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A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. / A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. / A float board.

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Source Word

float

IPA(Pronunciation)

/fləʊt/

Noun

Britain Australia obsolete UK dated

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid. / A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. / A float board.

Japanese Meaning

水中や他の液体で何かを支えるために用いられる浮き具 / 流れに乗って運ばれるよう、板や木材を組み合わせた筏 / 浮き板

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We tethered the fragile package to a brightly colored float to keep it from sinking during the river crossing.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

川を渡る間、壊れやすい荷物が沈まないように、それを鮮やかな色のブイに繋ぎました。

Sense（1）

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.

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Sense（2）

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

Sense（3）

A float board.

Sense（4）

A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.

Sense（5）

A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.

When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.

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Sense（6）

An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.

That float covered in roses is very pretty.

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Sense（7）

A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.

Sense（8）

(Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.

Sense（9）

(finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.

Sense（10）

(finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.

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Sense（11）

No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.

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Sense（12）

(insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.

We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.

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Sense（13）

(programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.

That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.

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Sense（14）

A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.

I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float.

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(knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.

Sense（18）

(automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.

Sense（19）

(transport) A lowboy trailer.

Sense（20）

(obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

Hee being now in Float for Treasure.

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Sense（21）

A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Sense（22）

(UK, dated) A coal cart.

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Sense（24）

(computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.

Sense（25）

(biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.

floats

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