Float (Verb)
Meaning 1
Move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage".
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 2
Make the surface of level or smooth; "float the plaster".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 3
Set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond".
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 4
Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 5
Put into the water; "float a ship".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 6
Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 7
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".
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 8
Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
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Meaning 9
Allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.