Results for waft

Definitions of waft:

part of speech: noun

A floating body: a signal made by moving something, as a flag, in the air.

part of speech: verb transitive

To bear through a fluid medium, as air or water.

part of speech: noun

A signal made by moving something, as a flag, in the air; a floating body.

part of speech: noun

The act of causing to float along; a current or wave; a gust or puff.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To float.

part of speech: verb

To convey or transport through a fluid medium; to float, as on the water or through the air.

part of speech: verb transitive

To cause to float along through the air or on the water.

Usage examples for waft:

• Although the tentacles may be correctly described as organs used in capturing prey, they do not themselves seize it but waft it by means of the currents set up by their cilia to the mouth, into which it is swept by the currents produced by the cilia lining the pharynx. "Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa", Nelson Annandale

• We must play the game with a careless smile, Though there's nothing in the hand; We must toil as if it were worth our while Spinning our ropes of sand; And laugh, and cry, and live, and die At the waft of an unseen hand. "Platform Monologues", T. G. Tucker

• While some were below, stowing the precious cargo, others were in some preparation for a lifting of the anchor and getting on sail at the very first waft of the land breeze. "The Voodoo Gold Trail", Walter Walden