float

float 1

• verb

1
a) [I] to stay or move on the surface of a liquid without sinking:
?oil floats on water
?Someone had seen a body floating near the shore.
b) [T] to make something float:
?The logs are floated down the river.
2 [I] to stay in the air or move slowly through the air:
?The balloon floated up into the sky.
3 [T] to sell SHAREs or BONDs to people for the first time

float 2

• noun [C]

a large vehicle that is decorated to be part of a PARADE