Afloat

/əˈfloʊt/ · adverb

Meaning

In or into a state of floating..

Definitions by Sense

1. In or into a state of floating.
2. In, or while in, a vessel at sea or on another body of water; at sea.
3. Under water (bearing floating objects).
4. (figurative, of ideas, information, etc.) In or into circulation or currency.
5. (obsolete, figurative, of an emotional state) In or into a condition of stimulation, arousal, confusion, bewilderment, etc.
6. Floating.
7. In, or found while in, a vessel at sea or on another body of water.
8. Floating in the air; flowing freely; not tied, braided, etc. (of hair or clothing)

Example Sentences

You have so little Brains, that a Penn’orth of Butter melted under ’um, would set ’um afloat:

[…] I went down to my Boat, got the Water out of her, and got her afloat, loaded all my Cargo in her, and then went Home again for more;

Oh why is heaven built so far, / Oh why is earth set so remote? / I cannot reach the nearest star / That hangs afloat.

[…] that trade […] may likewise employ many useful hands both ashore and afloat,

They was the roughest crew afloat, was Flint’s; the devil himself would have been feared to go to sea with them.

Navy chow ashore is rarely as good as it is afloat, and for enlisted men it is usually much worse.

1695, Edmund Gibson (translator), Camden’s Britannia, London: A. Swalle, “Staffordshire,” […] it [the River Dove] overflows and lays the meadows afloat in April, like another Nile.

setting a lie aflote

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