(adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
(adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
(adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.
Example Sentences:
(1) But still she has struggled to keep the business afloat, charging monthly fees of between 1,000 and 1,300 yuan depending on the level of care needed.
(2) The EU, ECB and IMF, the troika of bodies keeping the debt-stricken Greek economy afloat, have signalled in no uncertain terms that they want some €8bn of the nearly €12bn package to come from pension and pay cuts, arguing that this will be the fastest way to get the best results.
(3) Each student brings £4,000 of funding, which keeps the college afloat.
(4) Never mind Tory spending cuts; they would be dwarfed by the SNP cuts necessary to keep the Scottish economy afloat in the radically altered market conditions we now face.” But despite “that rational evisceration of the SNP’s economic policies”, polls showed support for the SNP was now higher than at the time of the referendum.
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
(7) Most British shipping companies maintain comprehensive medical services both ashore and afloat which are concerned with not only treatment but also preventive medicine.
(8) She shares her conflicted instincts, the personal frustration, the gritted teeth effort to stay afloat when the team was coming apart ... a declaration a lot of women will recognise: “I felt I could hold things together.” The eventual decision that the show could no longer stay afloat.
(9) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
(10) This will be a damaging blow to many local shops who are struggling to stay afloat.
(11) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
(12) The low cost of a base in Hull should help him and the colleagues he sub-contracts to keep afloat, along with a working wife – although the voluntary sector resource centre she runs is also under severe financial pressure – and children in their twenties who have left home and got jobs.
(13) "The UK deficit is the result of vital government action to keep the economy afloat and prevent the levels of unemployment, business closures and repossessions seen in previous recessions."
(14) With European taxpayers already irate that Greece will need yet more funds to keep afloat, the €130bn financial support load had previously been seen as a red line across which no EU government was willing to step.
(15) "Now the government is making the political choice to cut public services that will hit the poorest hardest rather than force the banks to change how they operate and repay those who kept them afloat."
(16) Aides close to Tsipras insisted that Athens had little desire to “seek enemies abroad” but the leftist leader had a duty to disclose the details of last month’s dramatic negotiations with creditors to keep the bankrupt country afloat.
(17) In the future being adaptable, able to learn how to learn, rather than learn how to remember, will be the only way of staying afloat in a swirling labour market.
(18) "It is food that is aimed for the thousands of Greek families blighted by the genocidal policies of the memorandum," said the party, referring to the loan agreement Athens has signed with international creditors to keep the debt-crippled country afloat.
(19) Map Greece has spent roughly €280m (£215m) handling the refugee crisis since the start of 2015 – money the debt-stricken country, dependent on emergency bailout loans to keep afloat, has struggled to find.
(20) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.
Undirected
Definition:
(a.) Not directed; not guided; left without direction.
(a.) Not addressed; not superscribed, as a letter.
(a.) Misdirected; misled; led astray.
Example Sentences:
(1) To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach tRNA was represented as a simple undirected graph containing all relevant information represented in the usual cloverleaf secondary structure and nine base-base tertiary interactions.
(2) All three agonist stimulated release of the secretory protein lactoperoxidase, but only carbachol significantly accelerated Na+ undirectional influx.
(3) She went straight into the theatre, where she earned a reputation for being headstrong and undirectable.
(4) In vitro, exposure of the mucosal side of the isolated canine gastric mucosa to 5, 10, and 20 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for 1 h or of 1 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for longer than 1 h resulted in marked permeability changes, i.e., increases in the undirectional fluxes of Na+ and Cl-, as well as inhibition of net ion fluxes.
(5) More than 25% of undirected percutaneous liver needle biopsies that are performed in search of metastatic neoplasms yield false negative specimens.
(6) The data obtained suggest the possibility of reflex activation of the anticoagulating system by beta-thrombin or undirectly by alpha-thrombin generated by beta-thrombin activation at early stages of blood coagulation.
(7) The role of both SFFV- and F-MuLV-specific antigens in the neutralization of SFFV suggests that this defective virus could be an antigenic mosaic and that viruses in the FV complex may participate in a undirectional form of phenotypic mixing.
(8) Studies of the undirectional influxes of Na andCl indicate that acetazolamide inhibits the neutral, coupled NaCl influx process at the mucosal membranes.
(9) ENG was found to be abnormal in 49 (39%) of the patients: 19 with unilateral vestibular hyporeactivity, eight with directional preponderance, 12 with spontaneous or undirectional positional nystagmus, eight with abnormal smooth pursuit, and 13 with other abnormalities.
(10) By a rapid, undirectional, unfiltered and yet non-injurious process, plasma exudates cross the mucosal lining to appear on the airway surface at the site of challenge.
(11) Creatine-phosphorylcreatine system operates as a undirectional shuttle for approximately P and as a control system regulating energy production according to demand.
(12) The drainage is strictly undirectional: ventralward by the anterior, middle and posterior ventromedial, the posteromedial and posterolateral hypothalamic veins, all ending in the basal vein.
(13) Addition of 0.5 mM NH4+ to the basolateral side when the mucosal side was bathed in mock urine (2 mM NaCl) significantly increased undirectional mucosal-to-serosal Na+ flux, and the increase was blocked by mucosally added amiloride.
(14) These behaviors in a thermal gradient represent true thermokinetic responses for an organism with undirectional locomotion.
(15) As there was no apparent cell membrane leakage or rupture of duct lumina, it is concluded that the acinar cells adjacent to fat necrosis release their granules by undirected basolateral extrusion.
(16) This characteristic caused introduction of a high frequency of undirectional transversions, A-T leads to -CG, into the DNA of the strain harboring it.
(17) PEGG inhibited undirectional MLR by acting on the stimulating cells.
(18) They have received relatively little attention in the context of subjective awareness of a undirectional dimension of time, and then mainly in relation to nonhuman sensorimotor rhythms and hippocampal theta waves.
(19) The undirectional movement of sodium and water into the lumen of the colon also increased but to a lesser extent.
(20) Use of the most recessive genotype as a reference point causes all of the contributions of single loci to be undirectional and positive, and all the allelic and nonallelic interactions to be unidirectional and negative, in accord with our Model 2.2.