different between float vs tun

English

Etymology

From Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *flut?n? (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”). Cognate with Middle Low German vloten, vlotten (“to float, swim”), Middle Dutch vloten, Old Norse flota, Icelandic fljóta, Old English fl?otan (“to float, swim”), Ancient Greek ???? (plé?), Lithuanian plaukti, Russian ???????? (plávat?), Latin plaustrum (“wagon, cart”). Compare flow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fl??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /flo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

float (third-person singular simple present floats, present participle floating, simple past and past participle floated)

1. (intransitive) 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.

2. (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.

3. (intransitive) To be capable of floating.

4. (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating

5. (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.

6. (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.

7. (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.

8. (intransitive, figuratively) To circulate.

9. (intransitive, colloquial) (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.

10. (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.

11. (intransitive) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
12. (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.

13. (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.

14. (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.

15. (transitive, finance) 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.
    • 2005 June 21, Dewi Cooke, The Age [1],

      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 and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.

16. (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
    • 1932, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer (volumes 35-37, page 35)

      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.

17. (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.

18. (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
19. (poker) To perform a float.
20. (computing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
    • 2010, Andy Harris, HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies (page 290)

      To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.

Derived terms

• float someone's boat
• whatever floats your boat

Translations

Noun

float (plural floats)

1. A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
2. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
3. A float board.
4. A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
5. A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.

6. An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.

7. (Britain) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7

     As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm.

8. (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.

9. (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) 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.
10. (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.

11. (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.

12. (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
    • 2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing (page 214)

      If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.

13. A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.

14. A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
15. (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
16. (knitting) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
17. (automotive) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination
18. (transport) a lowboy trailer
19. (tempering) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

20. (obsolete) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

21. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

22. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

23. (Britain, dated) A coal cart.
24. A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
25. (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
    • 2007, Michael Bowers, Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns (page 93)

      When a float 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.

Synonyms

• (Shares offered to the public:): initial public offering

Derived terms

• floatplane

Translations

References

Anagrams

• aloft, flota

English

Alternative forms

• tunne, tonne (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tunne, tonne (“cask, barrel”), from Old English tunne (“tun, cask, barrel”), from Proto-Germanic *tunn?, *tunn? (“tun, barrel, cask”), from Latin tunna, probably of Gaulish origin.

Cognate with North Frisian tenn (“tun, barrel, cask”), Dutch ton (“tun, barrel, cask”), German Tonne (“tun, barrel, drum”), Danish tønde (“barrel”), Swedish tunna (“barrel, cask, tun”), Icelandic tunna (“barrel”). Compare also Old French tonne, French tonneau (“ton, barrel”), Medieval Latin tunna (“cask”), Middle Irish tunna (“cask”), Welsh tynell (“tun, barrel”). It is uncertain whether the Germanic or the Celtic forms are the original.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?n/, /t?n/
• Homophones: ton, tonne
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

tun (plural tuns)

1. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
2. (brewing) A fermenting vat.
3. (historical) An old English liquid measure, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205:

     Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

4. A weight of 2,240 pounds.
5. An indefinite large quantity.

   Synonyms: buttload; see also Thesaurus:lot

   • 1682, John Dryden, "Mac Flecknoe", lines 195-196:

     A Tun of Man in thy Large bulk is writ, / But sure thou'rt but a Kilderkin of wit.

6. (archaic, humorous or derogatory) A drunkard.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

7. Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
8. The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.

Verb

tun (third-person singular simple present tuns, present participle tunning, simple past and past participle tunned)

1. (transitive) To put into tuns, or casks.

Etymology 2

Mayan. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

tun (plural tuns)

1. A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.

Anagrams

• NTU, NUT, Nut, nut

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• tunu, tunã

Etymology

From Latin ton?. Compare Romanian tuna, tun.

Verb

tun (past participle tunatã)

1. I thunder.

Related terms

• tunari / tunare
• tunat
• ditun / ditunã

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos). Compare Italian tuono, Friulian ton, Catalan tro, Romansch tun, tung, Romanian tun, tunet, Spanish trueno.

Noun

tun m

1. thunderclap, thunder

Danish

Etymology 1

A contraction of tunfisk, from German Thunfisch (“tuna”), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúnnos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?n/, [t?u??n]

Noun

tun c (singular definite tunen, plural indefinite tun)

1. tuna
2. tuna fish
3. tun

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *t?n?, from Proto-Celtic *d?nom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?n/, [t?u??n]

Noun

tun n (singular definite tunet, plural indefinite tun)

1. (dated) an enclosed piece of ground

Inflection

Etymology 3

See tune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?n/, [t?u??n]

Verb

tun

1. imperative of tune

Fula

Alternative forms

• tan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

tun

1. only

Usage notes

• Used in Pular.
• Other varieties of Fula use tan.

Adverb

tun

1. only

Usage notes

• Used in Pular.
• Other varieties of Fula use tan.

