float

• an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
• be in motion due to some air or water current
• the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
• the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
• a drink with ice cream floating in it
• an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
• a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
• something that floats on the surface of water
• be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
• set afloat
• circulate or discuss tentatively
• move lightly, as if suspended
• put into the water
• make the surface of level or smooth
• allow (currencies) to fluctuate
• convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
• 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
• A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current
• 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
• A float board
• A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die
• The act of flowing
• A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep
• The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed
• A polishing block used in marble working
• A single-cut file for smoothing
• A coal cart
• The sea
• To rest on the surface of any fluid
• To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft
• To cause to float
• To flood
• To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet
• 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

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