Float

Helium balloons float in air, while air-filled balloons don't.

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.

Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, / Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide, / Over the dense-pack’d cities all and the teeming wharves and ways, / I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.

The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.

There's 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.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, also floated the idea of turning Canada into a U.S. state, said he would demand far higher defense spending from NATO allies and promised to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

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?

"Peg out a claim wherever you like and we will float it," was the substance of many a code of instructions sent by unprincipled men in the mining world of the colonies to the gold prospectors in Port Darwin.

He [Mario Moretti Polegato] floated the company on the Milan Stock Exchange last December and sold 29 per cent of its shares, mostly to American investors.

2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i, page 269, As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.

This wire, nailed over the face of the old plaster will also reinforce any loose lath or plaster after the walls have set. Float the wall to the face of the lath first.

It is time to float this horse's teeth.

To get the footer acting right, you need to float it and clear it on both margins.

You can't just close the drawer, log in to the till and start serving customers, telling them you're only taking card payments and that they should gonto another till if they're paying in cash. The till needs to be floated first, so ask the manager on the headset if you can use it and she'll float it and let you know when you can start serving.

Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.

'What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. 'Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'

When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.

That float covered in roses is very pretty.

As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm.

Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.

You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

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.

If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.

I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice cream to be a "real" float.

I knew that a simple float on the surface of the Merino might catch if I made it big enough to show very much.

The appearance of a waffle fabric changes drastically with washing. Yarns differ, but most relax and twist and curl in the long floats when washed; the severe rectilinear design of the waffle cells in unwashed waffle weave fabric will soften dramatically.

Rod Basket with Serpentine Floats

Hee being now in Float for Treasure.

The machinery consists of two saws, a polishing table, a float for grinding marble, and a ripping saw for cutting slabs.

Float Machinist— One who squares up, faces, noses or chamfers on a float all marble, slate, or similar stones, and including terrazzo or similar compositions.

Next , finishers rub a float — a small and smooth, rectangular piece of wood — over the entire surface, carefully avoiding edges and joints.

Floated: Obtained by successive passages with a wooden float on the coat's surface until it is flat and uniform

Because margin floats don't collapse together, the actual spacing between two floats sitting next to each other will be 6 pixels […]

When a float cannot fit next to another float, it moves down below it. A float's position, size, padding, borders, and margins affect the position of adjacent floats and adjacent inline content.