float
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8.4
- noun
- /floʊt/
- Specialized
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llana
- I just don't think you get enough up front with a five-year float before you start paying off 30-year money.
Examples
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It's actually worse than that because opting out of the 5-year float doesn't mean the project has to slide 5 years.
Blog text (19) -
These products are delivered unrefrigerated on a small flatbed vehicle referred to as a milk float.
Academic text (1994) -
Nearly all sheet glass made today uses the float process.
Blog text (4) -
The shot jolts her only slightly, and the round I place in her other float causes her hardly to flinch.
Fiction book (1997) -
In 1959, Britain's Alistair Pilkington invented the "float process" for making sheet glass.
Blog text (4) -
By Nancy Kirkpatrick, RN, Staff Nurse, Float Pool, Porter Memorial Hospital, Littleton, Colo.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sitting in dawn light, the heart barely awake, he had watched her float from bedroom to bathroom, cloaked in glowing white as morning touched her semi-conscious body.
Fiction book (1997) -
To achieve a smooth finish on your wall, use a float to apply even pressure as you glide it over the wet plaster.
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After applying the cement, a carpenter will finish the surface with a float for a polished look.
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For the best results, ensure the float is clean before using it to finish your stucco surface.
Synonyms
A flat hand tool with a handle used to smooth wet wall material like plaster or cement
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
An emergency raft on a ship for people to use if they must leave at sea
A position for floating face down in the water with arms stretched forward to rest and breathe
- Specialized
A device with a float that rests on collected rain to measure how much falls
- Specialized
A tool that measures rain using a float on the top of the collected water
- Specialized
A flat hand tool with a handle used to smooth wet wall material like plaster or cement
How Smooth
Surface Forms
Etymology
A plaster float is a tool used to smooth wet plaster, and it is called a float because you 'float' the tool across the surface to make it even, echoing the sense of flotan 'to move or glide'.