Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In a floating position or condition.
- adv. On a boat or ship away from the shore; at sea.
- adv. In circulation; prevailing: Rumors are afloat.
- adv. Awash; flooded.
- adv. Drifting about; moving without guidance.
- adv. Free or out of difficulty, especially financial difficulty: couldn't keep the business afloat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Borne on the water; in a floating condition: as, the ship is afloat.
- Figuratively, moving; passing from place to place; in circulation: as, a rumor is afloat.
- Unfixed; moving without guide or control: as, our affairs are all afloat.
- In a state of overflow; flooded: as, the main deck was afloat.
- On board ship; at sea: as,cargo afloat and ashore.
Wiktionary
- adv. floating
- adv. out at sea
- adv. making successful progress under one's own steam
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
- adv. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation.
- adv. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift.
- adv. Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. aimlessly drifting
- adj. covered with water
- adj. borne on the water; floating.
Examples
“Furthermore, your claim that defense spending keeps our economy afloat is also ridiculous.”
“it is disappointing that 'girl friendly' doesn't equal sales and that to keep the title afloat DC may have to return to 'perv horndog friendly' tactics.”
“While QANTAS are certainly showing signs of agility, the primary factor keeping the group afloat is the success of their Low Cost Carrier brand Jetstar.”
“HAMILTON: What keeps them afloat is the bestsellers.”
“In fact, the only thing keeping them even close to afloat is the massive amount of junk mail (dead tree spam) they deliver, and the fact that we need a nice fat paper trail of our financial transactions to prove our compliance with the tax code (statements, bills, etc) in the event of an audit.”
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“The paltry 34 billion that the “American Auto makers” need to stay afloat is nothing compared to the seven trillion we have spent covering the bankers bets.”
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“The only thing that keeps him and his family afloat is the fact that he earns enough to pay for it.”
“So on the walk this morning I was wondering what else to add to the list, just to do my bit to keep Amazin afloat, you understand.”
“But I don't think it matters because the Minnow, while still technically afloat, is already lost at sea.”
“Trying to keep a hiccupping business alive and keeping my name afloat at the same time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘afloat’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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general search words
words when I found them in the articles
benign, pantomime, deregulation, regressive, morose, staid, mercurial, temperament, ludicrous, fallacy, discord, afloat and 17 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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Because I like them: A -- B
abacinate, aberdevine, ablepsy, abuccinate, acarology, acipenserine, abactor, adamantine, addressin, aeoline, ahimsa, agelast and 151 more...
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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A Dram Too Many
notanotherjazzpoet had a very promising list which appears to have petered out. Yes, tosspots: descriptions of being drunk. Walk five metres on the white line then leave your suggestions right here.
drunk, guttered, pissed, baked, three sails in th..., smashed, paralytic, out of your tree, hammered, bombed, glazed, blotto and 336 more...
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Prosie: The Launch of the Mauretania ...
by John Maxtone-Graham. Tons of interesting-sounding words, half of which I cannot comprehend on their own, but which together conjure an unmistakable image of naval architecture and shipyard activ...
keel, hull, admiralty, moulding loft, frame-bender, berth, stern, shell plating, tons, mill, fitted, rivet marks and 132 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
Tweets
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Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,
Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.
Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,
And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.
Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat,
Wary of the weather and steering by a star?
Shall it be to Africa, a-steeringof the boat,
To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Pirate Story'. Nov 4, 2008