Float

  • 51float — See: bank float, cash float …

    Accounting dictionary

  • 52float —   1. Not sink. Lana, lanalana.   Also: mālana, lewa, ho olewa, au, aumiha, ālana, ālewalewa, pūlana, pūlewa, nananana, ho oīkā, lanaau, welo, kālewa, pulelo, kīlepa, ku uwelu, puewa, pua, kualana, pōnulu, pōnululu, pōnununu.   2. Of a net. Mouo,… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 53float — [1] A small hollow tank which is more buoyant than the liquid in which it is immersed. In a carburetor it operates the valve (needle and seat) which controls the amount of fuel entering the carburetor. In the fuel tank, it indicates the amount of …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 54Float — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Float est un mot anglais qui peut faire référence à : En programmation, notamment en langage C, un nombre en virgule flottante enregistré sur l… …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 55float — n. [A.S. flotian, float] An air filled sac used for buoyancy by an organism or its eggs …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 56float by — phr verb Float by is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑balloon …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 57float on — phr verb Float on is used with these nouns as the object: ↑stock exchange …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 58float up — phr verb Float up is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑balloon …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 59float — [OE] Germanic *fleut , which produced English fleet, had the so called ‘weak grades’ (that is, variant forms which because they were weakly stressed had different vowels) *flot and *flut . The former was the source of Germanic *flotōjan, which… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 60float — fləʊt n. buoy; something that floats; air container on the underside of a seaplane (enables flotation); vehicle for carrying an exhibit in a parade; soft drink or furit juice with ice cream floating in it; milkshake with ice cream floating in… …

    English contemporary dictionary