English-Spanish translations for float

• flotar
  La libertad de investigación y enseñanza no significa flotar en un vacío, sino implicarse en la sociedad y el mundo del empleo. Freedom of research and teaching does not mean floating in a vacuum, but being involved in society and the world of employment.
  Como periodista, experimenté de primera mano el importante caso de piratería a bordo del crucero cerca del Pireo, cuando vi flotar en el agua brazos y piernas amputadas. As a journalist, I experienced at first hand the major case of piracy on board the cruise ship outside Piraeus, when I saw arms and legs amputated and floating in the water.
• carroza

Definition of float

• Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface
• To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density
• To be capable of floating
• To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating
• To drift or wander aimlessly
• To drift gently through the air
• To move in a fluid manner
• To circulate
• To be viable
• To propose for consideration
• To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change
• To allow to be determined by the markets
• To extend a short-term loan to
• To issue or sell shares in a company to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange
• To spread plaster over , using the tool called a float
• To use a float upon
• To transport by float#Noun|float (vehicular trailer
• To cause to float above or beside others
• A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid
• A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft
• A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades
• An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant
• A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float
• Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid
• An offering of shares in a company to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange
• The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account
• Premiums taken in but not yet paid out
• A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double
• A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it
• A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made
• One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work
• a lowboy trailer
• The act of flowing; flux; flow
• A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep
• A polishing block used in marble working; a runner
• A coal cart
• A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands

Examples

• The boat floated on the water.
• The oil floated on the vinegar.
• to float a boat
• That boat doesn’t float.
• Oil floats on vinegar.
• I’d love to just float downstream.
• I’m not sure where they went... they’re floating around here somewhere.
• Images from my childhood floated through my mind.
• The balloon floated off into the distance.
• The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.
• Theres a rumour floating around the office that Jan is pregnant.
• That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float.
• I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
• The yen floats against the dollar.
• The government floated the pound in January.
• Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.
• Could you float me $50 until payday?
• It is time to float this horses teeth.
• Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
• When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
• That float covered in roses is very pretty.
• Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
• No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
• We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.
• That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.
• Its true - I dont consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float.

Related words

• floating
• floats
• floatplane
• afloat
• floater
• floatation
• refloat
• nonfloatable
• floatable