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Floaty

Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

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Light 84% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Light 84% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Float 74% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Float 74% connected

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…

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Buoyant 92% connected

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.

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Air jacket unknown · 78% connection

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

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Albedo noun · 78% connection

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upo…

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Atlanta noun · 78% connection

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

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Cilium noun · 78% connection

a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms

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Cyclops noun · 78% connection

minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important i…

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

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Daylight noun · 78% connection

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

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Dioptrics noun · 78% connection

The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing…

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Drummond light unknown · 78% connection

A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…

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Face verb · 78% connection

To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smoot…

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Fluorescence noun · 78% connection

That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…

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Flush adjective · 78% connection

Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.

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Flytrap noun · 78% connection

A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when…

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Illuminate verb · 78% connection

To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

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Insubmergible adjective · 78% connection

Not capable of being submerged; buoyant.

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Lantern noun · 78% connection

Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perf…

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Level noun · 78% connection

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel…

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Levitate verb · 78% connection

To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.

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