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Float

Float Meaning & Definition
Float Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Float?

[n] something that remains on the surface of a liquid
[n] a drink with ice cream floating in it
[n] the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
[n] the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
[v] convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
[v] allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
[v] put into the water; "float a ship"
[v] move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage"
[v] set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
[v] be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
[v] be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink
[v] circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Float: ice-cream float | ice-cream soda

Related Terms | Find terms related to Float: arrange | ascend | aspire | balsa | balsa raft | barge | bathe | bear up | become airborne | boat | bob | boom | brandish | bring off | bring up | broach | bundle | bundle off | buoy | buoy up | bus | Carling float | carry off | cart | christen | claw skyward | coach | consummate | cork | dart | deluge | dip | dive | dray | drift | drown | duck | dunk | effect | establish | ferry | flap | flaunt | float high | flood | flourish | flow on | flutter | fly | fly aloft | foot | found | gain altitude | get | get going | get moving | ghost | give a start | glide | go in swimming | go in wading | go public | hang | haul | hold up | hover | inaugurate | induct | initiate | install | institute | introduce | inundate | issue | issue stock | kick off | kite | launch | leave the ground | levitate | life buoy | life preserver | life raft | lift up | lighter | negotiate | organize | plane | platform | plow the deep | poise | pontoon | pour on | pull off | put in motion | raft | rain | raise | ride | ride high | ride the sea | ring in | rise | run | sail | scud | send | send forth | send off | set afloat | set agoing | set going | set in motion | set on foot | set up | shake | ship | shoot | skim | skinny-dip | sled | sledge | slip | sluice | soar | spire | start | start going | start off | start up | submerge | surfboard | sustain | swamp | swim | swing | take off | transact | tread water | truck | turn on | undulate | upbear | uphold | uplift | upraise | usher in | van | wade | waft | wag | wagon | walk the waters | wash | wave | wheelbarrow | whelm | wield | wigwag | zoom

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Float In Webster's Dictionary

\Float\ (fl[=o]t), n.[OE. flote ship, boat, fleet, AS. flota ship, fr. fle['o]tan to float; akin to D. vloot fleet, G. floss raft, Icel. floti float, raft, fleet, Sw. flotta. [root] 84. See {Fleet}, v. i., and cf. {Flotilla}, {Flotsam}, {Plover}.] 1. Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something. Specifically: (a) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. (b) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. (c) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish. (d) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver. This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry. --J. P. Peters. 2. A float board. See {Float board} (below). 3. (Tempering) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. --Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. [Obs.] --Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.] --Mortimer. 6. (Plastering) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed. 7. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner. --Knight. 8. A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe. 9. A coal cart. [Eng.] --Simmonds. 10. The sea; a wave. See {Flote}, n. {Float board}, one of the boards fixed radially to the rim of an undershot water wheel or of a steamer's paddle wheel; -- a vane. {Float case} (Naut.), a caisson used for lifting a ship. {Float} {copper or gold} (Mining), fine particles of metallic copper or of gold suspended in water, and thus liable to be lost. {Float ore}, water-worn particles of ore; fragments of vein material found on the surface, away from the vein outcrop. --Raymond. {Float stone} (Arch.), a siliceous stone used to rub stonework or brickwork to a smooth surface. {Float valve}, a valve or cock acted upon by a float. See {Float}, 1 (b) .
\Float\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Floated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Floating}.] [OE. flotien, flotten, AS. flotian to float, swim, fr. fle['o]tan. See {Float}, n.] 1. To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up. The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground. --Milton. Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated. --Dryden. 2. To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air. They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind. --Pope. There seems a floating whisper on the hills. --Byron.
\Float\, v. t. 1. To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor. Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock. --Southey. 2. To flood; to overflow; to cover with water. Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands. --Dryden. 3. (Plastering) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet. 4. To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.

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