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Verb float has 9 senses
- 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"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- float, swim - be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Antonyms: sink, settle, go down, go under
Sample sentence:
These cars won't float
- float - set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
--3 is one way to transport
Sample sentence:
The girls float the wooden sticks
- float - circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
--4 is one way to test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- float - move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage"
--5 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
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Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- float - put into the water; "float a ship"
--6 is one way to launch
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Somebody ----s something
- float - make the surface of level or smooth; "float the plaster"
--7 is one way to smooth, smoothen
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Somebody ----s something
- float - allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
--8 is one way to value
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- float - convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
--9 is one way to convert, change over
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Somebody ----s something
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