Definition of float

"float" in the noun sense

1. float

the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

2. float

the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

3. ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, float

a drink with ice cream floating in it

4. float

an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade

5. float, plasterer's float

a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

6. float

something that floats on the surface of water

7. air bladder, swim bladder, float

an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

"float" in the verb sense

1. float, drift, be adrift, blow

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. float, swim

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

3. float

set afloat

"He floated the logs down the river"

"The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

4. float

circulate or discuss tentatively test the waters with

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

5. float

move lightly, as if suspended

"The dancer floated across the stage"

6. float

put into the water

"float a ship"

7. float

make the surface of level or smooth

"float the plaster"

8. float

allow (currencies) to fluctuate

"The government floated the ruble for a few months"

9. float

convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation

"float data"

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Quotations for float

The insect-youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon! [ Gray ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow
From azure skies the light they wear.
Are like heaven - no sorrow
Can float over hues so fair. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

How sweetly did they float upon the wings
Of silence through the empty-vaulted night.
At every fall smoothing the raven down
Of darkness till it smiled! [ Milton ]

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Style is the gossamer on which the needs of truth float through the world. [ Bancroft ]

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]

float in Scrabble®

The word float is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters float:

ALOFT
(36)
FLOAT
(36)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word float

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float in Words With Friends™

The word float is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters float:

ALOFT
(51)
FLOAT
(51)
 

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(11)
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(10)
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(10)
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(10)
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(51)
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(51)
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(48)
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(39)
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Words within the letters of float

2 letter words in float (6 words)

3 letter words in float (6 words)

4 letter words in float (5 words)

5 letter words in float (Anagrams) (2 words)

float + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving float

Shorter words in float

at oat

Longer words containing float

afloat

bobfloat bobfloats

floatability

floatable nonfloatable

floatation floatations

floatboard floatboards

floated nonfloated

floated outfloated

floated refloated

floater floaters

floatier

floatiest

floatiness

floating floatingly

floating floatingpoint floatingpoints

floating nonfloating

floating outfloating

floating refloating

floatless

floatmaker floatmakers

floatplane floatplanes

floats bobfloats

floats floatstick floatsticks

floats outfloats

floats refloats firefloats

floats vibrofloats

floaty

outfloat outfloated

outfloat outfloating

outfloat outfloats

refloat firefloat firefloats

refloat refloated

refloat refloating

refloat refloats firefloats

selfloathe selfloathed

selfloathe selfloather selfloathers

selfloathe selfloathes

selfloathing

vibrofloat vibrofloats