19. float an inflated bag to sustain a person in water; life preserver.
20. float (in a tank, cistern, etc.) a device, as a hollow ball, that through its buoyancy automatically regulates the level, supply, or outlet of a liquid.
21. float a floating platform attached to a wharf, bank, etc., and used as a landing.
22. float a hollow, boatlike structure under the wing or fuselage of a seaplane or flying boat that keeps it afloat in water.
23. float a piece of cork or other materialsupporting a baited fishing line in the water.
24. float an inflated organ that supports an animal in the water.
25. float a vehicle bearing a display, usu. an elaborate tableau, in a parade or procession.
6. (noun)float something that floats on the surface of water
7. (verb)air bladder, swim bladder, float an air-filled sac near the spinalcolumn in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
8. (verb)float, drift, be adrift, blow be in motion due to some air or watercurrent "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"
9. (verb)float, swim be afloat either on or below a liquidsurface and not sink to the bottom
10. (verb)float set afloat "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
11. (verb)float circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
12. (verb)float move lightly, as if suspended "The dancer floated across the stage"
1. (verb)float to remain or make sth remain on the surface of water sailboats floating on the pond; children floating sticks in the stream
2. float to move through the air slowly leaves floating down from the trees
3. float to sell a company's shares to the public for the firsttime We have decided to float the company.
Definition of 'float'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)float to rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up
2. (noun)float 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
3. (verb)float 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
20. (verb)float to support and sustain the credit of, as a commercialscheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation