Synonym: hold up, raft, sustain. Similar words: boat, loan, goat, load, throat, a load of, flour, flow. Meaning: [fləʊt] 
n. 1. 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. an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade 5. a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco 6. something that remains on the surface of a liquid. v. 1. be in motion due to some air or water current 2. be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink 3. set afloat 4. circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with 5. move lightly, as if suspended 6. put into the water 7. make the surface of level or smooth 8. allow (currencies) to fluctuate 9. convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation.
n. 1. 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. an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade 5. a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco 6. something that remains on the surface of a liquid. v. 1. be in motion due to some air or water current 2. be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink 3. set afloat 4. circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with 5. move lightly, as if suspended 6. put into the water 7. make the surface of level or smooth 8. allow (currencies) to fluctuate 9. convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation. 
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(31) A fresh egg will sink and an old egg will float.
(32) An outsize cotton shoes was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street.
(33) Strange thoughts float through my mind when I am nearly asleep.
(34) Her voice seemed to float on the water as gently as a slight mist.
(35) A decision by the Finns to float their currency sent a shudder through the foreign exchanges.
(36) The advisers are delaying the key decision on whether to float 60 per cent or 100 per cent of the shares.
(37) The club display was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street.
(38) No pumice will float indefinitely, though.
(39) A chair and me float past each other. Sentencedict.com
(40) Spectacular examples of this are rayon and float glass.
(41) Every sportswriter can float three trade rumors a year.
(42) Students will float to the mark you set.
(43) The one crawling like a milk float.
(44) Put the words float and sink on the board.
(45) Balloons float, a high-wire circus act teeters.
(46) Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali 
(47) Both leaves and flowers float on the surface.
(48) Oil stains float like lily pads.
(49) Why does the egg float in salt water?
(50) It seldom strays far from this retreat, feeding on organisms that float by with the current.
(51) But debate is raging over whether it was intended to float on water or through the afterlife.
(52) It took two additional tractors to disinter the float and permit Hirt and Channing to go on with the show.
(53) If not a Carley float, then certainly an inflatable rubber dinghy.
(54) Our life is like a boat that can float. Some row and go! Some blink and sink!! RVM
(55) But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows.
(56) I drove without a word, letting myself float on the wave of their hilarity.
(57) She might even make room for Louise on her float.
(58) At other times, it has pursued a policy of letting the pound float.
(59) The ark is vast, designed to float, not sail - and there were no launching problems!
(60) Like all liquids, water that is less dense tends to float upon water that is more dense.