"dead man's float" meaning in All languages combined

See dead man's float on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: dead man's floats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dead man's float (plural dead man's floats)
  1. (swimming) A floating position in which the swimmer lies face down on the water with the arms extended forward and the legs behind them. Categories (topical): Swimming
    Sense id: en-dead_man's_float-en-noun-j3E4~YOE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, swimming

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dead man's floats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dead man's float (plural dead man's floats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Swimming",
          "orig": "en:Swimming",
          "parents": [
            "Water sports",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A floating position in which the swimmer lies face down on the water with the arms extended forward and the legs behind them."
      ],
      "id": "en-dead_man's_float-en-noun-j3E4~YOE",
      "links": [
        [
          "swimming",
          "swimming#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(swimming) A floating position in which the swimmer lies face down on the water with the arms extended forward and the legs behind them."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports",
        "swimming"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead man's float"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dead man's floats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dead man's float (plural dead man's floats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Swimming"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A floating position in which the swimmer lies face down on the water with the arms extended forward and the legs behind them."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swimming",
          "swimming#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(swimming) A floating position in which the swimmer lies face down on the water with the arms extended forward and the legs behind them."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports",
        "swimming"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead man's float"
}

Download raw JSONL data for dead man's float meaning in All languages combined (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.