Launch vs Float - What's the difference?
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To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
* 2011 , Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 , page 323
(obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
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* 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
* 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)
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, title= (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.
* 1718 , (Matthew Prior), Solomon: On the Vanity of the World , Preface
* 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:
The act of launching.
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, title= The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
(nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
(nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
(nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha .)
English ergative verbs
(lb) 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.
(lb) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density; as, to float a boat.
(lb) To be capable of floating.
(lb) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating
(lb) To drift or wander aimlessly.
(lb) To drift gently through the air.
(lb) To move in a fluid manner.
(of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
(lb) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
(lb) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
(of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.
To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
To extend a short-term loan to.
To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
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* 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,
(lb) To use a float (tool).
(lb) To perform a .
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.
A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
(lb) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
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(lb) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
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.
(lb) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
(lb) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
(lb) A floating-point number.
A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
(lb) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of after a subsequent community card.
(lb) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
(lb) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination
(lb) a lowboy trailer
(lb) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.
(lb) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
A coal cart.
As verbs the difference between launch and float
is that launch is to throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force while float is (lb) 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.As nouns the difference between launch and float
is that launch is the act of launching or launch can be (nautical) the boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch" while float is a buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.launch
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Alternative forms
* lanch (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) /Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi ) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.Verb
(es)- There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears
- And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
- Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
- All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .
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- In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths
- My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
Synonyms
* (to pierce) lance, pierceNoun
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Derived terms
* launching (as a noun) * launching waysEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(es)Derived terms
*See also
* barge * boat * * yachtAnagrams
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(wikipedia float)Verb
(en verb)- The boat floated on the water.
- The oil floated on the vinegar.
- That boat doesn’t float .
- Oil floats on vinegar.
- I’d love to just float downstream.
- I’m not sure where they went... they’re floating around here somewhere.
- Images from my childhood floated through my mind.
- The balloon floated off into the distance.
- The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.
- That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float .
- I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
- The yen floats against the dollar.
- The government floated the pound in January.
- Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.
- Could you float me $50 until payday?
- 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.
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- As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
- It is time to float this horse's teeth.
Derived terms
* float someone's boat * whatever floats your boatNoun
(en noun)- Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
- When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float .
- That float covered in roses is very pretty.
- As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm.
- Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
- 2006', ''You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a '''float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.'' — financial tips article, ''Buying shares in a float [http://www.fido.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/print/Buying+shares+in+a+float?opendocument]
- No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
- We make a lot of interest from our nightly float .
- That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float .
- It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float .
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