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Float

verb

(past & past part. floated; pres. part. floating)

1.

Be in motion due to some air or water current. Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift. "The boat drifted on the lake" , "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" , "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

2.

Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom. Synonym: swim.

3.

Set afloat. "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

4.

Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with.

5.

Move lightly, as if suspended.

6.

Put into the water.

7.

Make the surface of level or smooth.

8.

Allow (currencies) to fluctuate.

9.

Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation.

noun

1.

The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment.

2.

The number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public.

3.

A drink with ice cream floating in it. Synonyms: ice-cream float, ice-cream soda.

4.

An elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade.

5.

A hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco. Synonym: plasterer's float.

6.

Something that floats on the surface of water.

7.

An air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy. Synonyms: air bladder, swim bladder.

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"Float" Quotes from Famous Books

... was dressed in light-coloured clothes that moved jest a little in the breeze, and the clothes was so near the colour of the moonlight they seemed to kind of silver into it. You would of said it had jest floated there, and was waiting fur to float away agin when the breeze blowed a little stronger, or the moon ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... was rather difficult, for she kept continually bobbing up and down, like a boy's cork-float in ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

... fortune favoured the brave, and the boat slid into the deep shadow of the old landing-stage, and Chippy was still undiscovered. No sooner did they enter the friendly dusk than Chippy released the painter, and let himself float without movement. The boat pulled on a dozen yards to the stairs, and the scout swam gently to the shelter of a great pile. Chippy now heard the rower fling down the oars and spring out of the boat, and rush ...

— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore

... be told what the object was in launching the gig. Fortunately there had been a spare pair of oars in the craft when she came ashore, the big blades being fastened so they could not float away. With these the captain and Tim began to propel the boat toward the sinking craft in which were Mr. Carr and Ned Scudd. The two latter were bailing so fast that they had no chance to row. Bob also went in the gig, but Mr. Tarbill remained on shore, nervously running ...

— Bob the Castaway • Frank V. Webster

... awe-inspiring Bromo, always faced by the longer side of the windowless communal houses, built to contain the several generations of the families which in patriarchal fashion inhabit these spacious dwellings. Huge clouds of smoke from the majestic volcano curl perpetually above the surrounding peaks, and float slowly westward, the thunderous roar of the colossal crater echoing in eternal menace through the rarefied air, and regarded as the voice of the god who inhabits the fiery Inferno. These lonely hills, ravaged by tempest and haunted by beasts of prey, are the hiding-places of ...

— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings

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