Word Meanings - FLOATABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be floated.

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.