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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)

    “I may be smelly and I may be old,
    Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools,
    But where my fish float by I bless their swimming
    And I like the people to bathe in me, especially women.”
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)