The substance is light enough to float on the water.
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Float
//fləʊt//
Synonyms for "float" (197 found)
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Closest matches (40)
Strong matches (59)
Related words (98)
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Verb(3 words)
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More general
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
60 entriesShowing 16 of 60 words.
distinct from
2 entrieshas context
15 entriesis a
8 entriesmanner of
7 entriesrelated to
56 entriesShowing 16 of 56 words.
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4 entriesTranslations
313 translations across 66 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- sierwa noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
Arabic
3 entries- طَفَا verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- طَفَا verb (to be capable of floating)
- عَامَ verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Assamese
3 entries- উট verb (to move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating)
- ওপং verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- ভাহ verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡалҡыуыс noun (buoyant device)
Belarusian
4 entries- папла́ваць verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- паплы́ць verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- пла́ваць verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- плыць verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Bengali
3 entries- ভাসা verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- ভাসা verb (to be capable of floating)
- ভাসানো verb (to cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density)
Bulgarian
4 entries- буй noun (buoyant device)
- мистрия noun (sort of trowel)
- поплавък noun (buoyant device)
- държа се на повърхността verb (to be capable of floating)
Burmese
1 entries- မျော verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Catalan
4 entries- boia noun (buoyant device)
- carrossa noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- flotador noun (buoyant device)
- taloja noun (sort of trowel)
Cebuano
1 entries- lutaw verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᎧᏄᎯ verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- ᎧᏄᎲᏗᎭ verb (to cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 浮 verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 花車 /花车 noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- 浮 verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Czech
2 entries- plavat verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- plout verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Dutch
4 entries- dobber noun (buoyant device)
- praalwagen noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- rasp noun (tool similar to a rasp)
- soort truweel noun (sort of trowel)
Esperanto
1 entries- flosi verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Estonian
1 entries- hõljuma verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Finnish
4 entries- floattaus noun (poker maneuver)
- hierrin noun (sort of trowel)
- höyläraspi noun (tool similar to a rasp)
- jakeluauto noun (small delivery vehicle)
French
4 entries- char noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- flotteur noun (buoyant device)
- taloche noun (sort of trowel)
- flotter verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Galician
2 entries- aboiar verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- flotar verb (to be supported by a liquid)
German
4 entries- Festwagen noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- Floß noun (buoyant device)
- Schwimmer (as in a carburetor) noun (buoyant device)
- borgen verb (colloquial: to extend a short-term loan to)
Greek
1 entries- φελλός noun (buoyant device)
Hebrew
2 entries- מָצוֹף noun (buoyant device)
- צָף verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Hindi
2 entries- तैरना verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- तैरना verb (to cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density)
Hungarian
4 entries- úszó noun (buoyant device)
- felszínen marad verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- felszínen tart verb (to cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density)
- felvet verb (to propose for consideration)
Indonesian
2 entries- apung verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- mengapung verb (to be capable of floating)
Irish
1 entries- flóta noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
Italian
4 entries- appianatoia noun (sort of trowel)
- carro allegorico noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- frattazzo noun (sort of trowel)
- pialletto noun (sort of trowel)
Japanese
4 entries- フロート noun (soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream)
- 左官鏝 noun (sort of trowel)
- 浮き noun (buoyant device)
- 浮揚物 noun (buoyant device)
Kabuverdianu
3 entries- bóia noun (buoyant device)
- boia verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- boiá verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Khmer
2 entries- ប៉ោង noun (buoyant device)
- អន្ដែត verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Latin
2 entries- fluitō verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- volito verb (to drift gently through the air)
Lithuanian
4 entries- plaustas noun (buoyant device)
- plūdė noun (buoyant device)
- plaukti verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- plaukti verb (to be capable of floating)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- pławiś verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Malay
3 entries- ambang verb (to drift gently through the air)
- terapung verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- امبڠ verb (to drift gently through the air)
Middle English
3 entries- fleten verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- floten verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- swymmen verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Māori
4 entries- kārewa noun (buoyant device)
- kōrewa noun (buoyant device)
- kōrewarewa verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- mānu verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Nepali
1 entries- तैरिनु verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Norman
4 entries- fliotte noun (buoyant device)
- liège noun (buoyant device)
- fliotter verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- fliotter verb (to be capable of floating)
Old English
1 entries- flēotan verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یوزمك verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Persian
1 entries- شناوری verb (to be supported by a fluid)
Polish
4 entries- akumulatorowy pojazd noun (small delivery vehicle)
- blef noun (poker maneuver)
- fundusze do spłacenia noun (funds committed to be paid but not yet paid)
- koktajl lodowy noun (soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream)
Portuguese
4 entries- boia noun (buoyant device)
- broquel noun (sort of trowel)
- carro alegórico noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- boiar verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Quechua
2 entries- tuytuy verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- wamp'uy verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Romanian
4 entries- car alegoric noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- plutitor noun (buoyant device)
- plută noun (buoyant device)
- pluti verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Romansch
1 entries- flottar verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Russian
4 entries- глади́лка noun (sort of trowel)
- мастеро́к noun (sort of trowel)
- платфо́рма noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- плот noun (buoyant device)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- plovak noun (buoyant device)
- baciti verb (to propose for consideration)
- besciljno se kretati verb (to drift aimlessly)
- lebdjeti verb (to drift gently through the air)
Spanish
4 entries- boya noun (buoyant device)
- carroza noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- correr verb (to propose for consideration)
- flotar verb (to be supported by a fluid)
Sundanese
2 entries- ambang verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- ngambang verb (to be capable of floating)
Swahili
1 entries- elea verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Swedish
4 entries- flöte noun (buoyant device)
- driva omkring verb (to drift aimlessly)
- flyta verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- flyta verb (to be capable of floating)
Tagalog
2 entries- karang noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
- karosa noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
Tamil
1 entries- மித verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Telugu
1 entries- తేలు verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Tooro
2 entries- seereera verb (to be supported by a fluid)
- seereera verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Turkish
1 entries- şamandıra noun (buoyant device)
Ukrainian
2 entries- плавати, плисти verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- трима́тися на воді́ verb (to be capable of floating)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- płuwać verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Vietnamese
3 entries- nổi verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- nổi verb (to be capable of floating)
- trôi verb (to move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating)
Volapük
1 entries- flotön verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- lu-taw verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Welsh
1 entries- car sioe noun (trailer or vehicle decorated for a parade)
Yiddish
3 entries- פֿלאָוט noun (soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream)
- שווימען verb (to be supported by a liquid)
- שוועבן verb (to drift gently through the air)
Zealandic
1 entries- drieve verb (to be supported by a liquid)
Sample sentences
59 total sentences available.
Hey! Throw that float to me.
Source: tatoeba (65167)
Particles of dust float in the atmosphere.
Source: tatoeba (244200)
In my youth we used to float down the river on a raft.
Source: tatoeba (258437)
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