float
1. the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
• Hypernyms:
time interval, interval
2. the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
• Hypernyms:
stock
3. a drink with ice cream floating in it
• Syn:
ice-cream soda, ice-cream float
• Hypernyms:
drink
• Hyponyms:
root beer float
4. an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
• Hypernyms:
display, presentation
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
• Hypernyms:
hand tool
6. something that floats on the surface of water
• Derivationally related forms:
floaty
• Hypernyms:
artifact, artefact
• Hyponyms:
bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat, chip,
life preserver, preserver, flotation device, pontoon, raft
7. an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
• Syn:
air bladder, swim bladder
• Hypernyms:
sac
1. be in motion due to some air or water current (Freq. 14)
- 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
• Derivationally related forms:
blow (for: blow), drift (for: drift)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
waft, tide, stream
• Verb Group:
drift
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
2. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
swim
• Ant:
sink
• Derivationally related forms:
swim (for: swim), floating, floater, floatation, flotation
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
buoy
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- These cars won't float
3. set afloat (Freq. 3)
- He floated the logs down the river
- The boy floated his toy boat on the pond
• Derivationally related forms:
floatation, flotation
• Hypernyms:
transport
• Hyponyms:
tide, drift, refloat
• Verb Group:
swim
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- The girls float the wooden sticks
4. circulate or discuss tentatively;
test the waters with
- The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform
• Hypernyms:
test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
5. move lightly, as if suspended
- The dancer floated across the stage
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
ride
• Verb Group:
drift, be adrift, blow, swim
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
6. put into the water
- float a ship
• Derivationally related forms:
floatation, flotation
• Hypernyms:
launch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
7. make the surface of level or smooth
- float the plaster
• Topics:
masonry
• Hypernyms:
smooth, smoothen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
8. allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- The government floated the ruble for a few months
• Hypernyms:
value
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
9. convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
- float data
• Hypernyms:
convert, change over
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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