Found 4 items, similar to Floated.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: float
mengapung
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: float
apung, apung-apung, mengambang, mengapung, pengapung, terkatung-katung
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: float
float
n 1: the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank
and its payment
2: the number of shares outstanding and available for trading
by the public
3: a drink with ice cream floating in it [syn:
ice-cream soda,
ice-cream float]
4: an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a
truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
5: a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and
finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco [syn:
plasterer's float]
6: something that remains on the surface of a liquid
float
v 1: 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” [syn:
drift,
be adrift,
blow]
2: be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink [syn:
swim]
[ant:
sink]
3: set afloat;
“He floated the logs down the river”;
“The boy
floated his toy boat on the pond”
4: circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with;
“The
Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform”
5: move lightly, as if suspended;
“The dancer floated across
the stage”
6: put into the water;
“float a ship”
7: make the surface of level or smooth;
“float the plaster”
8: allow (currencies) to fluctuate;
“The government floated the
ruble for a few months”
9: convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point
notation;
“float data”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Floated
Float
\Float\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Floated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Floating.] [OE. flotien, flotten, AS. flotian to float,
swim, fr. fle['o]tan. See
Float, n.]
1. To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed
up.
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The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground.
--Milton.
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Three blustering nights, borne by the southern
blast,
I floated. --Dryden.
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2. To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to
drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on
the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
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They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the
wind. --Pope.
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There seems a floating whisper on the hills.
--Byron.
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