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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.