Word Meanings - FLOATABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That may be floated.
Related words: (words related to FLOATABLE)
- FLOATATION
See FLOTATION - FLOATABLE
That may be floated. - FLOATY
Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh. - FLOATINGLY
In a floating manner. - FLOATAGE
See FLOTAGE - FLOATING CHARGE; FLOATING LIEN
A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed. - FLOATING
1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, - FLOATER
1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface. - FLOAT
A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. Mortimer. - REFLOAT
Reflux; ebb. Bacon. - AFLOAT
1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs - OVERFLOAT
To overflow. Dryden.