floated
past simple and past participle offloat
| 单词 | floated |
| 释义 | floated past simple and past participle offloat float verb uk/fləʊt/us/floʊt/floatverb(NOT SINK)B1[I] tostayon thesurfaceof aliquidand notsink: Anemptybottlewill float. You can float veryeasilyin/onthe Dead Sea because it's sosalty.
Staying afloat, capsizing & sinking
floatverb(MOVE)B1[IorT,usually+ adv/prep] to (causeto)moveeasilythrough, or along thesurfaceof aliquid, or to (causeto)moveeasilythroughair: Wespentalazyafternoonfloatingdown/alongtheriver. Hetossedthebottleinto thewavesandwatchedit floatout tosea. Thechildrenenjoyfloatingtheirboatsonthepondin thepark. Fluffywhitecloudswere floatingacrossthesky. figurativeThesoundof piano-playing floated out through theopenwindow. to move slowly
[Iusually+ adv/prep]literary tomovesmoothlyandattractively: Shesortof floats around, like aballetdancer. [Iusually+ adv/prep] tomoveoractwithoutpurpose: Since helosthisjob, he's just floatedaround/aboutdoing nothing.
Movement on or through water
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Movement through the air Slow and moving slowly Passive and not working floatverb(SUGGEST)[T] tosuggestaplanor anideato beconsidered: Laura has floated theideathat we shouldthinkaboutexpandingintoEuropenextyear. Suggestions & proposals
floatverb(CHANGE VALUE)[IorT]finance & economicsspecialized toallowthevalueof a country'smoneytochangeaccordingto thevalueof othercountries'money: Argentinadecidedtoletitscurrencyfloatfreelyagainst thedollar. Economics
floatverb(BUSINESS)[T] tostartsellingsharesin abusinessorcompanyfor the firsttime Success & failure in business
Idiomsbe floating on air floatsomeone'sboat floatsomeonea loan Phrasal verbfloat around Examplesoffloatedfloated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The second consisted of companies which werefloatedspecifically to funnel lucrative government contracts on commission, or in anticipation of bank loans that never materialised. From theCambridge English Corpus Pieces of the false keelfloatedto the surface, but the ship was quickly refloated and found not to be leaking. From theCambridge English Corpus The piece of ice changed direction andfloatedto the firm land. From theCambridge English Corpus The wood was cut from trees near the village, and thenfloateddown river to the village site. From theCambridge English Corpus He was sitting in the metal desk chair from the plant office and the chairfloated. From theCambridge English Corpus The ideas generallyfloatedin 1946 at the defence science conference had at last come to fruition. From theCambridge English Corpus On the opposite shore, however, the water was 'like indigo and oil slickfloatedon the surface'. From theCambridge English Corpus At the late stage, the effect was diminished and the bubble frontfloatedin its asymptotic velocity. From theCambridge English Corpus Humans have created their own freedom as cultural cooperativists, meaning that the structure of human freedom has long sincefloatedfree of its biological base. From theCambridge English Corpus Early in the eighth month of 1852, a large number of dead fishfloatedto the surface of the inlet near the construction site. From theCambridge English Corpus Solutions are ideasfloatedby specialists in narrow policy communities looking for a problem to solve. From theCambridge English Corpus With this sequence of assembly steps, the substructure will befloated, as opposed to the wing panels beingfloated. From theCambridge English Corpus He alsofloatedthe idea of giving tenants of private houses the same right to buy as might be given to council tenants. From theCambridge English Corpus All isfloated, that is, displaced from the noun phrase the phonologists, adjacent to which it appears in the canonical (2). From theCambridge English Corpus The biggest growth has been in the number of private nursery chains, some of which have beenfloatedon the stock market. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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