Crossword-Solution: FLOAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Float | 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. |
| Float | v. i. | A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. |
| Float | v. i. | The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. |
| Float | v. i. | The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish. |
| Float | 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. |
| Float | v. i. | A float board. See Float board (below). |
| Float | 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. |
| Float | v. i. | The act of flowing; flux; flow. |
| Float | v. i. | A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. |
| Float | v. i. | The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed. |
| Float | v. i. | A polishing block used in marble working; a runner. |
| Float | v. i. | A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe. |
| Float | v. i. | A coal cart. |
| Float | v. i. | The sea; a wave. See Flote, n. |
| Float | n. | To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up. |
| Float | 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. |
| Float | 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. |
| Float | v. t. | To flood; to overflow; to cover with water. |
| Float | v. t. | To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet. |
| Float | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FLOAT | anagram | ALOFT, FALOT, FLATO, FLOTA, LOFAT |
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Sentences with FLOAT (5)
Clouds of dark vapor, like chlorine gas, began to float down from the head of the canyon and hung between them and the cliff-houses in the opposite wall.
Did we not occasionally save a few of the lower orders that stupidly float down an unknown river to an unknown end all would become the prey of the plant men and the apes.” “But do you not by every means encourage the superstition among those of the outside world?” I argued.
Yes, and they take loaves of bread and put quicksilver in ’em and set ’em afloat, and wherever there’s anybody that’s drownded, they’ll float right there and stop.” “Yes, I’ve heard about that,” said Joe.
Well, then I happened to think how they always put quicksilver in loaves of bread and float them off, because they always go right to the drownded carcass and stop there.
Lead thy men down, as if to a sally; throw the postern-gate open—There are but two men who occupy the float, fling them into the moat, and push across for the barbican.
Quotes with FLOAT (3)
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 161 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).