float
float
englanti
kelluke, ponttooni
koho
lautta, ponttooni
eläintiede|anatomia|k=en uimarakko
jäätelösooda
liiketalous|k=en pörssikaupankäynnin kohteena olevat osakkeet
tietotekniikka|k=en liukuluku
BrE|k=en (usein sähkökäyttöinen) jakeluajoneuvo (t. -kärry)
paraatissa tms. käytettävä ajoneuvo lavalla olevine iskulauseineen t. muine esityksineen
(rakennustekniikka) hierrin, hierrinlasta
Esimerkkejä float sanan käytöstä:
What could be more British than the milk float delivering bottles of milk to peoples front doors.
The students built a float for the homecoming parade.
The formerly ubiquitous image of Stalin disappeared from the floats in the Khrushchev era.
Liittyvät sanat: afloat
Synonyymisanakirja: float
float
artefakti, teennös, esine, koho, esitys, esittäminen, kelluke, näytöslava, pelastusliivi.
Riimisanakirja: float
float rimmaa näiden kanssa:
trenchcoat...
Käännökset: float
float suomeksi
näytöslava, kelluke, juoma, uittaa, leijailla
float englanniksi
puhekieltä 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.
The boat floated on the water.
The oil floated on the vinegar.
puhekieltä To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density
to float a boat
puhekieltä To be capable of floating.
That boat doesn’t float.
Oil floats on vinegar.
puhekieltä To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating
I’d love to just float downstream.
puhekieltä To drift or wander aimlessly.
I’m not sure where they went... they’re floating around here somewhere.
Images from my childhood floated through my mind.
puhekieltä To drift gently through the air.
The balloon floated off into the distance.
puhekieltä To move in a fluid manner.
The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.
puhekieltä (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float.
puhekieltä To propose (an idea) for consideration.
I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
puhekieltä To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
puhekieltä (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.
The yen floats against the dollar.
puhekieltä To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
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.
puhekieltä To extend a short-term loan to.
Could you float me $50 until payday?
puhekieltä To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
2005 June 21, Dewi Cooke, (w) http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/shoemaker-strides-for-world-domination/2005/06/20/1119250927926.html?from=moreStories,
2007, Jonathan Reuvid, Floating Your Company: The Essential Guide to Going Public.
2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, footnote i, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QxlLztBtavEC&pg=PA269&dq=%22floated%22 %22floating%22+shares+OR+company+OR+corporate+OR+corporation+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QJ5UT_jAI-_0mAXSvvSqCg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22floated%22|%22floating%22%20shares%20OR%20company%20OR%20corporate%20OR%20corporation%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 269,
puhekieltä To use a float (tool).
It is time to float this horses teeth.''
puhekieltä To perform a floatNoun float.
A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
A float board.
A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float.
An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
That float covered in roses is very pretty.
puhekieltä A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
1913, w:D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence, s:Sons_and_Lovers Sons and Lovers, s:Sons and Lovers/Chapter VII|chapter 7
puhekieltä Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
puhekieltä An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
2006, You dont actually need a broker to buy shares in a float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. — w:Australian Securities and Investments Commission|Australian Securities and Investments Commission financial tips article, Buying shares in a float'' http://www.fido.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/print/Buying+shares+in+a+float?opendocument
puhekieltä The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
puhekieltä Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
We make a lot of interest from our nightly float.
puhekieltä A floating-point number.
That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.
A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
Its true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float.''
A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.
puhekieltä A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffVerb bluffing after a subsequent community card.
puhekieltä One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
puhekieltä a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination
puhekieltä a lowboy trailer
puhekieltä A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.
(rfquotek)
puhekieltä 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.
puhekieltä A coal cart.
A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.