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Ido: ^{(please verify)} flotacar (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#FLOAT Category:Requests for review of Ido translations#FLOAT
Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} хөвөх (mn) (xövöx)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#FLOAT Category:Requests for review of Mongolian translations#FLOAT
Woiwurrung: yarragoonCategory:Terms with Woiwurrung translations#FLOAT

Etymology 2

Noun

A small plane on **floats** (buoyant devices).

a woven coverlet; the dark blue areas are long floats that cover multiple warp threads

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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.
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- 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40:
  'What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. 'Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'
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A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
A float board.
A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLOAT
An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
That float covered in roses is very pretty.
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A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
(British Category:British English#FLOAT) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
  As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm.
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(finance Category:en:Finance#FLOAT) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLOAT
(finance Category:en:Finance#FLOAT, Australia Category:Australian English#FLOAT, 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, “Buying shares in a float”, in Australian Securities and Investments Commission financial tips article‎, archived from the original on 16 July 2005:
  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.
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(banking Category:en:Banking#FLOAT) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLOAT
(insurance Category:en:Insurance#FLOAT) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLOAT
(programming Category:en:Programming#FLOAT) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLOAT
- 2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214:
  If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.
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A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice cream to be a "real" float.Category:English terms with usage examples#FLOAT
A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
(poker Category:en:Poker#FLOAT) 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.
(weaving Category:en:Weaving#FLOAT) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- 1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 82:
  I knew that a simple float on the surface of the Merino might catch if I made it big enough to show very much.
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- 1991, Carol Strickler, editor, A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, Interweave Press, →ISBN, pages 140-141:
  The appearance of a waffle fabric changes drastically with washing. Yarns differ, but most relax and twist and curl in the long floats when washed; the severe rectilinear design of the waffle cells in unwashed waffle weave fabric will soften dramatically.
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(knitting Category:en:Knitting#FLOAT) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
(basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.
- 1991, Rachel Nash Law, Cynthia Wieboldt Taylor, Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket, page xii:
  Rod Basket with Serpentine Floats
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(automotive Category:en:Automotive#FLOAT) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
(transport Category:en:Transport#FLOAT) A lowboy trailer.
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#FLOAT) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
  Hee being now in Float for Treasure.
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A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- 1863 April 24, “Trade News”, in The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume 10, page 324:
  The machinery consists of two saws, a polishing table, a float for grinding marble, and a ripping saw for cutting slabs.
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- 1925, Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports, page 557:
  Float Machinist— One who squares up, faces, noses or chamfers on a float all marble, slate, or similar stones, and including terrazzo or similar compositions.
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- 1980, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 215:
  Next , finishers rub a float — a small and smooth, rectangular piece of wood — over the entire surface, carefully avoiding edges and joints.
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- 2015, M. Clara Gonçalves, Fernanda Margarido, Materials for Construction and Civil Engineering, page 102:
  Floated: Obtained by successive passages with a wooden float on the coat's surface until it is flat and uniform
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(UK Category:British English#FLOAT, dated Category:English dated terms#FLOAT) A coal cart.^[1]
A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
(computing Category:en:Computing#FLOAT) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- 2004, Eric A. Meyer, More Eric Meyer on CSS, page 36:
  Because margin floats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between two floats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels […]
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- 2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 93:
  When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content.
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(biology Category:en:Biology#FLOAT) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
(publishing Category:en:Publishing#FLOAT, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.