Definition of float Float

/flowˈt/ - [flowt] - float

We found 74 definitions of float from 8 different sources.

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What does float mean?

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Noun

Plural: floats

float - something that floats on the surface of water
  artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole
  bobber, bobfloat, cork, bob the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
  chip the act of chipping something
  flotation device, life preserver, preserver rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
  pontoon a float supporting a seaplane
float - a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
  plasterer's float
float - an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
float - the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
float - the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
float - a drink with ice cream floating in it
  ice-cream soda, ice-cream float
  drink the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"
float - an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
  air bladder, swim bladder

Verb

floats, floating, floated  

float - be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
  swim
  go under, go down, sink, settle be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
  float convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
  float convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
  locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
  buoy mark with a buoy
float - set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
  transport move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
  tide be carried with the tide
  drift be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
  refloat set afloat again; "refloat a grounded boat"
  swim, float move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"
float - 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"
  drift, be adrift, blow
  locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
  waft be driven or carried along, as by the air; "Sounds wafted into the room"
  tide be carried with the tide
  drift be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
  stream exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood"
float - put into the water; "float a ship"
  float convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
  launch smoothen the surface of; "launch plaster"
float - move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage"
  locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
  swim, float move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"
  ride copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow"
float - make the surface of level or smooth; "float the plaster"
  smooth, smoothen make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood"
  masonry the craft of a mason
float - convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
  change over, convert change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid"
float - allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
  value fix or determine the value of; assign a value to; "value the jewelry and art work in the estate"
float - circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
  essay, try out, examine, test, prove, try question closely
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • float (Noun)
    A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
  • float (Noun)
    A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
  • float (Noun)
    A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces.
  • float (Noun)
    An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
  • float (Noun)
    A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float .
  • float (Noun)
    Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
  • float (Noun)
    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 .
  • float (Noun)
    The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
  • float (Noun)
    Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
  • float (Noun)
    A floating-point number .
  • float (Noun)
    A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
  • float (Noun)
    A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
  • float (Noun)
    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 .
  • float (Noun)
    One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
  • float (Noun)
    A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
  • float (Noun)
    A lowboy trailer.
  • float (Verb)
    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.
  • float (Verb)
    To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density; as, to float a boat.
  • float (Verb)
    To be capable of floating.
  • float (Verb)
    To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
  • float (Verb)
    To drift or wander aimlessly.
  • float (Verb)
    To drift gently through the air.
  • float (Verb)
    To move in a fluid manner.
  • float (Verb)
    To propose an idea for consideration.
  • float (Verb)
    To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
  • float (Verb)
    Of currencies To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.
  • float (Verb)
    To allow the exchange value of a currency to be determined by the markets.
  • float (Verb)
    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 .
  • float (Verb)
    To use a float tool.
  • float (Verb)
    To perform a float.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • float (v. i.)
    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.
  • float (v. i.)
    A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
  • float (v. i.)
    The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
  • float (v. i.)
    The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
  • float (v. i.)
    Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
  • float (v. i.)
    A float board. See Float board (below).
  • float (v. i.)
    A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
  • float (v. i.)
    The act of flowing; flux; flow.
  • float (v. i.)
    A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
  • float (v. i.)
    The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
  • float (v. i.)
    A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
  • float (v. i.)
    A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
  • float (v. i.)
    A coal cart.
  • float (v. i.)
    The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
  • float (n.)
    To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
  • float (n.)
    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.
  • float (v. t.)
    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.
  • float (v. t.)
    To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
  • float (v. t.)
    To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
  • float (v. t.)
    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.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • float
    To be held up or supported by a liquid (due to the liquid being of greater density than the object) so that some or all of it is above the liquid's surface.
  • float
    A buoyant, usually rectangular device used by children to help them to float or swim.
  • float
    A set of different coins and notes (borrowed from the bank) to use as change at a stall or shop.
  • float
    To move or run smoothly and continously as a fluid.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • float
    flōt, v.i. to swim on a liquid: to be buoyed up: to move lightly and irregularly: to circulate, as a rumour: to drift about aimlessly.—v.t. to cause to swim: to cover with water: to set agoing.—n. anything swimming on water: a raft: the cork or quill on a fishing-line: a plasterer's trowel.—adj. Float′able.—ns. Float′age, Flot′age, the floating capacity of a thing: anything that floats; Float′-board, a board on the rim of an undershot water-wheel on which the water acts and moves the wheel; Float′er.—adj. Float′ing, swimming: not fixed: circulating.—n. action of the verb float: the spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.—ns. Float′ing-batt′ery, a vessel or hulk heavily armed, used in the defence of harbours or in attacks on marine fortresses; Float′ing-bridge, a bridge of rafts or beams of timber lying on the surface of the water; Float′ing-dock (see Dock); Float′ing-is′land, an aggregation of driftwood, roots, &c., capable of bearing soil, floated out from a river delta or the like; Float′ing-light, a ship, bearing a light, moored on sunken rocks, to warn seamen of danger.—adv. Float′ingly.—n. Float′-stone, a porous, sponge-like variety of quartz, so light as to float for a while on water.—adj. Float′y. [A.S. flotian, to float; Ice. flota.]

Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️

  • float
    a raft, or quantity of timber fastened together across, to be wafted along a river with the tide or current.

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

  • float
    [Anglo-Saxon fleot or fleet]. A place where vessels float, as at Northfleet. Also, the inner part of a ship-canal. In wet-docks ships are kept afloat while loading and discharging cargo. Two double gates, having a lock between them, allow the entry and departure of vessels without disturbing the inner level. Also, a raft or quantity of timber fastened together, to be floated along a river by a tide or current.

Part of speech

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  • float, verb, present, 1st person singular of float (infinitive).
  • float, verb (infinitive).
  • float, noun, singular of floats.

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