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float
  1. A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
  2. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
  3. A float board.
  4. A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
  5. A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
  6. An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
  7. (Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
  8. (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
  9. (finance, Australia, 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.
  10. (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
  11. (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
  12. (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
  13. A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
  14. A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
  15. (poker) 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.
  16. (knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
  17. (automotive) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination
  18. (transport) a lowboy trailer
  19. (tempering) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.
  20. (obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
  21. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
  22. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
  23. (Britain, dated) A coal cart.
  24. A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
  25. (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
  26. Synonyms:
  27. Examples:
    1. “Pittston had nothing to do with the cargo on the float prior to the time it was placed on the dock.”
      “The company will ask new investors to pay 11-times forecast profit for shares in the company's initial float.”
floater
  1. Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.
  2. An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
  3. A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
  4. An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
  5. (insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
  6. (police) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
  7. (sports) An unaffiliated player.
  8. (surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
  9. (vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
  10. (slang, by extension) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” that person.
  11. (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
  12. (Australia) A pie floater.
  13. (politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
  14. (politics) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
  15. (politics) One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
  16. (India) A sandal.
  17. A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
  18. Synonyms:
  19. Examples:
    1. “A floater was present in each classroom during the administration of the questionnaires to answer individual questions.”
      “After assembled, the floater body and counterweight member being sinkable, sink in water.”
      “He produced a set of keys attached to a large red floater then placed a cordless phone on the counter.”
flotation
  1. A state of floating, or being afloat.
  2. The ability (as of a tire or snowshoes) to stay on the surface of soft ground or snow.
  3. (mining) A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.
  4. (Britain, finance) The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The flotation of the new research facility marked an exciting and promising beginning for scientific exploration in the field.”
      “The co-op also changes the RoGator's tires from flotation tires to radials as row crops grow.”
      “Paradise Australian-style is miles of pristine sand, whipbirds at dawn and a flotation tank just across the road.”
floaty
  1. (informal) A lilo or similar item that floats on water and can be sat on.
  2. (informal) A particle of food, etc. found floating in liquid.
  3. Synonyms:
flotage
  1. The state of floating.
  2. That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The trees grow in salt water several feet deep, where their labyrinth of roots and branches collect and hold sediment and flotage.”
flotsam
  1. Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The hideous roses were flotsam and she was cast away on a tide of detritus.”
      “Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck.”
      “Memories were surfacing in his mind, like flotsam from a shipwreck, drawn upwards from the deep.”
floatie
  1. Alternative form of floaty (item that floats in water and can be sat on)
floatation
  1. Alternative spelling of flotation
  2. Examples:
    1. “Then I catch glimpses of a diver two feet in front of me tying a huge yellow floatation bag onto a sunken landing craft.”
      “The nice thing about kapok is that you can refluff it every once in a while to keep its original floatation.”
      “Many large kelps use gas-filled floatation bladders to keep their large blades near the surface, and therefore in the light.”
floatability
floatage
  1. Alternative form of flotage
  2. Examples:
    1. “Boil the butter, and add to it a small quantity of sugar and salt, and skim off floatage.”
floatsome
  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of flotsam
floatiness
flotson
  1. Dated form of flotsam.
floating
floatable
  1. (plural) Anything that floats.
floaties
floatabilities
floatations
  1. plural of floatation
flotations
floatables
  1. plural of floatable
floatages
  1. plural of floatage
floatings
floaters
  1. plural of floater
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The most intensive water use is with hair conditioner being a principal component of the floaters.”
      “Oh and before I forget, I hate people that leave floaters in the toilet and bad stenches.”
      “Because the movement of floaters is not restricted, local population size is effectively not limited.”
flotages
  1. plural of flotage
flotsons
  1. plural of flotson
flotsams
floats
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