afloat English

Meaning afloat meaning

What does afloat mean?

Definitions in simple English

afloat Adjective

— If something is afloat, it is on the water; floating Although he couldn't swim, the life jacket kept him afloat.

afloat

— adjective (= adrift) aimlessly drifting

— adjective borne on the water; floating

— adjective (= awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing) covered with water the main deck was afloat (or awash) the monsoon left the whole place awash a flooded bathroom inundated farmlands an overflowing tub

Synonyms afloat synonyms

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afloat English » English

adrift

flooded

floating

undirected

rudderless

planless

overflowing

inundated

drifting

directionless

awash

aimless

unsunk

unsinkable

swimming

natant

fluvial

floting

float

driftingly

buoyant

be afloat

arrive

aimlessly

Topics afloat topics

What do people use afloat to talk about?

Universe, creation Water

Be in water

• What words refer to something floating on the surface of the water?
  float float down river afloat

Examples afloat examples

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Movie subtitles

Oh, well, the seacocks are the valves to drain out the boat, and they're always kept tight closed when you're afloat.

She's still afloat.

Maybe still afloat.

Can you keep her afloat?

Do you think we'll stay afloat?

Can we stay afloat?

Only eight of our ships were hit, but we're all afloat.

Boy, it's good to be afloat again.

They'll bring her in if she's afloat.

I don't want to see a splinter left afloat.

We'll keep it afloat until we get picked up. Son of a bitch.

But as long as I keep the boat afloat, we'll all go down together.

Even though she is the sweetest thing afloat.

We're still afloat, are we not?

Anything I could set afloat anywhere.

We're doing poorly enough afloat.

Downed pilot afloat and in sight.

How long did it stay afloat?

I think I can manage to stay afloat. Thank you.

I've made designs for ships that will skim the waves like gulls, outrace anything afloat.

Like a great marble tombstone, he is, afloat.

They're always kept tight closed when you're afloat.

The boat, its side split open, barely stays afloat.

I think I can manage to stay afloat, thank you.

Boats absorb water when they're afloat. Wood expands when it's in water.

Not before you keep the ship afloat.

By remembering who and what you are. A bit of flesh and blood afloat in a universe without end.

But they'd been in a hurry, and the raft was still afloat.

She's been afloat about 40 years.

This is the Earth as Eratosthenes knew it. A tiny, spherical world, afloat in an immensity of space and time.

I have often been adrift but I have always stayed afloat.

It must be your money that keeps you afloat.

News and current affairs

The banks, having been recapitalized only to the extent necessary to keep them afloat, still have weak balance sheets.

For example, Ireland's massive sovereign debt arose because eurozone authorities, intent on saving the banking system, forced the Irish to nationalize their banks as a condition for keeping them afloat.

The recent collective sense across Europe of the urgency of being able to speak with one voice in external affairs may provide the next breeze, and enough glue, to keep the enterprise afloat.

Most of the world's largest banks are essentially insolvent, and depend on continuing government aid and loans to keep them afloat.

The real danger to the president-elect is Menem's legacy: a judiciary that is subordinate to political might, a system of political parties that cannot stay afloat financially without engaging in corruption, and economic chaos.

Some retail banks went belly-up, like Northern Rock, while others stayed afloat (Santander's UK subsidiary, for example).

But, having been used to keep state-owned enterprises afloat for too long, the banks are essentially insolvent.

To be sure, the cost to many governments of rescuing their banks and keeping their economies afloat in the face of business collapse damaged or destroyed their creditworthiness.

This would at least keep the economy afloat pending the development of the longer-term investment program.

At first, Turkey's central bank acted as lender of last resort, keeping bad banks afloat.

So the countries that benefit from this largesse have a responsibility to speak up for the constituents who help keep their economies afloat.

The sharp depreciation of the euro after the crisis helped sustain German exports, thereby keeping the eurozone afloat.

Obama will be forced to help craft a compromise to keep the state financially afloat.

If sovereign wealth funds want to enter and keep capital-starved firms afloat in hopes of a big rebound, they should be allowed to do so.

Central banks have been handed the job of keeping economies afloat, but most of the money that they print remains stuck in the banking system, unable to arrest stagnating consumption and falling investment.

Unlike hunger or land mines, the cause of rectifying global trade imbalances will not touch the public enough to attract the donations that are necessary to keep NGOs afloat.

Many of them have jobs that require them to dip into credit lines just to stay afloat.

And it is not the opposition or a popular rebellion that are beginning to destabilize Putin's regime, but the very forces that have helped to keep it afloat.

That loophole allowed his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street to pay themselves billion-dollar bonuses while keeping those firms afloat with taxpayers' money.

This is not, needless to say, because Europeans crave the rigors of America's less cosseted social conditions, but because it's the only way that European governments will be able to stay afloat financially.

The paradox here is that, as its hegemonic power fades, America must rely increasingly on foreign creditors, above all China, to stay afloat.

For keeping Ukraine afloat over the past 15 months, Tymoshenko deserves the West's thanks, not the cynicism that we are currently seeing.