| afloat | (adjective) borne on the water; floating | - |
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| (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| bloat | (noun) swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas | - |
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| (verb) become bloated or swollen or puff up | - |
| (verb) make bloated or swollen | - |
| bloated | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| bloater | (noun) large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked | - |
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| bobfloat | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobber, cork |
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| float | (noun) an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy | Synonyms: air bladder, swim bladder |
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| (noun) something that floats on the surface of water | - |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco | Synonyms: plasterer's float |
| (noun) an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade | - |
| (noun) a drink with ice cream floating in it | Synonyms: ice-cream float, ice-cream soda |
| (noun) the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public | - |
| (noun) the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment | - |
| (verb) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation | - |
| (verb) allow (currencies) to fluctuate | - |
| (verb) make the surface of level or smooth | - |
| (verb) put into the water | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift |
| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: swim |
| (verb) set afloat | - |
| (verb) move lightly, as if suspended | - |
| (verb) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with | - |
| floatation | (noun) financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares | Synonyms: flotation |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) | Synonyms: flotation |
| floater | (noun) an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location | Synonyms: floating policy |
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| (noun) an object that floats or is capable of floating | - |
| (noun) a swimmer who floats in the water | - |
| (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, vagabond, vagrant |
| (noun) a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election | - |
| (noun) an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed | - |
| (noun) a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) | - |
| (noun) spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens | Synonyms: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, spots |
| floating | (adjective) borne up by or suspended in a liquid | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to move or be moved about | - |
| (adjective) not definitely committed to a party or policy | - |
| (adjective) (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position | - |
| (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant |
| (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: natation |
| floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
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| floaty | (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: buoyant |
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| gloat | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloating |
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| (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, triumph |
| (verb) gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy | - |
| gloating | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloat |
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| gloatingly | (adverb) in a gloating manner | - |
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| loath | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loth |
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| (adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | Synonyms: loth, reluctant |
| loathe | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, execrate |
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| loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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| loathing | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium |
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| loathly | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| loathsome | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
| loathsomeness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| refloat | (verb) set afloat again | - |
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