Over the tree-tops Ifloat thee a song, / Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide, / Over the dense-pack’d cities all and the teeming wharves and ways, / Ifloat this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
Ifloated the idea of free ice cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
2025 January 8, Steve Holland, Joseph Ax, “Trump won't rule out force to take Panama Canal, Greenland”, inUSA Today[1], sourced fromReuters,→ISSN,→OCLC, Nation & World,page 1NN, columns3–4:
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, alsofloated the idea of turning Canada into a U.S. state, said he would demand far higher defense spending from NATO allies and promised to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page210:
"Peg out a claim wherever you like and we willfloat it," was the substance of many a code of instructions sent by unprincipled men in the mining world of the colonies to the gold prospectors in Port Darwin.
He [Mario Moretti Polegato]floated the company on the Milan Stock Exchange last December and sold 29 per cent of its shares, mostly to American investors.
2007, Jonathan Reuvid,Floating Your Company: The Essential Guide to Going Public:
2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i,page 269,
As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc andfloated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
1932,The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes35-37, page35:
This wire, nailed over the face of the old plaster will also reinforce any loose lath or plaster after the walls have set.Float the wall to the face of the lath first.
2010, Andy Harris,HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, page290:
To get the footer acting right, you need tofloat it and clear it on both margins.
(transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
You can't just close the drawer, log in to the till and start serving customers, telling them you're only taking card payments and that they should gonto another till if they're paying in cash. The till needs to befloated first, so ask the manager on the headset if you can use it and she'llfloat it and let you know when you can start serving.
computing: to cause to float above or beside others
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A small plane onfloats (buoyant devices).smoothing concrete with a floata parade floata float (drink with ice cream)a woven coverlet; the dark blue areas are long floats that cover multiplewarp threads
(weaving) Aweft thread that passes over two or morewarp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
1991, Carol Strickler, editor,A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, Interweave Press,→ISBN, pages140-141:
The appearance of a waffle fabric changes drastically with washing. Yarns differ, but most relax and twist and curl in the longfloats when washed; the severe rectilinear design of the waffle cells in unwashed waffle weave fabric will soften dramatically.
(knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
(basketry) Adecorativerod that extends over the body of abasket without being attached for part of its length.
1991, Rachel Nash Law, Cynthia Wieboldt Taylor,Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket (page xii)
1863 April 24, “Trade News”, inThe Building News and Engineering Journal, volume10, page324:
The machinery consists of two saws, a polishing table, afloat for grinding marble, and a ripping saw for cutting slabs.
1925, Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration,Commonwealth Arbitration Reports, page557:
Float Machinist— One who squares up, faces, noses or chamfers on afloat all marble, slate, or similar stones, and including terrazzo or similar compositions.
1980,Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page215:
Next , finishers rub afloat — a small and smooth, rectangular piece of wood — over the entire surface, carefully avoiding edges and joints.
2015, M. Clara Gonçalves, Fernanda Margarido,Materials for Construction and Civil Engineering, page102:
Floated: Obtained by successive passages with a woodenfloat on the coat's surface until it is flat and uniform
2004, Eric A. Meyer,More Eric Meyer on CSS, page36:
Because marginfloats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between twofloats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels[…]
2007, Michael Bowers,Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns, page93:
When afloat 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.
(publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow withinbody text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (inbuoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or otherfloated element.
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