Antonyms for float
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : floht |
| Phonetic Transcription : floÊŠt |
Definition of float
Origin :- late Old English flotian "to float" (class II strong verb; past tense fleat, past participle floten), from Proto-Germanic *flutojanan (cf. Old Norse flota, Middle Dutch vloten), from PIE root *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial). Of motion through air, from 1630s. Related: Floated; floating.
- verb lie on the surface
- As for boat, or spars, the former would not float, and of the last there was not one.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- The tide was rising now, and presently the Ithaca began to float.
- Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Jeremiah, the captain deserts the ship, but you and I will sink or float with it.'
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- He had built his ship with very slight reference to the lake on which she was to float.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- I am afraid I am not the right person to float a mine on the London market.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- Whoever eats of it is able to float in the rose-dawn without aging.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- Then, as he closed his eyes dreamily, Margaret seemed to float before him.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- The bull-heads and dobsons will float, stunned, into its meshes.
- Extract from : « Black Bass » by Charles Barker Bradford
- No longer did a flood of moonlight seem to float across the tree-tops.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- I made her fast with the cable ends and went back after the other float.
- Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
Synonyms for float
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