flote

• IPA^(key): /fləʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt
• Homophone: float

flote

1. simple past tense of flite.

Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).

flote (plural flotes)

1. (obsolete) A wave.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:

     Ar. […] and for the reſt o'th' Fleet
     (Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe,
     And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote
     Bound ſadly home for Naples,
     Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt,
     And his great perſon periſh.

flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)

1. To fleet; to skim.
   • 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, OCLC 1049068421; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, OCLC 7109675:

     seald their Milk before they flote it

• TOEFL

flote

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of fluiten

flote

1. Alternative form of flouter

Inherited from Old English flota (“fleet”), from Proto-Germanic *flutô, with influence from Old English flot (from Proto-Germanic *flutą) and Old French flote (from the same Germanic root as the two Old English terms).

• floote, fflote, flot

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːt(ə)/

flote (plural flotes)

1. Something that floats; a float or boat.
2. A fleet; a collection or grouping of vessels.
3. A group, band or mass of soldiers or fighters.
4. The condition of floating; flotation.
5. (rare) A mass or group of animals.
6. (rare) A body or mass of liquid.

• floten

• English: float
• Scots: flote, flot

• “flōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.

flote

1. Alternative form of floten

From Old Norse floti.

• flåte

flote m (definite singular floten, indefinite plural flotar, definite plural flotane)

1. raft
2. fleet

flote

1. past participle of flyta

Germanic, compare English float.

flote f (oblique plural flotes, nominative singular flote, nominative plural flotes)

1. fleet (collection of several watercraft)

• IPA^(key): [ˈflote]

flote f

1. inflection of flotă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

flote m (plural flotes)

1. floatation (action and effect of floating)

   Synonyms: flotadura, flotación

• a flote (afloat)

flote

1. inflection of flotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “flote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014