What is another word for floats?

Pronunciation: [flˈə͡ʊts] (IPA)

Floats are objects that sit on top of a liquid, and are used for a variety of purposes such as decoration, marking, or buoyancy. Some synonyms for the word "floats" include "bobbers", "buoys", and "rafts". Bobbers are small floats used in fishing to indicate the position of the hook and bait. Buoys are larger floats that are anchored in water to mark channels, submerged hazards, or to guide boats. Rafts are floats used to transport people or goods over water. Other synonyms for the word "floats" include "flotation devices", "life preservers", and "inner tubes". No matter the purpose, floats are essential in many industries and recreational activities, making them a valuable resource.

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Usage examples for Floats

The street was in confusion with the gathering of floats and men and curious crowds of onlookers.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
Ice sometimes forms upon stones at the bottom of a river, and floats these off; and this curious action may take place even although no ice be forming at the time on the surface of the water.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Near the centre, left, against the dark, a flag with stars floats from its standard.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma

Famous quotes with Floats

  • Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
    Edward Abbey
  • He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.
    John Brough
  • The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
    Sigmund Freud
  • When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
    Anne Lamott
  • To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
    Archibald MacLeish

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