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Definitions of 'Float' Wordnet 

1. (noun) float
the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

2. (noun) float
the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

3. (noun) ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, float
a drink with ice cream floating in it

4. (noun) float
an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade

5. (noun) float, plasterer's float
a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

6. (noun) float
something that floats on the surface of water

7. (verb) air bladder, swim bladder, float
an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

8. (verb) float, drift, be adrift, blow
be in motion due to some air or water current
"The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

9. (verb) float, swim
be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

10. (verb) float
set afloat
"He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

11. (verb) float
circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
"The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"

12. (verb) float
move lightly, as if suspended
"The dancer floated across the stage"

13. (verb) float
put into the water
"float a ship"

14. (verb) float
make the surface of level or smooth
"float the plaster"

15. (verb) float
allow (currencies) to fluctuate
"The government floated the ruble for a few months"

16. (verb) float
convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
"float data"


Definitions of 'Float' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (noun) Float
to rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up

2. (noun) Float
to move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air

3. (verb) Float
anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something

4. (verb) Float
a mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft

5. (verb) Float
the hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler

6. (verb) Float
the cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish

7. (verb) Float
anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver

8. (verb) Float
a float board. See Float board (below)

9. (verb) Float
a contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die

10. (verb) Float
the act of flowing; flux; flow

11. (verb) Float
a quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep

12. (verb) Float
the trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed

13. (verb) Float
a polishing block used in marble working; a runner

14. (verb) Float
a single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe

15. (verb) Float
a coal cart

16. (verb) Float
the sea; a wave. See Flote, n

17. (verb) Float
to cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor

18. (verb) Float
to flood; to overflow; to cover with water

19. (verb) Float
to pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet

20. (verb) Float
to support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation


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