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Float

  • Public float, the free float of a public company is an estimate of number of shares of a stock held in public hands
  • Fishing float, a bite indicator used in angling
  • Fishing net float, small floats attached along one side of the net so that it hangs vertically in the water
  • Glass float, a type of large float used to keep fishing nets or droplines afloat
  • Float (liquid level), a fluid-level indicator used in process engineering and plumbing
  • Float (money supply), duplicate money present in the banking system during an electronic transaction
  • Float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform, animal- or man-drawn or motorized, used in a festive parade
  • Float (project management), project time management device
  • Float (nautical), the air filled structures on a pontoon boat or floatplane
  • Float (horse-drawn), a form of two-wheeled horse-drawn cart with a low loadbed.
  • Float, also known as ice cream soda
  • Float or horse float, also known as horse trailer
  • Float, a Cascading Style Sheets attribute
  • Float, a single precision binary floating-point computer number format
  • Concrete float, a finishing tool for smoothing wet concrete surfaces
  • Float, a rasp-like tool having a series of sharp cutting teeth
  • Planemaker's float
  • Equine dental float, a short float with a long handle, used on horse teeth
  • Float, a term used in paleontology to describe bits of fossil bone with no scientific value

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Famous quotes containing the word float:

    “Come hither, all ye empty things,
    Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
    Who float upon the tide of state,
    Come hither, and behold your fate.
    Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
    How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
    From all his ill-got honours flung,
    Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “There are ... intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.”
    —Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)

    “Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)