Entertain vs Floater - What's the difference?
entertain | floater |
To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
(transitive, and, intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
* Bible, Heb. xiii. 2
To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
* De Quincey
* Hawthorne
(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) ; pleasure.
(obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.
An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
(insurance ) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
(police jargon ) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
(sports) An unaffiliated player.
(surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
(vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
(slang) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” that person.
(AU) A pie floater.
As nouns the difference between entertain and floater
is that entertain is (obsolete) ; pleasure while floater is agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.As a verb entertain
is to amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.entertain
English
Verb
(en verb)- to entertain friends with lively conversation
- The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
- They enjoy entertaining a lot.
- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers
- The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
- to entertain a proposal
- I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
- A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
- You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
- (Shakespeare)
- to baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus
Derived terms
* entertainer * entertaining * entertainmentNoun
(-)- But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […].
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*floater
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia floater)- He left a floater in the toilet.
- 1998: In this section "floater" means a spin in which at least 1 of the coins does not turn over in the air at least once.'' — Queensland government ''Casino Gaming Amendment Rule (No. 2) 1998 [http://web.archive.org/web/20040730160912/http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/SLS/1998/98SL233.pdf]
