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Synonyms for float
floʊtfloat
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Wiktionary
floatverb
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.
Synonyms:
initial public offering
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Princeton's WordNet
floatnoun
the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
Synonyms:
plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladderfloatnoun
the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
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plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladderice-cream soda, ice-cream float, floatnoun
a drink with ice cream floating in it
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plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladderfloatnoun
an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
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plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladderfloat, plasterer's floatnoun
a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
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plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladderfloatnoun
something that floats on the surface of water
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plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladderair bladder, swim bladder, floatverb
an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
Synonyms:
air bladder, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, plasterer's float, swim bladderfloat, drift, be adrift, blowverb
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"
Synonyms:
swash, rove, vagabond, botch, ramble, bungle, muck up, range, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, stray, blow, tout, burn out, screw up, suck, gasconade, roll, fumble, flub, fellate, cast, ball up, err, freewheel, bollocks, wander, shoot a line, mess up, shove off, waste, louse up, bollocks up, gas, bollix, bluster, vaunt, swan, muff, tramp, blow out, swim, foul up, boast, fluff, drift, bobble, go down on, be adrift, shove along, bollix up, squander, spoil, roam, bodgefloat, swimverb
be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
floatverb
set afloat
"He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
floatverb
circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
"The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
floatverb
move lightly, as if suspended
"The dancer floated across the stage"
floatverb
put into the water
"float a ship"
floatverb
make the surface of level or smooth
"float the plaster"
floatverb
allow (currencies) to fluctuate
"The government floated the ruble for a few months"
floatverb
convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
"float data"
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floatverb
Synonyms:
swim, WAFT, be buoyed upfloatverb
Synonyms:
buoy up, bear up, keep afloat, bear on the surfacefloatnoun
Synonyms:
raft, floating massfloatnoun
Synonyms:
buoyfloatnoun
Synonyms:
float-board
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#605 | range | |
#1119 | gas | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2394 | cast | |
#2540 | blow | |
#2595 | roll | |
#3125 | spread | |
#3373 | suck | |
#3429 | tank | |
#3731 | char | |
#6013 | fleet | |
#6803 | float | |
#6845 | swim | |
#10368 | swan | |
#11353 | err | |
#11779 | drift | |
#17234 | rove | |
#17542 | wander | |
#17634 | tout | |
#17822 | prevail | |
#18651 | stray | |
#20345 | floats | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#23203 | boast | |
#24176 | drown | |
#25040 | tramp | |
#25519 | roam | |
#26652 | chariot | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#27331 | jitter | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30041 | profiler | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#33879 | brag | |
#33911 | muff | |
#34510 | flotation | |
#38590 | ramble | |
#39493 | vagabond | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#57008 | swash | |
#59212 | floater | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#74386 | floatation | |
#80961 | squander | |
#88167 | bluster | |
#101641 | freewheel | |
#104177 | botch | |
#109264 | gasconade | |
#220019 | flub | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#281038 | vaunt | |
#315643 | mishandle |
How to use float in a sentence?
The point is that the company now is doing so well. It just feels like we need to be a public company, our overheads barely went up last year and yet we increased profits by 60 percent. We can do M&A without the money. For now we're just looking at getting the float away.
They tried to switch to a floating foreign exchange regime and it hasn't worked, will they admit that the float has failed and go back to the peg? The main task ... will be to restore credibility of the central bank.
Louisiana FedEx driver Kyra Johnson:
I did feel like I was in a shield, i was in a bubble, that God helped me see everything around me. I didn’t move. I didn’t float up in the air. You know, none of those weird things happened to me. I was just…religious, I felt. Everything was religious around me. I felt we were all covered.
And there's a lot of good ideas and a lot of bad ideas that float through here. But it's, in my view, a misconception of the so-called special interests.
The market's shut for a period of time for anyone who thinks they can float anything, it's going to be a tough economic time, so if you're going to the market it's got to be well priced and it's got to be a good quality business.
Translations for float
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- يطفوArabic
- ҡалҡыуысBashkir
- пла́ваць, папла́ваць, паплы́ць, плыцьBelarusian
- държа се на повърхността, нося се, плавам, буй, поплавък, мистрияBulgarian
- flotarCatalan, Valencian
- plout, plavatCzech
- schwimmen, schweben, gleiten, treiben, begeben, borgen, Schwimmer, Floß, Festwagen, FloatGerman
- φελλόςGreek
- flotar, carrozaSpanish
- شناورPersian
- leijua, kellua, [[pysyä]] [[pinnalla]], lipua, ehdottaa, heittää, yleinen osakeanti, höyläraspi, raspi, paraatiauto, käteiskassa, liukuluku, pohjakassa, koho, kelluke, hierrinFinnish
- flotter, flottant, flotteur, char, float, nombre flottantFrench
- flotarGalician
- lebeg, úszikHungarian
- galleggiareItalian
- 漂う, 飛ぶ, 浮遊する, 超える, 浮かぶ, 浮く, 浮揚物, 浮きJapanese
- អន្ដែតKhmer
- ಫ್ಲೋಟ್Kannada
- 흙손Korean
- fluctuo, floatLatin
- tekėti, plūduriuoti, plaukti, plūdė, plaustasLithuanian
- mānu, kārewaMāori
- امبڠ, ambangMalay
- မျောBurmese
- drijven, vloeien, meedrijven, te water laten, voorstellen, vlot, soort truweel, vlottende kommagetal, rasp, vijl, praalwagenDutch
- flutuar, pairar, boiar, boiaPortuguese
- tuytuy, wamp'uyQuechua
- flottarRomansh
- pluti, plută, plutitorRomanian
- всплыть, [[держа́ться]] [[на]] [[вода, плыть, плавать, всплывать, пари́ть, дре́йфовать, поплаво́к, мастеро́к, платфо́рма, плот, глади́лка, прави́лоRussian
- plovakSerbo-Croatian
- flyta, sväva, flöteSwedish
- తేలుTelugu
- ลอยThai
- 浮动Chinese
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