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Density's quiet rebellion: stay put, displace your weight, refuse to sink.
means To rest on or be suspended within a liquid or gas without sinking, drifting along with whatever current carries you.
from From Old English 'flotian,' to float or swim, rooted in a Germanic family tied to the idea of flowing — a cousin of 'fleet' and 'flow,' and distantly related to Latin 'pluere,' to rain. The watery sense came first; the financial 'float' (money in transit, shares set adrift on the market) and the parade 'float' (a platform that once literally floated on water) are later branches off the same drifting trunk.
- archimedes' law
- You float by shoving aside your own weight in water
- steel ships
- Iron floats once shaped to trap enough air
- dead sea
- So salty humans bob like helpless corks
- root book vino
- A root beer float once meant horse-drawn glory
- trading term
- A stock's float is shares actually free to trade
float by john cusack — 1997 film where a man discovers he can levitate off the ground
irish coffee float — dessert drink made with irish coffee topped with whipped cream, served in dublin pubs