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014. (when accessed 2019-9-10, there was no entry for tun, but an example using the word was given in entry for jam)
• Herb Caudill and Ousmane Besseko Diallo, Mi?o waawi Pular! : learner's guide to Pular (Fuuta Jallon), Conakry, 2000. (examples in text)

German

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) thun

Etymology

From Middle High German tuon, from Old High German tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *d?n, from Proto-Germanic *d?n?, derived from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, set, place”). Cognate with English do.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?n/, [tu?n]

Verb

tun (irregular, third-person singular present tut, past tense tat, past participle getan, past subjunctive täte, auxiliary haben)

1. to do (to perform or execute an action)

   Synonym: machen

2. (with dative) to do something (positive or negative) to someone

   Synonym: antun

3. (reflexive, with an indefinite pronoun) to make a difference; to be different

   Synonym: unterscheiden

4. (somewhat informal, with “so” or “als ob”) to fake; to feign; to pretend

   Synonyms: vortäuschen, täuschen, vorgeben

5. (chiefly colloquial) to put, to place, to add

   Synonyms: setzen, legen, stellen, platzieren, hinzufügen

   • 2017, Simone Meier, Fleisch, Kein & Aber, p. 27:

6. (chiefly colloquial, with “es”) to work, to function

   Synonym: funktionieren

7. (chiefly colloquial, but acceptable in writing) Used with the preceding infinitive of another verb to emphasise this verb

8. (colloquial, nonstandard) Used with the following infinitive of another verb, often to emphasise the statement

9. (colloquial, nonstandard) Used in the past subjunctive with the infinitive of another verb to form the conditional tense (instead of standard würde)

Usage notes

• The verb tun in the sense of “to perform” is not used in combination with nouns. This function is covered by the verb machen: ich mache Sport, wir machen ein Spiel, er macht die Wäsche (“I do sport, we do a game, he does the laundry”). The same is true with pronouns that represent such nouns: Wer macht die Wäsche? – Ich mache sie. (“Who does the laundry? – I do it.”) It is usually ungrammatical to use tun in sentences like these.

Tun is only used with pronouns that represent actions as a whole: Was tust du? (“What are you doing?”) Ich tue viel für die Umwelt. (“I do a lot for the environment.”) Er tut alles, was sie sagt. (“He does everything she says.”)

• (colloquial, nonstandard): The use of do-support is a feature of several dialects and minority languages in Germany. In the standard language, it is most established along the Rhine. It is somewhat more acceptable when used for emphasis (as in the example with zuhören above), but is otherwise often regarded as illiterate (as in the example with aufräumen). This latter usage is generally associated with lower socio-economic status.

Conjugation

• The 1st person singular present indicative may also be (ich) tu.

Derived terms

Related terms

• Tat f

Further reading

• “tun” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hausa

Preposition

tun

1. since, ever since

Hlai

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai) IPA^(key): /t?un??/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hlai *t?un (“language”), from Pre-Hlai *tun (Norquest, 2015).

Noun

tun

1. speech; words; language
2. folk song
3. dispute; controversy

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hlai *t?u[n/?] (“to reap”), from Pre-Hlai *tu[n/?] (Norquest, 2015).

Verb

tun

1. to reap

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *tonë.

Pronoun

tun

1. you (singular)

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Mandarin

Romanization

tun

1. Nonstandard spelling of t?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tún.
3. Nonstandard spelling of t?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tùn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Verb

tun (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. to catch

Conjugation

Middle English

Noun

tun

1. Alternative form of toun

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tun m (plural tuns)

1. (Jersey) tuft

Synonyms

• toupet
• tus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tún. Akin to English town.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??n/

Noun

tun n (definite singular tunet, indefinite plural tun, definite plural tuna)

1. courtyard, front yard (the area in front of, around or between houses, particularly on a farm)
   • 1996, Jon Fosse, Nokon kjem til å komme:

2. farmstead (collection of buildings and the area between them on a farm)

References

• “tun” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *t?n (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?n/

Noun

t?n m (nominative plural t?nas)

1. an enclosed piece of ground, an enclosure or garden
2. the enclosed ground belonging to an individual dwelling
3. the group of houses on an area of enclosed land, a homestead
4. a large inhabited place, a town

Declension

Related terms

• t?nan
• d?n (“dune, hill, mountain”)

Descendants

• English: town
  • Northumbrian: toon
• Scots: toun

See also

• d?n (“to place, put, set”)

Old French

Pronoun

tun m (feminine ta)

1. (Anglo-Norman) your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

Synonyms

• vostre (second-person plural form)

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tonus (the original meaning being "thunderclap", as with the Romance cognates). See also the doublet ton (“tone”), borrowed through French.

Noun

tun n (plural tunuri)

1. cannon
2. (archaic, popular) thunderclap

Related terms

• tuna
• tunet

Romansch

Alternative forms

• tùn (Sutsilvan)
• tung (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin tonus.

Noun

tun m

1. sound
2. thunder

Spanish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tun m (plural tunes)

1. A Pre-Hispanic percussion instrument from Guatemala, consisting of a hollow wooden block with slits in the sides

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *t?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with Danish tun (“enclosed area”), Icelandic tún (“hayfield”), Norwegian Nynorsk tun (“farmstead; courtyard”), English town, German Zaun (“fence”), Dutch tuin (“garden”).

Noun 1

tun n

1. (archaic, dialectal) courtyard, area surrounded by buildings

Declension

Noun 2

tun c

1. (Gotland) fence

Declension

Derived terms

• Tunberg, Thunberg

Tetum

Verb

tun

1. to descend

Welsh

Etymology

From English tin.

Noun

tun m (plural tuniau or tunnau)

1. tin (substance)
2. tin (container), tin can

Synonyms

• (substance): alcam, ystaen
• (tin can): can

Derived terms

• tunio

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “tun”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yámana

Noun

tun

1. tooth