Float

[fləʊt] or [flot]

解釋/意思:

(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.) the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public.

(noun.) the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment.

(verb.) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; 'float data'.

(verb.) allow (currencies) to fluctuate; 'The government floated the ruble for a few months'.

(verb.) make the surface of level or smooth; 'float the plaster'.

(verb.) put into the water; 'float a ship'.

(verb.) move lightly, as if suspended; 'The dancer floated across the stage'.

(verb.) set afloat; 'He floated the logs down the river'; 'The boy floated his toy boat on the pond'.

(verb.) 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.) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; 'The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform'.

校對:内奥米--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.

(v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

(v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.

(v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.

(v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

(v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).

(v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.

(v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

(v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.

(v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

(v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

(v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

(v. i.) A coal cart.

(v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.

(n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.

(v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

(v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

(v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.

校對:马特

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Swim, WAFT, be buoyed up.

v. a. Buoy up, bear up, keep afloat, bear on the surface.

n. [1]. Raft, floating mass.[2]. Buoy.[3]. Float-board.

哈洛錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Swim, spread, prevail

ANT:Sink, drown, die, founder, vanish

希勒尔錄入

解釋/意思:

v.i. to swim on a liquid: to be buoyed up: to move lightly and irregularly: to circulate as a rumour: to drift about aimlessly.—v.t. to cause to swim: to cover with water: to set agoing.—n. anything swimming on water: a raft: the cork or quill on a fishing-line: a plasterer's trowel.—adj. Float′able.—ns. Float′age Flot′age the floating capacity of a thing: anything that floats; Float′-board a board on the rim of an undershot water-wheel on which the water acts and moves the wheel; Float′er.—adj. Float′ing swimming: not fixed: circulating.—n. action of the verb float: the spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.—ns. Float′ing-batt′ery a vessel or hulk heavily armed used in the defence of harbours or in attacks on marine fortresses; Float′ing-bridge a bridge of rafts or beams of timber lying on the surface of the water; Float′ing-dock (see Dock); Float′ing-is′land an aggregation of driftwood roots &c. capable of bearing soil floated out from a river delta or the like; Float′ing-light a ship bearing a light moored on sunken rocks to warn seamen of danger.—adv. Float′ingly.—n. Float′-stone a porous sponge-like variety of quartz so light as to float for a while on water.—adj. Float′y.

編輯:珀尔