| float | Origin: OE. Flote ship, boat, fleet, AS. Flota ship, fr. Fleotan to float; akin to D. Vloot fleet, G. Floss raft, Icel. Floti float, raft, fleet, Sw. Flotta. See Fleet, and cf. Flotilla, Flotsam, Plover. 1. 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. Specifically: A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish. Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver. "This reform bill . . . Had been used as a float by the conservative ministry." (J. P. Peters) 2. A float board. See Float board (below). 3. A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. 6. The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed. 7. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner. 8. A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe. 9. A coal cart. 10. The sea; a wave. See Flote, Float board, one of the boards fixed radially to the rim of an undershot water wheel or of a steamer's paddle wheel; a vane. Float case, a siliceous stone used to rub stonework or brickwork to a smooth surface. Float valve, a valve or cock acted upon by a float. See Float, 1 (b). 1. 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. "Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock." (Southey) 2. To flood; to overflow; to cover with water. "Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands." (Dryden) 3. To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet. 4. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| floater | <ophthalmology> One or more spots that appear to drift in front of the eye, caused by a shadow cast on the retina by vitreous debris or separation of the vitreous humour from the retina. (27 Sep 1997) |
| floating | 1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. "Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. <medicine>" (Macaulay) Floating anchor See Dock. Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. <botany> Floating heart, threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| floating cartilage | A loose piece of cartilage within a joint cavity, detached from the articular cartilage or from a meniscus. Synonym: loose cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floating kidney | The abnormally mobile kidney in nephroptosia. Synonym: movable kidney, wandering kidney. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floating organ | An organ with loose attachments, permitting its displacement. Synonym: floating organ, ptotic organ. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floating patella | A patella riding high on effusion of the knee. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floating ribs | The two lower ribs on either side that are not attached anteriorly. Synonym: costae fluitantes, costae fluctuantes, vertebral ribs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floating spleen | A spleen that is palpable because of excessive mobility from a relaxed or lengthened pedicle rather than because of enlargement. Synonym: lien mobilis, movable spleen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floating villus | A chorionic villus that is not attached to the decidua basalis, but is "free" in the maternal blood of the intervillous spaces. Synonym: floating villus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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musca volitans: spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) vagrant: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election a swimmer who floats in the water an object that floats or is capable of floating an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
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aimless: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game" floating(a): (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position; "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum"; "a floating kidney" floating(a): not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters" the act of someone who floats on the water borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
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Drifting dark spots within the field of vision. Floaters can be caused by infection with CMV retinitis, but also can appear in people as a normal part of the aging process.
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or boat mill- a large diameter undershot water wheel with its gears and machinery inside of a boat and the outboard bearing mounted on pontoon. Also known as an Hungarian Mill. Fore bay- a deep receptacle at the end of a mill race, which water is led into the water wheel or turbine. A reservior or extension of a sluice or mill race. It is where water is passed to the water wheel. ...
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| float | something that remains on the surface of a liquid |
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| float | a drink with ice cream floating in it |
| 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 | convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation |
| float | allow (currencies) to fluctuate |
| float | put into the water |
| float | move lightly, as if suspended |
| float | set afloat |
| float | be in motion due to some air or water current |
| float | be afloat |
| float | circulate or discuss tentatively |
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