float
浮动,漂浮,漂浮物,浮动的
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- : to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
- : to move gently on the surface of a liquid; drift along: The canoe floated downstream.
- : to rest or move in a liquid, the air, etc.: a balloon floating on high.
- : to move lightly and gracefully: She floated down the stairs.
- : to move or hover before the eyes or in the mind: Romantic visions floated before his eyes.
- : to pass from one person to another: A nasty rumor about his firm is floating around town.
- : to be free from attachment or involvement.
- : to move or drift about: to float from place to place.
- : to vacillate.
- : to be launched, as a company, scheme, etc.
- : to be allowed to fluctuate freely in the foreign-exchange market instead of being exchanged at a fixed rate.
- : to change periodically according to money-market conditions.
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While the rest of us quarantine at home, influencers will lounge on pool floats, host meet-and-greets with fans, party together.
Near a good halfway point for float trips on the Current River, two sides of this dreamy tiny house in the Ozarks are bordered by Shannondale State Forest.
Achim Randelhoff, an oceanographer at Université Laval in Quebec City, and colleagues deployed autonomous submersible floats in Baffin Bay that can measure photosynthetic activity and algae concentrations underwater.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite water gear that helps me enjoy the remaining hot days, whether that’s taking a canyoneering trip or doing a lazy float with the kids.
If you don’t feel the need for speed, the Super Mable makes a great pool or off-shore float.
In the meantime, Epstein has tried to use his charitable projects to float him back to the top.
You can go as deep as you like, or float about on the surface.
He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.
They haven't been dead long enough to float, but that will come in time.
But miraculously they must float in the heavens so far away from us, their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever.
One frequently wishes to ascertain the specific gravity of quantities of fluid too small to float an urinometer.