Word Finder - floated

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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.

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The boat floated on the water.

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To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.

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to float a boat

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To be capable of floating.

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Oil floats on vinegar.

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To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating

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I’d love to just float downstream.

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To drift or wander aimlessly.

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Images from my childhood floated through my mind.

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To drift gently through the air.

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The balloon floated off into the distance.

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To move in a fluid manner.

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The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.

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To circulate.

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There's a rumour floating around the office that Jan is pregnant.

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(of an idea or scheme) To be viable.

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That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float.

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To propose (an idea) for consideration.

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I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.

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To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.

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(of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.

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The yen floats against the dollar.

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

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Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.

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To extend a short-term loan to.

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Could you float me $50 until payday?

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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.

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To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.

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

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It is time to float this horse's teeth.

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To transport by float (vehicular trailer).

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To perform a float.

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To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.

The scent of jasmine floated from the bathing chamber.

He probably floated out on the tide.

Sarah floated down the stairs with Connor in tow.

A golden leaf floated down in the cool morning mist and joined a carpet of others under the tree.

Most of them rested in piles at the bottom of the lake while some floated in the water.

He tossed it in the air, and it dissipated into sparkles that floated upward.

He hasn't floated in, has he?

The sense of being protected, safe, floated through her.

It was Lydia's trailing smoke that floated it to life.

That guy Byrne's body floated in.

Dorothy and the buggy had floated slowly down stream with the current of the water, and the others made haste to join her.

Instead of preparing to face off the vamp, she floated upwards.

Among the lesser manufactures are lumber and timber products (value in 1905, $5,610,772), most of the raw material being floated down on rafts from Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that was not so very disagreeable to bear.

A ripple of cold energy floated through her head and made her shiver.

A few floated away until caught by another current while others settled nearby.

Sarah floated into the room as Jackson took Elisabeth's coat.

The Little Kanawha, which has also been improved, serves chiefly for the transportation of logs which are floated down to the Ohio.

Light boats and rafts are floated at all points, and steamers ply on its lower portion; its estuary has important fisheries.

The American warship "Nipsic" was cast upon the beach, but was afterwards floated and saved.

This company, which was not actually floated till 1887, was destined to exercise a disastrous influence upon the fortunes of the state.

In addition to goods thus conveyed, enormous quantities of timber are floated down the Elbe; the Ix.

Teak timber is floated down the rivers to the Madras coast.

I had sat there many times of old before the ship was built that floated his family to America.

Notwithstanding this, much timber is floated down, and the Panlaung is navigable for small boats all the year round.

This was performed with great success, and the vessel was floated off with the evening tide.

The river is navigable for 770 m.; grain and a variety of goods conveyed from the upper Kama are floated down, while furs, fish and other products of the sea are shipped up the river to be transported to Cherdyn on the Kama.

The Onega, which flows into Onega Bay, has rapids; but timber is floated down in spring, and fishing and some navigation are carried on in the lower portion.

The place has an active trade, especially in grain and in the timber floated down from the Black Forest by the Rhine and the Ysel; the industries include tanning, weaving, and oil and paper manufactures.

Scale-mosses are mounted in the same way, or may be floated out in water like sea-weeds, and dried in white blotting paper under strong pressure before gumming on paper, but are best mounted as microscopic slides, care being taken to show the stipules.

Timber is also exported, being floated in large quantities down the Lule.

One of the most interesting features of the Rhine navigation is afforded by the huge rafts of timber that are floated down the river.

The Jews and Armenians are engaged in a brisk trade with Odessa, to which they send corn, wine, spirits and timber, floated down from Galicia, as well as with the interior, to which they send manufactured wares imported from Austria.

As no scaffolding could be used for the centre spans, the girders were built on shore, floated out and raised by hydraulic presses.

Most of the so-called Burma teak exported from Moulmein is floated down from Siamese territory.

The Arab traders in the Levant certainly used a floating compass, as did the Italians before the introduction of the pivoted needle; the magnetized piece of iron being floated upon a small raft of cork or reeds in a bowl of water.

Bonham Carter with two officers and four petty officers had got on a Carley raft and floated down the canal.

Even timber cannot be floated down it without the assistance of elephants.

Most of the weight of the instrument is floated on mercury contained in three troughs (c, c, c) which form part of the cast-iron base.

The difficulties of relief friction could probably be best overcome by a large hollow cylinder concentric with the polar axis fixed near the centre of gravity of the whole instrument and floated in mercury, on the plan adopted in the Mount Wilson 60-in.

Only light boats (galary) are floated down this broad, shallow stream, whose flat and open valley is often inundated.

Its tributary, the Narew (250 m.), brings the forest-lands of Byelovyezh in Grodno into communication with Poland, timber being floated down from Surazh and light boats from Tykocin in Lomza.

Still, large amounts of corn, wool and timber are floated down, especially after its confluence with the Black Hancza.

N., and thence floated down to the seaports on Arosa Bay.

The prosperity of Drammen depends mainly on the timber trade; and saw-milling is an active industry, the logs being floated down the river from the upland forests.

It was encouraged by the news from Italy, where, on the 25th of July, Radetzky had won the battle of Custozza, and on the 6th of August the Austrian standard once more floated over the towers of Milan.

At Skutskar at the mouth of the Dal river are wood-pulp and saw mills, dealing with the large quantities of timber floated down the river; and there are large wood-yards in the suburb of Bomhus.

First of all living things was Re; rid told how he arose as a naked babe from a lotus-flower floated on the primeval ocean Nun.

Timber also is floated down the Dniester.

This float dips into a tank filled with mercury so that practically the entire instrument is floated by the mercury, leaving only sufficient pressure on the bearings to ensure that the pivots will remain in contact with them.