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Float   /floʊt/   Listen
Float

verb
(past & past part. floated; pres. part. floating)
1.
Be in motion due to some air or water current.  Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift.  "The boat drifted on the lake" , "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" , "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
2.
Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.  Synonym: swim.  Antonym: sink.
3.
Set afloat.  "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
4.
Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with.
5.
Move lightly, as if suspended.
6.
Put into the water.
7.
Make the surface of level or smooth.
8.
Allow (currencies) to fluctuate.
9.
Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation.
noun
1.
The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment.
2.
The number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public.
3.
A drink with ice cream floating in it.  Synonyms: ice-cream float, ice-cream soda.
4.
An elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade.
5.
A hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco.  Synonym: plasterer's float.
6.
Something that floats on the surface of water.
7.
An air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy.  Synonyms: air bladder, swim bladder.



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"Float" Quotes from Famous Books



... increases, and the conditions become stabilized and perfected, the manifestations will become more pronounced. It often happens that cloudy nebulous bodies of psychic substance are formed and float around in front of the cabinet, like clouds of steam or vapor illumined by a dim phosphorescent light. Sometimes attempts will seem to have been made to form these clouds into the semblance of the human body, and often these bodies are more or less incomplete, as for instance the ...
— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita

... pulp wood and the other for hard wood for the veneer mills. You make hard wood float by driving plugs of lighter wood into both ends of the log. And now, if you'll step down this way, I'll show you where ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan

... a form easily decomposable and removable by treatment with acids and washing. Soda or potash is not nearly so good for this first boiling as lime—for what reason is somewhat uncertain, but probably because they form with the grease in the cloths soluble soaps, which might float about the kier and accumulate in places where they are not required and thus lead to stains, whereas the insoluble lime soap remains where it was formed. The lime also seems to attack the natural colouring matter of the cotton, and although the colour of the limed ...
— The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics - A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student • Franklin Beech

... work of unloading the wreck. There was an inlet or mouth of a creek not far from the place where they first landed, and, constructing a raft on the wreck and loading it with arms, provisions, ammunition and tools, they took advantage of the tide to float it in to shore. This was repeated daily for weeks. Clothing, sails, provisions of all kinds, half a hundred guns and as many pistols and cutlasses, with other weapons, tools, books, writing material, and, in fact, ...
— The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story - of Bacon's Rebellion) • John R. Musick

... Improvement Company, an American corporation, succeeded as the fiscal agents of the Republic, to float its bond issues. The improvement company was displayed, and its claim was settled for four million, five hundred thousand dollars. Then a protocol was entered into between the United States and Santo Domingo by which the manner of payment was ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom


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