Float
verb
To move slowly on water or in the air in a way that is not controlled.
The boat was floating down the river.
noun
A platform on wheels that is used in parades.
The children loved the colourful floats in the parade.
noun
A type of tool for applying plaster.
We'll need a float to apply plaster smoothly on the walls.
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Technical
verb
To put something on water and let it move.
She floated a paper boat on the pond.
verb
To offer an idea or plan to others to see their reaction.
The company floated the proposal of merging with a rival firm.
verb
To start selling shares in a company to the public.
The company was floated on the stock exchange last year.
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Technical
noun
A small device attached to a fishing line that goes under water when a fish bites.
Keep a close eye on the float - when it dips, you've got a bite!
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To move slowly on water or in the air in a way that is not controlled.
The boat was floating down the river.
noun
A platform on wheels that is used in parades.
The children loved the colourful floats in the parade.
noun
A type of tool for applying plaster.
We'll need a float to apply plaster smoothly on the walls.
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To put something on water and let it move.
She floated a paper boat on the pond.
verb
To offer an idea or plan to others to see their reaction.
The company floated the proposal of merging with a rival firm.
verb
To start selling shares in a company to the public.
The company was floated on the stock exchange last year.
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small device attached to a fishing line that goes under water when a fish bites.
Keep a close eye on the float - when it dips, you've got a bite!
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 7
Pro Tip 1/2Uncontrolled Movement
Used when describing items moving on their own without guidance or direction.
Leaves were floating on the breeze.
Pro Tip 2/2Relaxed Feeling
Conveys a sense of calmness or serenity when moving smoothly through water or air.
On vacation, I love watching the clouds float by.
Pro Tip 1/2Uncontrolled Movement
Used when describing items moving on their own without guidance or direction.
Leaves were floating on the breeze.
Pro Tip 2/2Relaxed Feeling
Conveys a sense of calmness or serenity when moving smoothly through water or air.
On vacation, I love watching the clouds float by.
Pro Tip 1/2Uncontrolled Movement
Used when describing items moving on their own without guidance or direction.
Leaves were floating on the breeze.
Pro Tip 2/2Relaxed Feeling
Conveys a sense of calmness or serenity when moving smoothly through water or air.
On vacation, I love watching the clouds float by.
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Right now, it might just look like a few floating balls, but before long, this technology could change your life, or maybe even save it. Imagine if your doctor could move things around in your body without surgery and without scalpels Say, delivering a capsule of medicine to a specific spot, breaking up kidney stones,
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enhance shelf life, and provide a variety of milk products. In the dairy, centrifugation machines spin milk at high speeds, forcing less dense fats to separate from the liquid and float up. After being skimmed off, this fat, known as butterfat, can be used in dairy products like butter, cream,
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and while I was out there floating, I started to get a little bit nervous. Actually, I was totally freaking out -- -- and I was borderline hypothermic, and my friends eventually had to help me out of the water. And I don't know if it was delirium setting in or what,
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Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
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carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen
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tradition as fat tuesday approaches warehouses throughout the city come to life float dens as they are called house the floats that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to construct it can take a month or more to build and
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Even if it's freezing outside! You can't carry anything, including your wallet and keys, otherwise people would just see your wallet and keys floating around. Drivers and people on the street can't see you either,
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what is truth to one person is often untruth to another person so is it an elephant charging ahead is it a butterfly floating along is it a elephant weighing down or being lifted up is it strong is it
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Once navigators neared their destination, other clues, such as the flight patterns of birds, floating debris or vegetation, and types of fish in the area helped determine the proximity of land.
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is a rather more complex and sinister creature the portuguese manor war it floats with the help of a gas-filled
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
Right now, it might just look like a few floating balls, but before long, this technology could change your life, or maybe even save it. Imagine if your doctor could move things around in your body without surgery and without scalpels Say, delivering a capsule of medicine to a specific spot, breaking up kidney stones,
Video examples
The science of milk -...
enhance shelf life, and provide a variety of milk products. In the dairy, centrifugation machines spin milk at high speeds, forcing less dense fats to separate from the liquid and float up. After being skimmed off, this fat, known as butterfat, can be used in dairy products like butter, cream,
Video examples
Chris Burkard: The joy...
and while I was out there floating, I started to get a little bit nervous. Actually, I was totally freaking out -- -- and I was borderline hypothermic, and my friends eventually had to help me out of the water. And I don't know if it was delirium setting in or what,
Video examples
How computer memory...
Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
Video examples
How a single-celled...
carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen
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Celebrating Mardi Gras...
tradition as fat tuesday approaches warehouses throughout the city come to life float dens as they are called house the floats that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to construct it can take a month or more to build and
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If superpowers were...
Even if it's freezing outside! You can't carry anything, including your wallet and keys, otherwise people would just see your wallet and keys floating around. Drivers and people on the street can't see you either,
Video examples
Re-adapting to Indian...
what is truth to one person is often untruth to another person so is it an elephant charging ahead is it a butterfly floating along is it a elephant weighing down or being lifted up is it strong is it
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How did Polynesian...
Once navigators neared their destination, other clues, such as the flight patterns of birds, floating debris or vegetation, and types of fish in the area helped determine the proximity of land.
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The Deadly Portuguese...
is a rather more complex and sinister creature the portuguese manor war it floats with the help of a gas-filled
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There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.
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The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts.
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American Writer
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
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Nina Nesbitt
Scottish Musician
I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
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Cher
American Musician
I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
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Caris LeVert
American Basketball Player
I do things like the float tank, which helps me get into that mindframe of calmness. I take that really seriously.
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Kelsea Ballerini
American Musician
Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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Dominick Cruz
American Athlete
I think we are here to challenge ourselves and make ourselves better people and not just sit around in the world simply floating through life. You should be trying to do something great and making yourself better. You should be trying to evolve. That's what I'm trying to do, and that is very important to me.
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Rihanna
American Musician
There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.
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Catherynne M. Valente
American Writer
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free.
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Evan Daugherty
American Writer
The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts.
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Dave Eggers
American Writer
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
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Nina Nesbitt
Scottish Musician
I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
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Cher
American Musician
I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
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Caris LeVert
American Basketball Player
I do things like the float tank, which helps me get into that mindframe of calmness. I take that really seriously.
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Kelsea Ballerini
American Musician
Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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