FLOATS Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of float

as in hovers

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air a canoe floating down the river particles of dust floating in the air

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as in wanders

to move about from place to place aimlessly lost touch with a childhood friend who spent much of his adult life floating from place to place

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floats

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noun

plural of float

as in docks

a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers the crew put the cargo on the float before heading back down the river

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In a geological process known as isostatic rebound, the erosion reduced the weight of the region, allowing the rise of land masses on the Earth’s crust, its outermost layer that floats atop a mantle layer made of hot, semiliquid rock. —

Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024 The mountain range floats like a raft atop the denser liquid rock of the Earth’s interior, called the mantle or the asthenosphere. —

Carly Miller, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 The 242-foot (74 m) long structure isn’t like conventional tidal stream turbines and floats on the water surface instead. —

Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2024