Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to float
Participle: floated
Gerund: floating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | float |
| you | float |
| he;she;it | floats |
| we | float |
| you | float |
| they | float |
Perfect
| I | have floated |
| you | have floated |
| he;she;it | has floated |
| we | have floated |
| you | have floated |
| they | have floated |
Past
| I | floated |
| you | floated |
| he;she;it | floated |
| we | floated |
| you | floated |
| they | floated |
Pluperfect
| I | had floated |
| you | had floated |
| he;she;it | had floated |
| we | had floated |
| you | had floated |
| they | had floated |
Future
| I | will float |
| you | will float |
| he;she;it | will float |
| we | will float |
| you | will float |
| they | will float |
Future Perfect
| I | will have floated |
| you | will have floated |
| he;she;it | will have floated |
| we | will have floated |
| you | will have floated |
| they | will have floated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | float |
| you | float |
| he;she;it | float |
| we | float |
| you | float |
| they | float |
Perfect
| I | have floated |
| you | have floated |
| he;she;it | have floated |
| we | have floated |
| you | have floated |
| they | have floated |
Imperfect
| I | floated |
| you | floated |
| he;she;it | floated |
| we | floated |
| you | floated |
| they | floated |
Pluperfect
| I | had floated |
| you | had floated |
| he;she;it | had floated |
| we | had floated |
| you | had floated |
| they | had floated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would float |
| you | would float |
| he;she;it | would float |
| we | would float |
| you | would float |
| they | would float |
Perfect
| I | would have floated |
| you | would have floated |
| he;she;it | would have floated |
| we | would have floated |
| you | would have floated |
| they | would have floated |
Imperative
| you | float |
| we | Let's float |
| you | float |
Verbs conjugated like 'float'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'float'
bloat,
flat,
flout,
gloat,
blat,
bleat,
blot,
boat,
cleat,
cloak,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
flotian "to float" (class II strong verb; past tense
fleat, pp.
floten), from P.Gmc.
*flutojanan (cf. O.N.
flota, M.Du.
vloten). The noun meaning "platform on wheels used for displays in parades, etc." is from 1888, probably from earlier sense of "flat-bottomed boat" (1557).
Floater "dead body found in water" is 1890, U.S. slang.
2. From Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”). Compare flow, fleet. See: Middle English '
floten', Old English '
flotian', Proto-Germanic '
*flutōną'.
Verbs referencing "float"
English
flow, French
flotter, Russian
плавать, Greek, Ancient
πλέω, Danish
flåde, Sanskrit
प्लवते.
Sample Sentences
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It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters. Owing to the peculiar form of the shore on the Kentucky side, the land bending far out into the water, the ice had been lodged and detained [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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It rained all day as I once thought it never did rain anywhere, but in the Highlands of Scotland. The river was full of floating blocks of ice, which were constantly crunching and cracking under us; and the depth of water, in the course we took to avoid the larger masses, carried down the middle of the river by the current, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] board the packet New York for New York. This was the first American steamboat of any size that I had seen; and certainly to an English eye it was infinitely less like a steamboat than a huge floating bath. I could hardly persuade myself, indeed, but that the bathing establishment off Westminster Bridge, which I left a baby, had suddenly grown to an enormous size; run away from home; and set up [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] its free companionship; and, sympathising with its buoyant spirits, glistened as it seemed in sport upon its surface, and hemmed the vessel round, and plashed the water high about her sides, and, floating her gallantly into the dock, flew off again to welcome other comers, and speed before them to the busy port.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The La Belle Riviere, as brave and beautiful a boat as ever walked the waters of her namesake river, was floating gayly down the stream, under a brilliant sky, the stripes and stars of free America waving and fluttering over head; the guards crowded with well-dressed ladies and gentlemen walking and enjoying [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] together by a wharf-side, which, looked down upon from the rising ground that forms the landing-place, and backed by the lofty bank on the opposite side of the river, appeared no larger than so many floating models. She had some forty passengers on board, exclusive of the poorer persons on the lower deck; and in half an hour, or less, proceeded on her way.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] New Orleans, the river is higher than the surrounding country, and rolls its tremendous volume between massive levees twenty feet in height. The traveller from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. Tom, therefore, had spread out full before him, in plantation after plantation, a map of the life to which he was approaching.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] by which the dullest and most literal were impressed, without exactly knowing why. The shape of her head and the turn of her neck and bust was peculiarly noble, and the long golden-brown hair that floated like a cloud around it, the deep spiritual gravity of her violet blue eyes, shaded by heavy fringes of golden brown,—all marked her out from other children, and made every one turn and look after [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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For two days we toiled up this foul stream, striking constantly against the floating timber, or stopping to avoid those more dangerous obstacles, the snags, or sawyers, which are the hidden trunks of trees that have their roots below the tide. When the nights are very dark, the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] journey, the shooting down it with the turbid current is almost worse; for then the boat, proceeding at the rate of twelve or fifteen miles an hour, has to force its passage through a labyrinth of floating logs, which, in the dark, it is often impossible to see beforehand or avoid. All that night, the bell was never silent for five minutes at a time; and after every ring the vessel reeled again, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)