float(1) (iou) and hidden part (medicine)

float(1) (iou)

float noun. Also flote (see also FLOTE-GRASS). OE.
[Partly from Old English, Old Norse flot floating state, Old English flota, Old Norse floti ship, fleet; partly from the verb.]
I.
a. The action or an act of floating. Formerly also, the condition of floating or being on the water; esp. in on float afloat. Now rare. OE.
A. Thackeray A romantic float in a gondola.
b. An operation of floating a currency. L20.
A stream, a river; the sea; a wave. ME-M17.
Shakespeare Tempest Upon the Mediterranean flote Bound sadly Home for Naples.
The flood of the tide; an overflow from a river, a flood; esp. in on float in flood, at high water. E16-L18.
fig.: A. M. Bennett With all her animal spirits in the fullest float of exhilaration.
II. A floating object.
A cork or Other buoyant object used on a fishing-line to indicate by movement when a fish bites, or on a fishing net to support the edge. ME.
L. MacNeice The handsome glass balls which are used as floats for nets.
b. A hollow or inflated part or organ supporting an organism in the water. M19.
c. A buoyant device used to help an inexperienced swimmer remain afloat. L19.
d. A structure fitted to the alighting gear of an aircraft to enable it to float on water. L19.
A mass of weeds, ice, etc., floating on the surface of water. Now rare. M16.
Any of the boards or paddles of a water-wheel or paddle-wheel. E17.
A hollow ball or Other similar device for regulating the water-level in a boiler, cistern, etc., or the petrol-level in the carburettor of a petrol engine. M18.
Theatrical. sing. & in pl. The footlights. E19.
A soft drink with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it. Also ice-cream float. E20.
J. Didion She was also attracted to happy endings..the Coke float that followed the skinned knee.
III. A broad, level, shallow means of transportation.
A raft, a flat-bottomed boat. LME.
P. V. White The saplings were soon bound together, and upon floats of hollow logs, by means of thongs.
A low-bodied cart or vehicle; esp. a low-bodied battery-powered vehicle for delivering milk or Other goods (also milk float). M19.
A platform on wheels with a display on it, used in processions. L19.
A. Burgess Behind him came floats with young people's tableauxThe Jazz Age,..Prison Reform.
IV. Misc. uses corresp. to senses of the verb.
A tool used in the making of archers' bows. obsolete exc. Heraldry. LME.
Any of various tools used for smoothing or levelling; esp. (a) a single cut file; (b) a plasterer's trowel; (c) a marble-worker's polishing block. M17.
Chiefly Mining. Loose rock or ore brought by water from its original formation. Also, particles of ore which do not settle readily in water. Also float-ore etc. L17.
A trench used for floating or irrigating land. L18.
Weaving. The passing of weft threads over a section of the warp without being interwoven; a thread or group of threads so passed. M19.
A government warrant confirming a prospective settler's claim to a part of a tract of public land put up for sale. US. M19.
a. A sum of money in a shop etc. made available for change-giving or minor expenditures. E20.
b. The amount of money represented by cheques etc. in transit. Chiefly US. E20.
In critical path analysis, the period of time by which the duration of an activity may be extended. M20.
Comb.: float-board = sense 6 above; float-chamber a small chamber in a carburettor from which petrol, maintained at a constant level by the action of a float, is supplied to the jets; float-cut adjective (of a file) single cut; float glass: manufactured by the float process (see below); float-light a lightship; float-ore: see sense 15 above; floatplane a seaplane equipped with floats; float process: for making plate glass by drawing it in a continuous sheet from the melting tank and on to the surface of molten metal for hardening.

hidden part (medicine)

hidden part -->
pars tecta
<anatomy> An obsolete term, pars tecta duodeni, the part of duodenum covered by the root of the transverse mesocolon, the coalescence of the ascending mesocolon, and the root of the mesentery, pars tecta pancreatis, hidden portion of the pancreas; part of the pancreas covered by the root of the transverse mesocolon, the coalescence of the ascending mesocolon, and the root of the mesentery, pars tecta renalis, hidden portion of the kidney; part of the kidney covered by the root of the transverse mesocolon, pars tecta ureteralis, hidden portion of the ureter; part of the right ureter covered (crossed) by the root of the mesentery, and of the left ureter covered (crossed) by the root of the sigmoid mesocolon.

Synonym: hidden part.

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