What does float mean in English?

Float is what you do when you're lying on the water. Hopefully you know how to swim, so you can float suspended on the surface of the water, rather than sinking straight to the bottom. We typically think of the verb float as something you do on the surface of an ocean or pool, but it's possible to float in mid-air too.

What does a raft float mean?

something that floats, as a raft. something for buoying up. an inflated bag to sustain a person in water; life preserver. (in certain types of tanks, cisterns, etc.) a device, as a hollow ball, that through its buoyancy automatically regulates the level, supply, or outlet of a liquid.

What is a good example of a float?

• The drizzle was the ash of his burned offerings floating up into the sky. float along/down/past etc • Memory was a great open channel she could float down. • The forms on the ceiling floated down and prowled around her. • A chair and me float past each other.

What is a float in a parade?

A float is a small object attached to a fishing line which floats on the water and moves when a fish has been caught. A float is a truck on which displays and people in special costumes are carried in a parade. ...a procession of makeshift floats bearing loudspeakers and banners. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.