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Etymology
Old English flotian (“‘to float’”), from Proto-Germanic
*flutojanan. Compare Old Norse flota, Icelandic fljóta and Mittle Dutch vloten.
Noun
float
(plural floats)
- A buoyant device used to
support something in water or another liquid.
- Attach the float and the weight to the
fishing line, above the hook.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used
in various trades
- A sort of trowel used for
finishing concrete
surfaces.
- When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a
float.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for
display in a parade or pageant.
- That float covered in roses is very
pretty.
- (British) A
small battery-powered vehicle used for local deliveries, especially
in the term milk
float.
- (finance) Funds
committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the
float so we stay within our reserves
limit.
- (finance,
Australian, 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.
- 2006, You don't actually need a broker to
buy shares in a float when a company is about to
be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. — Australian
Securities and Investments Commission financial tips article,
Buying shares in a float [1]
- (banking) The
total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a
bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- No sir, your current float is not taken
into account, when assets are legally garnished.
- (insurance)
Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- We make a lot of interest from our nightly
float.
- (programming) Short
form of floating-point number.
- That routine should not have used an int; it should be a
float.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream floating in it.
- It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer
with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real"
float.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till
at the start of business to enable change to be made.
Synonyms
Shares offered to the public:
Derived
terms
Translations
buoyant device used to support
something in liquid
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- Japanese: 浮き (uki), 浮揚物 (fuyoubutsu)
- Lithuanian: plaustas m. raft, plūdė
f. of an angle or a
net
- Russian: плот (plot) m. raft, поплавок
(poplavók) m. of an angle or a
net
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trailer in parade
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- Russian: платформа ru(ru) (platfórma) f.
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funds committed to be paid but
not yet paid
banking: total amount of
checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank
insurance: premiums taken in but
not yet paid out
programming: short form of
floating-point number
soft beverage with a scoop of
vanilla ice-cream floating in it
Verb
to float
(third-person singular simple present floats,
present participle floating,
simple past and past participle floated)
- (intransitive) 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.
- The boat floated on the water.
- The oil floated on the vinegar.
- (intransitive) To be
capable of floating.
- That boat doesn't float.
- Oil floats on vinegar.
- (intransitive) To
drift gently through the air.
- The balloon floated off into the
distance.
- (intransitive) To
drift or wander aimlessly.
- I'm not sure where they went... they're
floating around here somewhere.
- Images from my childhood floated through
my mind.
- (intransitive) To
move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is
floating
- I'd love to just float
downstream.
- (intransitive) To
move in a fluid manner.
- The dancer floated gracefully around the
stage.
- (intransitive) To
automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- (intransitive, finance) (of
currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as
opposed to by rule.
- The yen floats against the
dollar.
- (intransitive) (colloquial) (of an
idea or scheme) To be viable.
- That's a daft idea... it'll never
float.
- (transitive) To
cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density; as,
to float a boat.
- (transitive) To
propose (an idea) for consideration.
- I floated the idea of free ice-cream on
Fridays, but no one was interested.
- (transitive) To
extend a short-term loan to.
- Could you float me $50 until
payday?
- (transitive,
finance) To allow (the exchange value
of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- The government floated the pound in
January.
- Increased pressure on Thailand's currency, the baht, in
1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to
float the currency.
- (transitive,
finance, Australian, and
other Commonwealth countries?) 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.
- 2005, He floated the
company on the Milan Stock Exchange last December and sold 29 per
cent of its shares, mostly to American investors. — article by
Dewi Cooke, The Age newspaper, 21 June 2005 (about
Mario Moretti Polegato) [2]
- (transitive) To use
a float (tool).
- It is time to float this horse's teeth.
Translations
be capable of floating
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- Japanese: 浮かぶ (ukabu), 浮く (uku)
- Lithuanian: plūduriuoti (impf.); plaukti (impf.)
- Russian: держаться на воде (d'eržát's'a na vod'é)
- Spanish: flotar es(es)
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drift gently through the
air
move in a particular direction
with the liquid in which one is floating
automatically adjust a parameter
as related parameters change
allow a price to be determined by
the markets as opposed to by rule
cause to be suspended
propose for consideration
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- German: begeben de(de)
- Japanese: 浮かぶ (ukabu)
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extend a short-term loan to
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted
above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any
numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See
instructions at Help:How to check translations.
- Ido: flotacar
- Mongolian: хөвөх (hövöh)
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