Banking. uncollected checks and commercial paper in process of transfer from bank to bank.
the total amount of any cost-of-living or other variable adjustments added to an employee's pay or a retiree's benefits: a float of $6 per month on top of Social Security benefits.
an act or instance of floating, as a currency on the foreign-exchange market.
Building Trades. a flat tool for spreading and smoothing plaster or stucco.a tool for polishing marble.
a single-cut file of moderate smoothness.
a loose-fitting, sometimes very full dress without a waistline.
a length of yarn that extends over several rows or stitches without being interworked.
British. a sum of money used by a storekeeper to provide change for the till at the start of a day's business.
British. a small vehicle, usually battery powered, used to make deliveries, as of milk.
a low-bodied dray for transporting heavy goods.
Geology, Mining. loose fragments of rock, ore, etc., that have been moved from one place to another by the action of wind, water, etc.ore that has been washed downhill from an orebody and is found lying on the surface of the ground.any mineral in suspension in water.
While the rest of us quarantine at home, influencers will lounge on pool floats, host meet-and-greets with fans, party together.
Near a good halfway point for float trips on the Current River, two sides of this dreamy tiny house in the Ozarks are bordered by Shannondale State Forest.
Achim Randelhoff, an oceanographer at Université Laval in Quebec City, and colleagues deployed autonomous submersible floats in Baffin Bay that can measure photosynthetic activity and algae concentrations underwater.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite water gear that helps me enjoy the remaining hot days, whether that’s taking a canyoneering trip or doing a lazy float with the kids.
If you don’t feel the need for speed, the Super Mable makes a great pool or off-shore float.
In the meantime, Epstein has tried to use his charitable projects to float him back to the top.
You can go as deep as you like, or float about on the surface.
He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.
They haven't been dead long enough to float, but that will come in time.
But miraculously they must float in the heavens so far away from us, their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever.
One frequently wishes to ascertain the specific gravity of quantities of fluid too small to float an urinometer.
The cloud coals grow fainter—now purple; and now in ashes they float away into the chill blue.
A huge float comes along, depicting the stone age and the primitive man, every detail carefully studied from the museums.
Slowly did they float through the darkness of the night, appearing like the work of fairy hands.
Seeds of plants incased in their often dense envelopes may, because they float, be independently carried great distances.