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float English

Meaning float meaning

What does float mean?
Definitions in simple English

float Verb

— When you float, it means that your density is lower than the density of the liquid you are in, which makes you be at the surface of the liquid. As I have a light body, I always float when I go swimming.

float Noun

— Something which stays on or near the surface of water or another liquid. — A buoyant used to help balance in water or another liquid. Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook. — A nicely decorated vehicle, to show in a parade or pageant. That float covered in roses is very pretty.

float

— verb (= drift, be adrift, blow) be in motion due to some air or water current The leaves were blowing in the wind the boat drifted on the lake The sailboat was adrift on the open sea the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore — verb be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom — verb set afloat He floated the logs down the river The boy floated his toy boat on the pond — verb move lightly, as if suspended The dancer floated across the stage — verb circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform — verb allow (currencies) to fluctuate The government floated the ruble for a few months — verb convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation float data — verb put into the water float a ship — verb make the surface of level or smooth float the plaster — noun the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment — noun the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public — noun something that floats on the surface of water — noun a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco — noun an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade — noun (= air bladder) an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy — noun (= ice-cream float) a drink with ice cream floating in it

Synonyms float synonyms

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float English » English

drift swim raft buoy waft sail glide hover bobber bob soar fly fishing float wander pontoon floating vacillate slide set afloat rise to the surface launch issue floatation be adrift swim bladder surface scud ride plasterer’s float navigate move gently levitate ice-cream soda ice-cream float hang flow floater cork cause to float blow be buoyant air bladder wooden float wood rasp wood file wave waterlogged water screen wade vessel

Topics float topics

What do people use float to talk about?
Universe, creation Water

Be in water
Language and thought Want Influence

Suggest
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Gossip
Social behavior Social activity Social event

Festival, show
Work and occupation Hunt and fish Fishing

Fishing equipment
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly

  • What words refer to continuing to move without trying to speed up or slow down?
    coast glide float
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Dive

Conjugation float conjugation

How do you conjugate float?

float · verb

Examples float examples

How do I use float in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Bill, if you'll come with me, you'll float, too.
The substance is light enough to float on the water.
A stone does not float.
Oil will float on water.
I love to float on the water.
Does that float your boat?
Ideas do not belong to anyone, they float in the air.
An apple will float in water, a pear won't.
Did you know that rotten eggs float?
The magician made the young lady float into the air.
The magician made the girl float in thin air.
Why does ice float?
Astronauts are weightless and can sleep in any orientation. However, they have to attach themselves so they don't float around and bump into something.
He was the first man to float in space.
Stones don't float.
Will you teach me how to float?
Let's swim out to the float.
It's possible for a ball of lead to float on water.
Did you know rotten eggs float?

Movie subtitles

Okay, I'm gonna float out.
Evan was on the Christmas float less than 90 minutes ago.
That was Wally Seymour, the curator of the float parade.
When we find the person on the float, we find the killer.
Well, firstly, Speigleman would never touch a meat pie, and secondly, we can corroborate both of them as being present when Evan, or whoever was pretending to be Evan, dismounted the float.
I leave a meat pie at the scene of a crime and get someone else to be on the float.
Well, for whatever reason, whoever was on that float, it wasn't Evan Whitestone.
Someone on the float, to provide our other likely suspects, an alibi, or.
Tomorrow, for the first time in many years, since your mum died, at the Santa Parade there will be a Mrs Claus riding on the float.
See how mine float?
A raft to float him to the ship.
You don't think that anchor's going to float up out of the water, do you?
I could float here forever.
Swim to the float.
I hated you on a float, and I fell in love with you over a bathtub.
A pretty girl like you, with all the rich men that float in here.
What's the hurry? One more drink and Flora will float up on her own breath.
Why don't you wait for the baby to float by and photograph that?
If the buoyancy tanks are okay she'll float, even if we're waterlogged.
You'd better float for a while.
He said to float away to Happyland on the bubbles.
One con's gonna buy his way out. Another knows the governor's cousin. A third guy's even gonna float out in a homemade balloon.
Tie them to anything that will float!
Float out and see the circus!
Gee, you could just float in it.
The tender blossoms of the cherry Fall and float to the ground To make room For the thronging fruit.
Float a little!
In case anything happens, jump out, pull this cord, a big umbrella thing opens up and you float to earth like you were lying on a cloud.
Somehow or other, I can't figure myself getting excited about a root beer float.
He said to float away to Happyland on the bubbles. Oh, look at this.
In a few years, perhaps he will float on the ocean and be cast upon an island.
Yes, boats. Those things that float on water. He's going to build them.
If only we could float some more T.C.s.
If they float in toward shore,you'll come back some day.
If they float out to sea, you won't.
Stealing the top of my float chamber and telling the police I'd stolen my own car.
Won't the tide float the timber off, Dad?

News and current affairs

The central bank tries to hold the exchange rate, but eventually is forced to let the currency float.
China was urged not to float its currency.
If China had let its currency float back then, it would have depreciated in value, deepening the crisis.
But, in the real world, many countries, particularly but not limited to small, open economies, simply find it impractical or undesirable to permit their currency to float.
He could liberalize the exchange rate and let it float upwards, but he is not even doing that.
Luckily, China's government knows that America's advice to let the renminbi float right now is dangerous--both to China and for the world economy.
A necessary step is to abandon convertibility and let the peso float, while transforming outstanding obligations to pesos so as to prevent the devaluation from wrecking the balance sheets of local banks and corporations.
Let all the heavily indebted southern European countries jointly agree to join a weak euro, which would float against the stronger northern euro.
Never mind that most of the crises could have been avoided, or late least substantially mitigated, if governments had let their currencies float against the dollar, rather than adopting rigid exchange-rate pegs.
If the NBU lets the exchange rate float, Ukrainians are likely to exchange billions of dollars into hryvnia, driving up the hryvnia exchange rate.
When Should China Float?
Under heavy pressure from America, China's leaders have agreed in principle to float the renminbi, but refuse to say when.
Yet China's rulers are right to postpone the decision to float.
The rest of the world, particularly Germany, had no choice but to let their currencies float.
And the episode served to reinforce an international consensus that countries' monetary policy should focus on domestic price stability while letting exchange rates float freely.
Even countries that practice inflation targeting and have otherwise vowed to let their exchange rates float - Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, for example - have done it, and in large quantities.
Sixteen years ago, the Asian financial crisis erupted, following the Thai government's decision to float the baht in the face of speculative attacks.
Some part of it will float on the surface, but parts may also form plumes at different depths in the water mass.
The Chinese could abolish capital controls and let the renminbi's exchange rate float.
Some emerging economies did not let their currencies float but, instead, continued to peg them at undervalued exchange rates in order to promote their exports and build up reserves as a form of insurance in case of crisis.
To be sure, street protests and a chaotic clamor of recrimination have gripped Pakistan, while dire threats float in the Internet ether and a bizarre indifference pervades the rest of the Muslim world.
Just letting the yuan float upward does not resolve the dilemma.
But if the RMB is allowed to float, isn't a balanced trade account likely?
Much of the concern over the past few years has centered on America's yawning current account and fiscal deficits, and its effort to get China to let the yuan float more freely against the dollar.
Indeed, Brazil's stock market soared on news that the country's currency - the Real - was allowed to float and the nightmare of a monetary straitjacket lifted.
Such support is clearly unsustainable; in fact, the CBR recently announced that it will allow the ruble to float, implying an exchange rate that reflects the market's expectations concerning oil prices and future capital outflows.

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