Word Finder - floating

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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.

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The motion of something that floats.

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(in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.

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The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.

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That floats or float.

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floating buoys

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Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.

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In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.

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(of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.

Like floating back to another time.

Panic seized her at the thought of floating through space until her air ran out.

No, Ne'Rin wasn't stupid enough to send her floating around space.

Some guy out on a yacht with his family spotted the body floating in the middle of the bay and hauled it in like Hemingway's fish.

He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating up out of the mist.

She was floating on a cloud, gazing languidly down at mounds and valleys of white sand.

Her gaze dropped to her plate, and she stared at the runny beans and floating rice.

There was a boat floating on the water, and the fragrant lilies were growing all around the boat.

Hunter had interviewed the fisherman who thought he saw a body floating in the bay.

Shouldn't you be floating in the sky somewhere? she asked skeptically.

Darian studied him a moment before his gaze went to the flowers floating from the apple trees.

Yully was floating again.

They continued to watch as the children began tossing small stones at their floating treasure, trying to halt its progress, when the sound of a horn startled them.

Floating in the shocking cold, she oriented herself in the darkness.

He compared his conduct in that great post to that of a man floating down a river and fending off from his vessel, as well as he could, the various obstacles it encountered.

There's a new term floating around; crystal ball search warrant.

Yully opened her eyes, suddenly aware she was floating two feet of the ground.

While he was able to do a lot of things with his power, floating above the ground wasn't one of them.

Pelagohydridae, for the floating polyp Pelagohydra, Dendy, from New Zealand.

There are also ten private graving and floating docks and one public graving dock.

Many of them live on the borders of the Mekong and the great lake, in huts built upon piles or floating rafts.

In 1897 Hamburg was provided with a huge floating dock, 558 ft.

Although Robert Hooke in 1668 and Ignace Pardies in 1672 had adopted a vibratory hypothesis of light, the conception was a mere floating possibility until Huygens provided it with a sure foundation.

Subsequently to the floating off of the entosternite the approximation of the nerve cords took place in the prosoma, and thus they were able to take up a position below the entosternite.

For an account of the courtship and dancing of spiders, of their webs and floating lines, the reader is referred to the works of M'Cook (30) and the Peckhams (31), whilst an excellent account of the nests of trap-door spiders is given by Moggridge (32).

From the roadstead, entrance is by a channel into the outer harbour, which communicates with seven floating basins about 115 acres in area and is accessible to the largest vessels.

In gold, 19,053,861 r (say) Floating indebtedness (a/es current, bills, &c.) Total, not funded, approx.

Mort's dock, another large dry dock, is at Mort's Bay, Balmain, while there are five floating docks with a combined lifting power of 3895 tons, and the three patent slips in Mort's Bay can raise between them 3040 tons.

At Riga there is a floating pontoon bridge over the Diina.

The floating boater is based in Little Venice in the very heart of London.

When the body is floating freely like a ship, the equilibrium of this liquid thrust with the weight of the ship requires that the weight of water displaced is equal to the weight of the ship and the two centres of gravity are in the same vertical line.

Equilibrium and Stability of a Ship or Floating Body.

While the population of Nejef is estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000, there is in addition a very large floating population of pilgrims, who are constantly arriving, bringing corpses in all stages of decomposition and accompanied at times by sick and aged persons, who have come to Nejef to die.

It is the principal waterway of Wurttemberg, and is greatly used for floating down timber.

Lavish expenditure followed and the government was soon anticipating its revenues by obtaining advances from guano consignees, usually on unfavourable terms, and then floating loans.

The Tankas are the boat people or floating population.

In this way was formed a broad disk of earth, floating on the circumambient air.

The harbour is entered from the roads by way of a channel leading to the outer harbour which communicates with a floating basin 22 acres in extent, on the east, and with the older and less commodious portion of the harbour to the north and west of the old town.

The "Floating Island" appears at intervals on the upper portion of the lake near the mouth of the beck.

The so-called water cabbage (Pistia Stratiotes) is a floating plant widely distributed in the tropics, and consisting of rosettes of broadish leaves several inches across and a tuft of roots hanging in the water.

Others are scavengers feeding on decaying organic matter; the pond skaters, for example, live mostly on the juices of dead floating insects.

Until modern times the city was built largely on floating pontoons or on piles at the edges of the innumerable canals and water-courses which formed the thoroughfares, but to meet the requirements of modern life, well-planned roads and streets have been constructed in all directions, crossing the old canals at many points and lined with well-built houses, for the most part of brick, in which the greater part of the erstwhile riparian population now resides.

Hathor, his mother, is persecuted by Typhon and escapes to a floating island with the bones of Horus, who revives and slays the dragon.'

Volcanic dust thrown into the air settles out slowly, and some of the products of submarine and littoral volcanoes, like pumice-stone, possess a remarkable power of floating and may drift into any part of the ocean before they become waterlogged and sink.

Buchanan, which has an arbitrary scale and can be varied in weight by placing small metal rings on the stem so as to depress the scale to any desired depth in sea-water of any salinity, the specific gravity being calculated for each reading by dividing the total weight by the immersed volume; (3) the total immersion areometer, which has no scale and the weight of which can be adjusted so that the instrument can be brought so exactly to the specific gravity of the water sample that it remains immersed, neither floating nor sinking; this has the advantage of 'eliminating the effects of surface tension and in Fridtjof Nansen's pattern is capable of great precision.

In navigation he suggested many new contrivances, such as water-tight compartments, floating anchors to lay a ship to in a storm, and dishes that would not upset during a gale; and beginning in 1757 made repeated experiments with oil on stormy waters.

Lake Xochimilco, celebrated for its chinampas, or "floating gardens,", is supplied very largely by fresh-water springs opening within the lake itself, which the city has partially diverted for its own water supply.

But the waves on the surface of a liquid, which are not of the sound kind, are both longitudinal and transverse, the compound nature being easily seen in watching the motion of a floating particle.

This was partly necessary to meet the uncertain conditions in floating when the distribution of supporting forces was unknown and there were chances of distortion.

The methods of erection may be classed as - (I) erection on staging or falsework; (2) floating to the site and raising; (3) rolling out from one abutment; (4) building out member by member, the completed part forming the stage from which additions are handled.