Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 8 compound words that contain floats. The most common are listed below. Open floats in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- ice cream floatsplural of ice cream float: Ice cream combined with a flavored carbonated soft drink, most commonly root beer.
- root beer floatsplural of root beer float: A dessert consisting of root beer poured over vanilla ice cream, so that the ice cream floats.
- clean floatsplural of clean float: Synonym of free float (“type of floating exchange rate”).
- coke floatsplural of coke float: A scoop of ice cream floating in Coke.
- dirty floatsplural of dirty float: A floating exchange rate that is controlled by means of occasional interventions by the country's central bank.
- floats aroundthird-person singular simple present indicative of float around: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see float, around.
- free floatsplural of free float: An estimate of the proportion of shares of a public company that are not held by large owners and that are not stock with sales restrictions.
- hard floatsplural of hard float: A hardware implementation of a floating-point number.
- ice-floatsplural of ice-float: An icefloe.
- information floatsplural of information float: The time between information becoming available and it being publicly broadcast.
- managed floatsplural of managed float: A floating exchange rate that is controlled by means of occasional interventions by the country's central bank.
- milk floatsplural of milk float: An electric accumulator battery-driven vehicle (formerly also horse-drawn), designed for the house-to-house delivery of fresh milk; common in Europe, especially the United Kingdom.
- peg floatsplural of peg float: A machine for rasping away the ends of pegs inside shoes.
- soft floatsplural of soft float: A software implementation of a floating-point number.
- grout floatsplural of grout float: A hand-held tool consisting of a flat oblong of rubber with a handle for applying grout to tilework.
- Carley floatsplural of Carley float: an early life raft consisting of a large oval ring of copper tubing covered with kapok and painted waterproof canvas.
- dead man's floatsplural of dead man's float: A floating position in which the swimmer lies face down on the water with the arms extended forward and the legs behind them.
- floats someone's boatthird-person singular simple present indicative of float someone's boat: To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy.
- whatever floats your boatOne should do whatever stimulates one or suits one's inclinations.
Compound words 8
- armfloatsplural of armfloat: Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”).
- firefloatsplural of firefloat: A fireboat.
- floatsamsplural of floatsam: Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
- floatsticksplural of floatstick: A device used to measure the fuel level on modern aircraft.
- floatstonesplural of floatstone: A kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.
- minifloatsplural of minifloat: A small float (an elaborately decorated vehicle in a parade or pageant).
- outfloatsthird-person singular simple present indicative of outfloat: To float better than; to surpass in floating.
- overfloatsthird-person singular simple present indicative of overfloat: To overflow.