Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FLOAT

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Definitions of FLOAT

1. A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
2. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
3. A float board.
4. A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
5. A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
6. An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
7. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
8. A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
9. A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
10. A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
11. (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
12. (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
13. (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
14. (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
15. (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
16. (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
17. (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
18. (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
19. (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
20. (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
21. (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
22. (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
23. (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
24. (poker) To perform a float.
25. (computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
26. (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
27. (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
28. (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
29. (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
30. (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
31. (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
32. (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
33. (automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
34. (transport) A lowboy trailer.
35. (obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
36. (UK, dated) A coal cart.
37. (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
38. (biology) The gas-filled sac, bag or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
39. (publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
40. (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
41. (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
42. (intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
43. (intransitive, colloquial) Of an idea or scheme, to be viable.
44. (intransitive)To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
45. To not be tied to a reference.
46. (transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
47. A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
48. (weaving) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
49. (knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
50. (basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.

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Examples of Using FLOAT in a Sentence

• Both marine and freshwater forms include those with staminate flowers that detach from the parent plant and float to the surface.
• Roads are primarily paved by a coral/oil mixture that, when it gets wet, tends to have oil float to the surface, making the roads dangerous.
• 873 billion by gross domestic product as of 2019, and has been working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to implement macroeconomic reforms, including a managed float of the exchange rate.
• Special equipment for water polo includes a water polo ball, a ball of varying colors which floats on the water; numbered and coloured caps; and two goals, which either float in the water or are attached to the sides of the pool.
• During takeoff, ground effect can cause the aircraft to "float" while below the recommended climb speed.
• They can use the silk to suspend themselves from height, to float through the air, or to glide away from predators.
• Regular scheduled and charter float planes provide service to many of the island's coastal communities, including Coffman Cove.
• They made it possible to float logs out to Lake Superior and built a sawmill on an island near the mouth of the Ontonagon River in Ontonagon, Michigan.
• During the following twenty years, the city of Manistee grew as virgin forests were cut, and the logs put into the Manistee rivers to float to the mills on Manistee Lake.
• Ponca State Park is the eastern terminus for float trips through the federally designated National Wild and Scenic River.
• The event attracts thousands of onlookers each year, to partake in the selection of goods offered at rented booths and/or to watch the ducks leisurely float down the river.
• In 2019 NSG began construction of a float glass plant just outside Luckey for First Solar in Toledo, the first new glass plant in the USA since 1980.
• Begun as a birthday celebration between a local group of young men in 1978, the event consists of entrants buying or building water crafts and floating down the Chehalis River from Pe Ell to Rainbow Falls State Park, where riders can float over a slight waterfall that still remains despite severe flooding damage due to the Great Coastal Gale of 2007.
• Lightvessels in Ireland describes any lightvessel or light float previously stationed off the coast of Ireland.
• As of 2024, 33 of these festivals have been registered as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists as "Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan".
• The system used identical water-filled containers whose drain could be turned on and off, and a float with a rod marked with various predetermined codes that represented military messages.
• It is a silvery metal It also is less dense than water, and can, in principle, float (although it will react with any water it is exposed to).
• Traditional or primitive rafts were constructed of wood, bamboo or reeds; early buoyed or float rafts use inflated animal skins or sealed clay pots which are lashed together.
• The force chased off the crew of Caroline, towed the vessel into the currents of the Niagara River and set her on fire before casting the ship adrift; Caroline proceeded to float over the Niagara Falls and was destroyed.
• Type systems formalize and enforce the otherwise implicit categories the programmer uses for algebraic data types, data structures, or other data types, such as "string", "array of float", "function returning boolean".

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