afloat
suomi-englanti sanakirjaafloat englannista suomeksi
veden varassa, pinnalla, veden varassa oleva, kellumassa, pinnalla oleva
veden vallassa oleva, veden peittämä, veden vallassa
tuuliajolla oleva, tuuliajolla, ajelehtiva
afloat englanniksi
(ux)
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
{{quote-text|en|year=1668|author=John Dryden|title=Sir Martin Mar-all|location=London|publisher=H. Herringman|section=act II|page=22|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36685.0001.001
(RQ:Defoe Robinson Crusoe) I went down to my Boat, got the Water out of her, and got her afloat, loaded all my Cargo in her, and then went Home again for more;
{{quote-text|en|year=1881|author=Christina Rossetti|chapter=De Profundis|title=A Pageant and Other Poems|url=https://archive.org/details/pageantotherpoem00rossrich/page/60/mode/1up?q=afloat|page=60|publisher=Macmillan|location=London
(ant)
(quote-text)|title=Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal, &c.|location=London|publisher=T. Cadell|section=Volume 2, Letter 23, p. 236|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004854575.0001.002
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)
{{quote-book|en|year=1947|author=James Michener|title=Tales of the South Pacific|location=New York|publisher=Dial|year_published=2014|chapter=The Strike|page=315|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=yQBwDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
Floating in the air; flowing freely; not tied, braided, etc. (q)
(RQ:Cleland Fanny Hill)
{{quote-text|en|year=1971|author=Poul Anderson|title=The Broken Sword|url=https://archive.org/details/brokensword00poul/page/11/mode/1up?q=afloat|chapter=4|page=11|publisher=Ballantine Books|year_published=1981|location=New York
(RQ:Smith White Teeth) she roars down the street, dreads and feathers and cape afloat,
Covered with water (bearing floating objects).
(syn)
1695, (w) (translator), ''(w) Britannia,'' London: A. Swalle, “Staffordshire,”http://name.umdl.umich.edu/B18452.0001.001
- (..) it (w) overflows and lays the meadows afloat in April, like another Nile
{{quote-text|en|year=1938|author=Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings|title=The Yearling|url=https://archive.org/details/yearling00rawl/page/233/mode/1up?q=afloat|chapter=19|page=233|publisher=Scribner|location=New York
Covered, overspread (''with'' or ''in'' something).
{{quote-text|en|year=1911|author=D. H. Lawrence|title=The White Peacock|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|section=Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 233|url=https://archive.org/details/whitepeacock00lawr/page/233/mode/1up?q=afloat
{{quote-book|en|year=1935|author=Lucy Maud Montgomery|title=Mistress Pat|location=Sydney|publisher=Angus & Robertson|year_published=1937|page=100|url=https://archive.org/details/mistress-pat-by-montgomery/page/100/mode/1up?q=afloat
(quote-text)|location=New York|publisher=Farrar Straus Giroux|section=Part 1, p. 51|url=https://archive.org/details/dubinslives00mala/page/51/mode/1up?q=afloat
Having enough money to continue to operate; (''of a private individual, family, etc.'') able to pay one's expenses, able to keep one's head above water. (q)
(quote-text) upon the New Testament|location=London|publisher=Edward Whitchurche|section=Volume 2, (w) 4|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68942.0001.001
{{quote-book|en|year=1753|author=Tobias Smollett|title=The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Mundell & Son|year_published=1800|chapter=54|pages=306–307|url=https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouswor04smoliala/page/307/mode/1up?q=afloat
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) the price poor Jos Osborne had paid for her two horses was in itself sufficient to keep their little establishment afloat for a year, at least;
(quote-book)
{{quote-text|en|year=2010|author=Nadifa Mohamed|title=Black Mamba Boy|url=https://archive.org/details/blackmambaboy00moha/page/67/mode/1up?q=afloat|page=67|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|location=New York
Being believed or discussed by many people; being passed from person to person.
(quote-book)|volume=3|publisher=(w)|page=298|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68202.0001.001
{{quote-text|en|year=1757|author=William Burke; Edmund Burke|title=An Account of the European Settlements in America|location=London|publisher=R. and J. Dodsley|section=Volume 2, Part 7, Chapter 4, p. 150|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004909745.0001.002
{{quote-book|en|year=1878|author=Thomas Hardy|title=The Return of the Native|location=London|publisher=Smith, Elder|volume=2|chapter=5|page=163|url=https://archive.org/details/returnofnative02hard/page/163/mode/1up?q=afloat
{{quote-text|en|year=1945|author=Evelyn Waugh|title=Brideshead Revisited|location=London|publisher=Chapman & Hall|section=Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 243|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208486/page/n245/mode/1up?q=afloat
Stimulated, aroused.
{{quote-book|en|year=1769|author=Elizabeth Griffith|title=The School for Rakes|location=London|publisher=T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, Epilogue|page=92|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004795556.0001.000
{{quote-book|en|year=1794|author=Thomas Holcroft|title=The Adventures of Hugh Trevor|location=London|publisher=Shepperson and Reynolds|volume=1|chapter=6|page=46|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004841298.0001.001
{{quote-book|en|year=1821|author=William Hazlitt|title=Table-Talk|location=London|publisher=John Warren, Essay 1|page=3|url=https://archive.org/details/tabletalkororigi00hazluoft/page/n14/mode/1up?q=afloat
In a state of confusion or bewilderment.
1789, (w), letter to (w) dated August 1789, in ''Miscellaneous Works,'' London: A. Strahan ''al.,'' 1796, p.(nbs)201,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004849601.0001.001
- I know not what to say; my mind is all afloat; yet you will not reproach me with caprice or inconstancy.
{{quote-book|en|year=1878|author=John Berwick Harwood|title=Helena Lady Harrogate,|location=London|publisher=Richard Bentley|volume=1|chapter=17|page=312|url=https://archive.org/details/helenaladyharro01harwgoog/page/n325/mode/1up?q=afloat
{{quote-book|en|year=1887|author=Harry Castlemon|title=Our Fellows|location=Philadelphia|publisher=John C. Winston|chapter=1|page=10|url=https://archive.org/details/ourfellowsorskir00cast/page/9/mode/1up?q=afloat
Floating on.
early 1600s, (w) and (w), ''(w),'' London: Thomas Johnson, 1661, Act(nbs)I, Scene(nbs)1,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62477.0001.001
- But Huswife, as for you, / You with your Brat, wee’l send afloat the Main,
(quote-book)|title=The Troublesome Life and Raigne of King Henry the Third|location=London|publisher=George Lindsey|page=5|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80662.0001.001