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floatable

adj

Etymology

From float + -able.

  1. derived from *plewd-✻
  2. inherited from *flutōną✻ — “to float”
  3. inherited from *flotōn✻
  4. inherited from flotian — “to float”
  5. inherited from floten
  6. suffixed as floatable — “float + able”

Definitions

  1. That may be floated.

  2. That may be floated upon.

    • The river is floatable on a raft.

  3. Anything that floats.

    • The sixth minimum control is intended to reduce, if not eliminate, visible floatables and solids using relatively simple measures. Simple devices including baffles, screens, and racks can be used to remove coarse solids and floatables […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for floatable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA