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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Float
(v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing |
Float
(v. i.) A coal cart. |
Float
(v. i.) The sea |
Floating
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float |
Float
(n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid |
Float
(n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft |
Float
(v. t.) To cause to float |
Float
(v. t.) To flood |
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. |
Floating
(a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid |
Floating
(a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment |
Floating
(a.) Not funded |
Floating
(n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. |
Floating
(n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering. |
Pack thread
() See under 2d Pack. |
Thread
(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length |
Thread
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark |
Thread
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut |
Thread
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor |
Thread
(n.) Fig.: Composition |
Thread
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of |
Thread
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way |
Thread
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in |
Thread-shaped
(a.) Having the form of a thread |
floating
natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
dead-man's float
prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
air bladder
swim bladder
float | an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy |
threadfish
thread-fish
Alectis ciliaris | fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins |
| float | something that floats on the surface of water |
| float plasterer's float | a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco |
| float | an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade |
floating dock
floating dry dock | dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised |
floating mine
marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
life raft
Carling float | a raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency |
lisle
lisle thread | a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton) |
| milk float | a van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to houses |
pontoon bridge
bateau bridge
floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
screw thread
thread | the raised helical rib going around a screw |
thread
yarn | a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving |
train of thought
thread | the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together, I couldn't follow his train of thought, he lost the thread of his argument |
floater
floating policy | an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location |
floating-point notation
floating-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix, in the floating-point representation system, . is represented as .- where - is the exponent |
iceream soda
iceream float
float | a drink with ice cream floating in it |
| root beer float | an iceream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer |
ribbon
thread | any long object resembling a thin line, a mere ribbon of land, the lighted ribbon of traffic, from the air the road was a grey thread, a thread of smoke climbed upward |
spinner
spinster thread maker | someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) |
swing voter
floating voter | a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other |
goldthread
golden thread
Coptis groenlandica
Coptis trifolia groenlandica | low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers |
Adam's needle
Adam's needle-and-thread
spoonleaf yucca
needle palm
Yucca filamentosa | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |
floating-moss
Salvinia rotundifolia
Salvinia auriculata | free-floating aquatic ferns |
mosquito fern
floating fern
Carolina pond fern
Azolla caroliniana | small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America, naturalized in western and southern Europe |
floating fern water sprite
Ceratopteris pteridioides | aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums |
| floating fern Ceratopteris thalictroides | pantropical aquatic fern |
| float | the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public |
floating-point operation
flop | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers, this computer can perform a million flops per second |
| floating-point number | a number represented in floating-point notation |
megaflop
MFLOP
million floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
teraflop
trillion floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
| thread blight | a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus) |
| float | the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment |
| float | convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation, float data |
| float | allow (currencies) to fluctuate, The government floated the ruble for a few months |
| string thread draw e | thread on or as if on a string, string pearls on a string, the child drew glass beads on a string, thread dried cranberries |
| thread | pass through or into, thread tape, thread film |
| thread | remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string, She had her eyebrows threaded |
| float | make the surface of level or smooth, float the plaster |
| float | put into the water, float a ship |
| thread | pass a thread through, thread a needle |
| float | move lightly, as if suspended, The dancer floated across the stage |
| float | set afloat, He floated the logs down the river, The boy floated his toy boat on the pond |
weave
wind
thread
meander
wander | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course, the river winds through the hills, the path meanders through the vineyards, sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body |
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 |
| float swim | be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom |
| float | circulate or discuss tentatively, test the waters with, The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform |