝvebi (hover). (various references) | |
Faeroese | flóta (flow), svimja (swim), sveima (hover), svíva (hover). (various references) | |
Farsi | سوهان پهن , سوهان زدن (Rasp), جسم شناوربرروی اب , روی اب ایستادن , شناورشدن (Swim), بستنی مخلوطباشربت وغیره . (various references) | |
Finnish | uimuri (float lever, floater), uida (bathe, swim), koho (buoy), kelluke (drop, pontoon). (various references) | |
French | flotter (flow), train de bois, flotteur (float body, float lever, floater), flotte (fleet). (various references) | |
Frisian | swimme (swim, to swim). (various references) | |
German | schwimmer (Bob, cast, pontoon, swimmer), schwimmen (be at sea, be awash, floatage, flotage, flounder, swim, swimming, to bathe, to float, to swim, to take a swim), floß (raft). (various references) | |
Greek | σχεδία (pontoon, raft), φελλός (cork), επιπλέω (buoy, waft). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעגן (anchorage, haven, jetty, roadsted), מצוף (buoy), להשיט, לרפרף (flip through, flutter, shimmy, wobble), לרחף (flit, hover, skim, soar, waft), לצוף (flow, ride, surface), קרון תצוגה, גלגל הצלה, צף (afloat, buoy, floating, natant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tutaj (catamaran, raft), úszik (drift, ridden, rode, swim, to drift, to float, to ride), úszógömb, úszó (awash, bob, bobber, cork, fin, floating, floaty, natatorial, paddle, pontoon, quill, sludge, swimmer, swimming). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terkatung-katung (be uncertain, drift, hover), mengapung (float upward, soar), apung-apung (lifebuoy), apung (buoyet up). (various references) | |
Italian | nuotare (floatage, flotage, swim, swimming), galleggiante (barge, buoyant, floater, floating). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フレコン化 (changing something to full remote control, flex, flextime, floater serve, floating, flooring, flora, flow, flow inflation, flowchart, French, French cancan, French dressing, French kiss, French sleeve, French toast, fresh, fresher, freshman, fret, fretless, friend, friendly, friends, friendship, frozen food, frozen yoghurt, newly hired career-track company employee, wooden floor), 浮き輪 (life buoy), 浮き (buoy), 屋台 (cart, food cart). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フロート , うきわ (life buoy), うき (buoy, rainy season, signs of rain, threatening to rain), やたい (cart, food cart). (various references) | |
Korean | 부낭. (various references) | |
Malay | berenang (swim). (various references) | |
Manx | snauean (raft), snaue (bathing, course, crawl, crawling, creep, creep as child, creeping, floating, flotation, glide, gliding, in suspension, scuttle; track of snail; swimming, scuttle; track; swimming, sidle, slither, slithering, swim), shiauilley (play), mollag (buoy), dray, cairt skianagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | flyte (flow), flottør, flåte (fleet), sveve (hover), svømme (swim), dupp. (various references) | |
Occitan | flotar. (various references) | |
Papiamen | landra (swim), landa (swim), drif. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatflay.(various references) | |
Polish | pływać (swim). (various references) | |
Portuguese | flutuador (dasher), pairar (buzz, fly, hover, poise), nadar (bathe, swim), flutuar (buoy, drift, flirt, flit, flown, fluctuate, fly, swim, waft), boiar (hesitate, oscillate, swim, waft), bóia (buoy). (various references) | |
Romanian | pluti (boat, navigate, sail, stand off, stand on, swim, wander), înota (have a swim, swim). (various references) | |
Russian | плавать (navigate, sail, swam, swim, swims, swum, voyage). (various references) | |
Scottish | snàmh (floating, swim, swimming, the art of swimming). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta pića (shrub, sillabub), uložen novac, splavariti (raft), splav (raft), pokrenuti (initiate, move, propel, restart, set in motion, start up), plutati (buoy), plovak (ball cock, bob, bobber), plivati (swim). (various references) | |
Spanish | nadar (floatage, flotage, swim, swimming), flotar (drift, hover, waft, wave), flotador (floater, pontoon, swimmer), balsa (balsa, balsa wood, ferry, ferryboat, pond, raft, rettery, swamp). (various references) | |
Sranan | swen (swim), drifi, dribi. (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-ntanta (to float). (various references) | |
Swedish | sväva (flit, glide, hover, kite, sail, waver), flyta (be fluid, flow, gutter, run, swim), flottör (float lever, floater), flöte (bobber). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lumangóy (swim). (various references) | |
Thai | เริ่มโครงการ, เดินนวยนาด, ชูชีพ, สิ่งที่ลอยได้ เช่น แพ, ทำให้ลอยได้, ลอยบนผิวน้ำหรือในอากาศ, ขบวนรถแห่ในงานรื่นเริง. (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzmek (bathe, flinch, go for a swim, ride, shave, strike out, swim). (various references) | |
Turkmen | galtga. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сплавляти (alloy, conflate, fuse), буй (beacon, buoy), поплавець (bobber, dobber, pontoon, swimmer), паром, плавати (bathe, sail, swim). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái phao. (various references) | |
Welsh | nofio (swim). (various references) | |
Yucatec | baab (swim). (various references) | |
Zulu | -bhukuda (swim). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abner, aner, defluant, defluebantque, defluent, defluenti, defluentibus, deflueret, defluet, defluit, defluxerunt, defluxit, dina, fluctuabat, fluctuantem, fluctuantes, fluctuate, fluctuatur, iamnor, iannes, ilionas, macedonas, nabo, nare, nares, nata, natandum, natans, natantia, natare, natas, natatoria, natatoriam, natavitque, nate, nates, natis, nato, navi, nemini, nemrod, nemus, ner, nili, no, sidonem, transnataverunt. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fleotan. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | balsa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "float": floatage, floatages, floatation, floatations, floated, floatel, floatels, floater, floaters, floatier, floatiest, floating, floatplane, floatplanes, floats, floaty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "float": afloat, refloat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "float": refloated, refloating, refloats. (additional references) | |
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"Float" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fboa, Flahaut, flaod, Flatt, fleart, Fleat, fload, floam, floar, floate, floaw, floit, flont, flooar, floot, flopt, flot, Flote, Flotex, Floto, flouty, flova, Floya, fluit, foat, folate, folit, foota, froat, klooit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "float" (pronounced flō"t) |
| 4 | f l ō" t | afloat. |
| 3 | -l ō" t | bloat, gloat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aloft, flota. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: alto, flat, foal, loaf, loft, lota, tola. | |
-2 letters: aft, alt, fat, lat, lot, oaf, oat, oft, tao. | |
-3 letters: al, at, fa, la, lo, of, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: afloat, floats, floaty, flotas, foetal, folate, fontal. | |
+2 letters: batfowl, boatful, fallout, flattop, floated, floatel, floater, flokati, flotage, flotsam, flyboat, folates, foliate, foxtail, frontal, hayloft, outfall, refloat. | |
+3 letters: batfowls, blastoff, boastful, boatfuls, conflate, deflator, falconet, fallouts, falsetto, faltboat, fellatio, fellator, flameout, flatboat, flatfoot, flatiron, flatlong, flattops, flatwork, flatworm, fleawort, floatage, floatels, floaters, floatier, floating, flokatis, flotages, flotilla, flotsams, flyboats, foldboat, foliated, foliates, folktale, fontanel, football, footfall, footwall, forestal, foxtails, frontals, gatefold, halftone, haylofts, holdfast, inflator, lifeboat, loathful, meatloaf, nonfatal, outfable, outfalls, outflank, pantofle, platform, refloats, softball, toadflax, trifocal. | |
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