Definition: 1. To move slowly on water or in the air. 2. Be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink. 3. The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment. 4. The number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public.
Use 'float' in a sentence:
1. I hope he can help me with float.
2. John was treading the air mechanically, and Michael without knowing how to float was floating.
3. Survivors clung to pieces of floating debris.
4. The Earth's crust is thought to be divided into huge, movable segments, called plates, which float on a soft plastic layer of rock.
5. They float the logs down the river to the towns.
6. All are slowly moving because the plates float on a denser semi-liquid mantle, the layer between the crust and Earth's core.
7. There are still some unfounded fears floating around out there about cancer being contagious.
8. If steel is heavier than water, why are ships able to float on the sea?
9. His decapitated body was found floating in a canal.
10. The company was not financially strong enough to be floated on the Stock Exchange.
11. They'll spend some time floating boats in the creek.
12. It spreads primarily by underground stems; colonies form when pieces of the root system or whole plants float into an area and take root or when seeds float into a suitable area and germinate.
13. A page came loose and floated onto the tiles.
14. Spores light enough to float on the breezes were carried thousands of miles from more ancient lands and deposited at random across the bare mountain flanks.
15. All are slowly moving because the plates float on a denser sem-iliquid mantle, the layer between the crust and Earth's core.
16. "I was below deck, " he said, "a bunch of bananas belonging to other passengers helped me float until I found a lifeboat."
17. Can you float on your back?
18. They floated the trial balloon of actually cutting Social Security.
19. The forward movement, the melting at the base of the glacier where it meets the ocean, and waves and tidal action cause blocks of ice to break off and float out to sea.
20. Float glass is sold by the square metre, and at the final stage computers translate customer requirements into patterns of cuts designed to minimise waste.
21. They will also float if you drop them in the water.
22. They could travel through the air, float in water, and lie dormant for many months.
23. They float around in the oven.
24. 59 per cent of people believed the pound should be allowed to float freely.
25. If the Gulf states move to a single currency, as they plan to in the next few years, that currency should surely float.
26. They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.
27. Saturn has a density of only 0.7 that of water, which means that Saturn would float in water.
28. Scientists wanted to know how red fire ants float.
29. The float process for making flat glass was invented by Alistair Pilkington.
30. They noticed fifty and twenty dollar bills floating in the water.
31. Shares were floated at 585p.
32. Wood floats.
33. They'll give you a whole new perspective on your Minecraft worlds as you float around free as a bird.
34. You can listen to whatever kind of music floats your boat.
35. An idea suddenly floated into my mind.
36. They floated the idea of increased taxes on alcohol.
37. Most float on water only a short time before they tire, sink, and drown.
38. The leaves floated on the water.
39. A plastic bag was floating in the water.
40. There wasn't enough water to float the ship.
41. People seem to float in and out of my life.
42. The canoe floated upside down on the lake.
43. The smell of new bread floated up from the kitchen.
44. The company was floated on the stock market in 2001.
45. He floated his firm on the stock market.
46. If it's made of wood it will float.
47. These plants float on the surface of the water.
48. The white cloud of smoke floated away.
49. A fresh egg will sink and an old egg will float.
