Word Finder - float

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A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

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Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.

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A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

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A float board.

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A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.

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A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.

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When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.

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An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.

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That float covered in roses is very pretty.

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A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.

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Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.

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Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.

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(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.

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The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.

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No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.

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Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.

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We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.

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A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.

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That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.

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A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.

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It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float.

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A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.

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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.

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One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.

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A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination

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A lowboy trailer

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(tempering) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.

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The act of flowing; flux; flow.

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A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.

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A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

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A coal cart.

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A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.

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A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.

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Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface.

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The boat floated on the water.

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To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.

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to float a boat

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To be capable of floating.

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Oil floats on vinegar.

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To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating

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I’d love to just float downstream.

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To drift or wander aimlessly.

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Images from my childhood floated through my mind.

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To drift gently through the air.

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The balloon floated off into the distance.

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To move in a fluid manner.

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The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.

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To circulate.

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There's a rumour floating around the office that Jan is pregnant.

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(of an idea or scheme) To be viable.

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That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float.

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To propose (an idea) for consideration.

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I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.

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To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.

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(of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.

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The yen floats against the dollar.

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To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.

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Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.

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To extend a short-term loan to.

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Could you float me $50 until payday?

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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.

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2007, Jonathan Reuvid, Floating Your Company: The Essential Guide to Going Public.

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To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.

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To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.

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It is time to float this horse's teeth.

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To transport by float (vehicular trailer).

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To perform a float.

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To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.

I am not afraid to float now.

Her head felt like it could float off her body.

In fact, he must be struggling to float on the ocean of problems this family represented.

Just seems to float from job to job.

Like Jackson, she moved with incredible grace, seeming to float rather than walk.

He added, but I haven't seen any body float up either.

Above him was a clear blue sky, and the sun's vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist.

He's got a float and a slew of balloons!

He watched his expelled breath float away from him, his calm features hiding the anger in his blood.

Give him a week and he'll float in somewhere down south of here if the fish don't eat him first.

The railway ultimately was made to float on the bog.

It was like everything else in his life—don't make a decision, just float along and see what happens.

These icebergs float away, and are gradually melted in the sea, the temperature of which is thus lowered by cold stored up in the interior of Greenland.

Some species of Dolomedes, indeed, habitually construct a raft by spinning dead leaves together and float over the water upon it watching for an opportunity to dash upon any insect that alights upon its surface.

The first thing you will learn to do is float.

There was an office pool on how long it would be before Willie would float in.

Several forms of cells float freely in the fluid of the coelom.

If during this process part of the fronds run together, the beauty of the specimen may be restored by dipping the edge into water, so as to float out the part and allow it to subside naturally on the paper.

Many of the freshwater algae which form a mere crust, such as Palmella cruenta, may be placed in a vessel of water, where after a time they float like a scum, the earthy matter settling down to the bottom, and may then be mounted by slipping a piece of mica under them and allowing it to dry.

To this point soft bodies lighter than water (which would float if placed in the cup) could be attached, and thus completely immersed.

Colorful fish dart in and out, while sharks and stingrays float placidly by spectators.

This is effected by the so-called habit of "ballooning" practised by very young spiders, which float through the air, often at great altitudes, in the direction of the prevalent winds.

Certain substances, such as the precious metals, are quite insoluble in the bead, but float about in it.

Of the Characeae many are so exceedingly brittle that it is best to float them out like sea-weeds, except the prickly species, which may be carefully laid out on bibulous paper, and when dry fastened on sheets of white paper by means of gummed strips.

These form the " float gold " of the miner.

The weir is opened by joining the needles of each bay by a chain passed through the eyes at the top and a line of wire through the central rings, so that when released at the top by the tilting of the escape bar by the derrick, they float down as a raft, and are caught by a man in a boat, or, when the cur rent is strong, they are 'mopes ?o drawn to the bank by a rope attached to them previously to their release.

It is possible by applying a little oil to the upper part of the bulb of a common or of a Sikes's hydrometer, and carefully placing it in pure water, to cause it to float with the upper part of the bulb and the whole of the stem emerging as indicated in fig.

With hardly an exception the transparent eggs are laid into the sea and float on its surface.

From Aristotle we learn (I) that Thales found in water the origin of things; (2) that he conceived the earth to float upon a sea of the elemental fluid; (3) that he supposed all things to be full of gods; (4) that in virtue of the attraction exercised by the magnet he attributed to it a soul.

In leaves which float upon the surface of the water, as those of the water-lily stomata.

In aquatic plants the leafstalk is sometimes distended with air, as in Pontederia and Trapa, so as to float the leaf.

However, I also have a one inch piece of float tubing over the end of the whip to eliminate tangles.

The hollows would be filled with oil, and lighted tapers would float in them.

Their mournful wails float through the branches in the vein Edgar Allen Poe.

We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which float through the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

The cashier is required to count his or her float or bank of money at the beginning of a shift.

True to their roots, Crocs shades are also water friendly-they float!

The spongy material that the Frubi Shades are made of is designed to float.

The soft contact lenses contain some water amidst a special gel to "float" over the surface of the eye.

The extremely lightweight design of the Cocoons frames allows them to float comfortably over prescription glasses and you don't even feel like you are wearing two pairs of glasses.

Since colored contact lenses don't alter the vision of your pupil, they have no way of altering or "shading out" the shadowy shapes of the floaters that enter your vision as they float through your eye's vitreous.

Since floaters are pockets of gel that float across your vision (above your pupil), then clearly wearing colored contact lenses won't alter how you view those imperfections.

Mellow-out while you float down the lazy river.

The pool is open year-round and gives guests a place to swim laps or simply float in peace.

In 90 minutes, you will float past sights and sounds even many native San Franciscans have yet to see.

The suit itself is done in a muted yellow and features thin black straps with delicately embroidered bumble bees that appear to float gracefully over the fabric.

While men tend not to float as well as women, everyone can master these basic exercises in an initial lesson, creating a lot of confidence.

Dean began to float back to sleep, half content in the thought that the storm might wash out the steamy, unseasonable humidity.

If it sank up there, it'd most likely float up to the surface after a few days or a week and then drift back down this way with the tide.

The body, representing the hydranth of an ordinary hydroid, has the aboral portion modified into a float, from which hangs down a proboscis bearing the mouth.