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.”
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.”
verb
Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface.
“The boat floated on the water.”
To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating