float – English noun declension

English noun forms of float

Noun: float
Singularfloat
Pluralfloats

Sample Sentences

  • Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
  • 'What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. 'Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.' [1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40:]
  • When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
  • That float covered in roses is very pretty.
  • As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm. [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
  • You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. [2006, “Buying shares in a float”, in Australian Securities and Investments Commission financial tips article, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2005:]
  • No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
  • We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.
  • That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.
  • If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats. [2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214:]
  • I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice cream to be a "real" float.
  • I knew that a simple float on the surface of the Merino might catch if I made it big enough to show very much. [1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 82:]
  • The appearance of a waffle fabric changes drastically with washing. Yarns differ, but most relax and twist and curl in the long floats when washed; the severe rectilinear design of the waffle cells in unwashed waffle weave fabric will soften dramatically. [1991, Carol Strickler, editor, A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, Interweave Press, →ISBN, pages 140-141:]
  • Rod Basket with Serpentine Floats [1991, Rachel Nash Law, Cynthia Wieboldt Taylor, Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket, page xii:]
  • Hee being now in Float for Treasure. [1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:]
  • The machinery consists of two saws, a polishing table, a float for grinding marble, and a ripping saw for cutting slabs. [1863 April 24, “Trade News”, in The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume 10, page 324:]
  • Float Machinist— One who squares up, faces, noses or chamfers on a float all marble, slate, or similar stones, and including terrazzo or similar compositions. [1925, Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports, page 557:]
  • Next , finishers rub a float — a small and smooth, rectangular piece of wood — over the entire surface, carefully avoiding edges and joints. [1980, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 215:]
  • Floated: Obtained by successive passages with a wooden float on the coat's surface until it is flat and uniform [2015, M. Clara Gonçalves, Fernanda Margarido, Materials for Construction and Civil Engineering, page 102:]
  • Because margin floats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between two floats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels […] [2004, Eric A. Meyer, More Eric Meyer on CSS, page 36:]
  • When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content. [2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page 93:]

Etymology

From Middle English flote, from Old English flota (“sailor, boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotō, from Proto-Germanic *flutô, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. See: Middle English Nouns 'flote', Old English Nouns 'flota'.

Verbs referencing "float"

Danish Nouns flåde.