floated
SayFLOH-tid/ˈfloʊtɪd/UK/ˈfləʊtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of float.
The empty bottle floated out to sea on the evening tide.
Rumors of a merger floated around the office for weeks.
Note
One spelling covers both past forms, as with any regular -ed verb, and the meaning of float decides which job it can do. The intransitive senses take have: the raft had floated free. A passive is possible only with the transitive sense of causing something to float: the logs were floated downstream. So the bottle was floated means someone set it on the water, not that it drifted.
floated is a form of float
float, verb: To rest on the surface of a liquid that is denser than the object, with part of it remaining above the surface. Full entry
- Spelling
- float → floated: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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