float
/floʊt/ noun A2- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. · Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A float board.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster. · When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant. · That float covered in roses is very pretty.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid. · Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
Plural floats
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Allan, most earnestly, but I didn’t shut my eyes to pray, for I knew the only way God could save me was to let the flat float close enough to one of the bridge piles for me to climb up on it.
“Never mind, dearest mother,” said a young and lovely girl, with a profusion of light brown hair, and eyes that seemed to float in liquid crystal, “’tis all my fault for seizing upon M.
“The Tin Woodman must build us a raft, so we can float to the other side.”
An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.
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