Float

(noun.) something that floats on the surface of water.

(noun.) a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco.

(noun.) an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade.

(noun.) the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public.

(noun.) the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment.

(verb.) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; 'float data'.

(verb.) allow (currencies) to fluctuate; 'The government floated the ruble for a few months'.

(verb.) make the surface of level or smooth; 'float the plaster'.

(verb.) put into the water; 'float a ship'.

(verb.) move lightly, as if suspended; 'The dancer floated across the stage'.

(verb.) set afloat; 'He floated the logs down the river'; 'The boy floated his toy boat on the pond'.

(verb.) 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'.

(verb.) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.

(verb.) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; 'The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform'.

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• I urged my companions to prepare for the wreck of our little skiff, and to bind themselves to some oar or spar which might suffice to float them. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The red one in all probability cannot swim, I said, since there is scarce enough water in all their domains to float the tiniest craft. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Mrs. Hatch and her friends seemed to float together outside the bounds of time and space. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The water will soon float your feet to the surface. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I remember how I seemed to float, then, down the melancholy glory of that track upon the sea, away into the world of dreams. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• We see staid families, with prayer-book and beads, enter the gondola dressed in their Sunday best, and float away to church. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• These discoveries, added to the long observed fact of coal oil floating on streams in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, led to the search for its natural source. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Floating in deep blue space, it watched her unclouded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He sees some object that's in his way of business, floating. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But it was like a bubble floating in the darkness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The haggard head floated up the dark staircase, and softly descended nearer to the floor outside the outer door of the chambers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It floated up and produced a violent effect on the mucous membrane. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A long sigh floated past them on the still waters, like the melancholy cry of a bird, and died away sadly in the distance. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Patches of nasty ooze floated, yellow-white, on the dead surface of the water. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• A number of schemes had floated in men's minds for the attainment of that end. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Bishop then betook himself up-stairs, and the other magnates gradually floated up after him until there was no one left below but Mr Merdle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• On the placid waters of the landlocked harbor floated a great ship, and on the beach a small boat was drawn up. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Sometimes soap refuses to form a lather and instead cakes and floats as a scum on the top of the water; this is not the fault of the soap but of the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The ball is set in a basin of mercury, where it floats. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Several attempts have been made to remedy this defect, and to produce what is called feathering floats, every one of which will act against the water at right angles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Diggory, having returned to the brink of the pool, observed that the small upper hatches or floats were withdrawn. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The great lantern, Fig. 45, is carried by a vertical shaft, which terminates at its lower end in a hollow drum, which latter floats in a bath of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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