float

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare,.

Verb

 * 1)  To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
 * 2) To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
 * 3)  To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
 * 4)  To be capable of floating.
 * 5)  To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
 * 6)  To drift or wander aimlessly.
 * 7)  To drift gently through the air.
 * 8)  To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
 * 9)  To move in a fluid manner.
 * 10)  To circulate.
 * 11)  To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
 * 12)  (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
 * 13)  To propose (an idea) for consideration.
 * 14)  To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
 * 15)  (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
 * 16)  To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
 * 17)  To extend a short-term loan to.
 * 18)  To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
 * 19) * 2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i, |%22floating%22+shares+OR+company+OR+corporate+OR+corporation+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QJ5UT_jAI-_0mAXSvvSqCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22floated%22|%22floating%22%20shares%20OR%20company%20OR%20corporate%20OR%20corporation%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 269,
 * As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
 * 1)  To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
 * 2)  To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
 * 3)  To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
 * 4)  To perform a float.
 * 5)   To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
 * 1)  To propose (an idea) for consideration.
 * 2)  To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
 * 3)  (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
 * 4)  To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
 * 5)  To extend a short-term loan to.
 * 6)  To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
 * 7) * 2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i, |%22floating%22+shares+OR+company+OR+corporate+OR+corporation+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QJ5UT_jAI-_0mAXSvvSqCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22floated%22|%22floating%22%20shares%20OR%20company%20OR%20corporate%20OR%20corporation%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 269,
 * As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
 * 1)  To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
 * 2)  To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
 * 3)  To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
 * 4)  To perform a float.
 * 5)   To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
 * 1) * 2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i, |%22floating%22+shares+OR+company+OR+corporate+OR+corporation+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QJ5UT_jAI-_0mAXSvvSqCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22floated%22|%22floating%22%20shares%20OR%20company%20OR%20corporate%20OR%20corporation%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 269,
 * As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
 * 1)  To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
 * 2)  To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
 * 3)  To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
 * 4)  To perform a float.
 * 5)   To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
 * 1)  To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
 * 2)  To perform a float.
 * 3)   To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
 * 1)   To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.

Translations

 * Finnish: ;  ;
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: طَفَا, عَامَ
 * Assamese: ওপং, ভাহ
 * Belarusian: пла́ваць, папла́ваць,  плыць, паплы́ць
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lutaw
 * Cherokee: ᎧᏄᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: flosi
 * Estonian: hõljuma
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , felszínen marad
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kabuverdianu: boia, boiá
 * Khmer: អន្ដែត
 * Latin: fluitō
 * Lithuanian: plūduriuoti,
 * Malay:
 * Maori: mānu, pōrena, kōrewarewa, rewa, rewarewa, whakamāpuna
 * Middle English: floten, fleten, swymmen
 * Nepali: तैरिनु
 * Norman: fliotter
 * Old English: flēotan
 * Ottoman Turkish: یوزمك
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: tuytuy, wamp'uy
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: flottar
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pławiś
 * Upper Sorbian: płuwać
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: ambang
 * Swahili: elea
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: плавати, плисти
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Waray-Waray: lu-taw
 * Yiddish: שווימען
 * Zealandic: drieve


 * Bengali:
 * Cherokee: ᎧᏄᎲᏗᎭ
 * Finnish: ; laskea vesille
 * Hungarian:, felszínen tart
 * Japanese: 浮かべる


 * Arabic: طَفَا
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: държа се на повърхността
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, pysyä pinnalla
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Lithuanian: plūduriuoti,
 * Norman: fliotter
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: держа́ться на воде́
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: ngambang
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: трима́тися на воді́
 * Vietnamese:


 * Assamese: উট
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norman: fliotter
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: odplutati,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish: ;
 * Japanese: 漂流する,
 * Maori: whakatairangi
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , besciljno se kretati,


 * Bulgarian: нося се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latin: volito
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: امبڠ
 * Rumi:
 * Maori: tauhōkai, tākawe
 * Norman: fliotter
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: שוועבן


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , liihottaa
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Lithuanian: tekėti
 * Norman: fliotter
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch: te water laten,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:, laskea kellumaan
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norman: fliotter
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Finnish: viedä pörssiin
 * Hungarian:, forgalomba hoz


 * Finnish: levittää lastalla


 * Finnish: raspata


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: floatata


 * Ido:
 * Mongolian:

Noun



 * 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) A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
 * 8)  A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term.
 * 9)  Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
 * 10)  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.
 * 11)  The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
 * 12)  Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
 * 13)  A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
 * 14) A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
 * 15) 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.
 * 16)  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.
 * 17)  One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
 * 18)  A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
 * 19)  A lowboy trailer.
 * 20)  The act of flowing; flux; flow.
 * 21) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
 * 22)  A coal cart.
 * 23) A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
 * 24)  A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
 * 25)  The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
 * 26)   Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within  but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in  metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
 * 4)  A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
 * 5)  A lowboy trailer.
 * 6)  The act of flowing; flux; flow.
 * 7) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
 * 8)  A coal cart.
 * 9) A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
 * 10)  A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
 * 11)  The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
 * 12)   Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within  but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in  metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
 * 1)  A coal cart.
 * 2) A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
 * 3)  A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
 * 4)  The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
 * 5)   Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within  but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in  metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
 * 1)  The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
 * 2)   Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within  but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in  metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.

Translations

 * Bashkir: ҡалҡыуыс
 * Bulgarian: буй, поплавък
 * Catalan:, flotador
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:, 浮揚物
 * Kabuverdianu: bóia
 * Khmer:
 * Lithuanian: plaustas, plūdė
 * Maori: kārewa, kōrewa
 * Norman: fliotte, liège
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Latin:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: höyläraspi,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: taloja
 * Dutch: soort truweel
 * Finnish: hierrin
 * French:
 * Italian: appianatoia, frattazzo,
 * Japanese: 左官鏝,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,


 * Afrikaans: sierwa
 * Catalan: carrossa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: paraatiauto
 * French:
 * German: Festwagen
 * Irish: flóta
 * Italian: carro allegorico
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: karosa, karang
 * Welsh: car sioe


 * Finnish: akkukäyttöinen vaunu
 * Polish: akumulatorowy pojazd


 * Finnish: maksamattomat varat
 * Polish: fundusze do spłacenia


 * Finnish: yleinen osakeanti


 * Finnish: maksamattomat varat
 * Polish: łączna kwota czeków nieuregulowanych


 * Finnish: käteiskassa


 * Finnish: jäätelösooda
 * Japanese: フロート
 * Polish: koktajl lodowy
 * Yiddish: פֿלאָוט


 * Finnish: pohjakassa
 * Polish: mała kwota pieniędzy w kasie


 * Finnish: floattaus
 * Polish:

Etymology
See

Noun

 * 1) fleet, navy