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flotate

flotate verb: to float.

Verb

flotate (third-person singular simple present flotates, present participle flotating, simple past and past participle flotated)

  1. (nonstandard and non-native speakers' English) To float.
    • Clouds do not flotate, they stay.1996 December 30, TMolina, “Why do clouds float??”, in sci.geo.meteorology (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022
    • OK. But I think that dragging noises does not bother so much on motorcycles. It doesn't matter much wich ^([sic]) part flotates - as long as the brake pads doesn't touch the rotor when not braking..1998 February 12, Brodkin Panu, “Disk brakes for tandems”, in rec.bicycles.tech (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022

Forms of flotate

third-person singular presentflotates
present participleflotating
past participleflotated
pastflotated

Origin of flotate

Back-formation from flotation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix). Equivalent to float + -ate.

Questions about flotate

What does flotate mean?
Flotate means to float.
What part of speech is flotate?
Flotate is a verb.
What is the past tense of flotate?
The past tense of flotate is flotated.

Words near flotate in the dictionary

  1. flotage
  2. flotages
  3. flotant
  4. flotants
  5. flotas
  6. flotate
  7. flotated
  8. flotates
  9. flotating
  10. flotating point
  11. flotation

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