Word Finder - floats

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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.

The bitumen which floats to shore is also collected.

There, amid a cluster of floats, Boy Scouts and ballerinas, four of Fred's lady friends were in the final stages of hanging bunting about a beautiful old touring car whose vintage or name Dean couldn't identify.

My good house floats like a cloud; its name too is a favorable omen.

The method of using these liquids is in all cases the same; a particle is dropped in; if it floats a diluent is added and the mixture well stirred.

From what you say the odds are high it's only a matter of time until his brother floats in.

It " floats " between the prosomatic nerve centres and the alimentary canal.

By successive trials two beads, of known density, say di, d 2, are obtained, one of which floats above, and the other below, the test crystal; the distances separating the beads from the crystal are determined by means of a scale placed behind the tube.

Without the extra 5 grammes the instrument weighs about 20 grammes, and therefore floats in a liquid of specific gravity 8.

Daily park parades often include a touch of the holiday spirit as well, as they will add Santa into the parade and have floats enhanced with holiday decorations.

Imagine me giving Cindy Byrne a call and telling her she's cut off, at least until ol' Jeff floats in?

The larva has a breathing-tube, and floats head downwards; when disturbed it wriggles to the bottom (Christy).

When a body floats in a fluid under the action of gravity, the weight of the body is equal to that of the fluid which it displaces.

The volume of each weight being the same, the whole volume immersed is always the same when it floats at the same mark whatever weight may be attached.

The card nearly floats in a bowl filled with distilled water, to which 35% of alcohol is added to prevent freezing; the bowl is hermetically sealed with pure india-rubber, and a corrugated expansion chamber is attached to the bottom to allow for the expansion and contraction of the liquid.

In 1248 Hugo de Bercy notes a change in the construction of compasses, which are now supported on two floats in a glass cup. From quotations given by Antonio Capmany (Questiones Criticas) from the De contemplatione of Raimon Lull, of the date 1272, it appears that the latter was well acquainted with the use of 1 Adamas in India reperitur.

Of these the first escapes immediately as a gas, and the others unite with iron oxide, lime, or other strong base present to form a molten silicate or silica-phosphate called " cinder " or " slag," which floats on the molten or pasty metal.

The plasterers floats (98) were entirely cut out of wood.

It lies at the mouth and on the eastern shore of Christiania fjord, occupying both banks of the great river Glommen, which, descending from the richly-wooded district of Osterdal, floats down vast quantities of timber.

Pottery is made in almost every village, from the small vessels required in cooking to the large jars used for storing grain and occasionally as floats to ferry persons across a swollen stream.

P. ponderosa, the yellow pine of the Pacific coast of America, belongs to this section; it is a fine timber tree deserving of notice from the extreme density of its wood, which barely floats in water; it abounds in some parts of the western range of the Rocky Mountains, and is the most widely distributed pine tree of the mountain forests of western North America.

Such floats, however, should always be made so that the section taken at the level of the water is as small as possible.

The ocean of water buoys or floats the ship, and the ocean of air, or part of it in motion, swells the sails which propel the ship. The moving air, which strikes the sails directly, strikes.

It resembles the ship in floating upon the air, as the ship a floats upon the water; in other words, the balloon is lighter than the air, as the ship is lighter than the water.

The balloon floats because it is lighter than the air; the flying creature floats because it extracts from the air, by the vigorous downward action of its wings, a certain amount of upward recoil.

Logs and clumsy floats of bark and grass enabled them to cross water under favourable circumstances.

The sheaths are much dilated in Alopecurus vaginatus and in a species of Potamochloa, in the latter, an East Indian aquatic grass, serving as floats.

Her milk is abundant and rich, and during the operation of suckling, the mother floats in a slightly sidelong position, so as to allow of the necessary respiration in herself and her young.

It feeds on small fish and on the animal refuse that floats on the sea, eating to such excess at times that it is unable to fly and rests helplessly on the water.

The produce of the second barking is still so coarse in texture that it is only fit for making floats for nets and for similar applications.

The order contains about fifty species in fifteen genera, twelve of which occur in fresh water while three are marine; and includes both floating and submerged forms. Hydrocharis floats on the surface of still water, and has rosettes of kidney-shaped leaves, from among which spring the flower-stalks; stolons bearing new leafrosettes are sent out on all sides, the plant thus propagating itself in the same way as the strawberry.

Each of the floats in the parade had several pennants from the local high school tacked on the side of the float.

The lecherous bastard didn't waste any time getting Byrne off the payroll and now he's trying to hus­tle his wife before the body even floats in.

The holiday culminates in a grand procession with many amusing floats on topical themes.

The net floats above the wreck somewhat on buoys, but is tight and so fairly safe.

Some people even go so far as to have cosmetic dentistry to get fangs - but then whatever floats your boat!

There's an Olympic pool, lakeside diving boards, inflatable water climbing floats, table tennis and fast flume.

Fishing light floats and feeding hemp, the pair fished double maggot on the hook and had bream to over 6lb.

School floats can only be replenished by the completion of a petty cash imprest request and a petty cash reimbursement form.

Swimming pool Parties Aqua Run Party This is a private pool booking with a selection of floats and a pool inflatable.

On the evening of the 14th, there were five floats, decorated with hundreds of lighted lanterns (right screen ).

Central to the design scheme is a new mezzanine that now floats within the existing central atrium.

A woman mutters something about permanence and my head floats several inches from where it should be.

Below, floats, markers and exploded ordnance decorate the wall of one of the cottages.

For internal plastering a combination of wood and sponge floats and a plasterers trowel can be used to create a smooth polished finish.

Stick floats, Avons and crow quills need to be dusted down and even bodied wagglers too.

There are infinitely more reals than floats, so some corners must be cut.

During the period, we were appointed registrar for two of the largest floats, being Northumbrian Water and Benfield.

They were both young and were using little telescopic rods with little floats.

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Actually he leaves most things to Mom and now the word lazy floats up to me as her voice grows more shrill.