(v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
(v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
(v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
(v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
(v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
(v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
(v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
(v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
(v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
(v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
(v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
(v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
(v. i.) A coal cart.
(v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
(n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
(n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
(v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
(v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
(v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
(v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few free-floating cells could be observed in the lumen of this intermediate portion, most of which were macrophages.
(2) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(3) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(4) Type II cells cultured on floating feeder layers in medium containing 1% CS-rat serum and 10(-5) M hydrocortisone plus 0.5 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP exhibited significantly increased incorporation of [14C]acetate into total lipids (238% of control).
(5) Nonetheless some strange theories have been floated.
(6) Lymphocytes with low floating density lyse NK-sensitive target cells and leukemic B-lymphocytes, increase the lytic activity with respect to blasts of K-562 line under the effect of alpha-interferon.
(7) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(9) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(10) See kajakkompaniet.se and langholmenkajak.se for information Swimming, Liljeholmsbadet Stockholmers swim all year round at the floating bath on lake Mälaren in Hornstull on Södermalm.
(11) Two hundred six floating fusions were performed, of which 184 were available for follow-up.
(12) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
(13) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
(14) In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos.
(15) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(16) In heavily mineralized bone matrix, the periodic pattern of collagen fibrils was retained, and the electron density of mineralized matrix in freeze-substituted and unstained sections which had been floated on ethylene glycol was greater than that encountered in sections processed in aqueous reagents.
(17) SCLC variant lines could further be divided into (a) biochemical variant lines having variant biochemical profile but retaining typical SCLC morphology and growth characteristics; and (b) morphological variant (SCLC-MV) lines having variant biochemical profile, altered morphology (features of large cell undifferentiated carcinoma) and altered growth characteristics (growth as loosely attached floating aggregates, relatively short doubling times and cloning efficiencies).
(18) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(19) Comparative lipid-binding studies with dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine gave complexes for native and synthetic apoprotein which floated at the same density after ultracentrifugation in KBr gradients and had virtually the same lipid:protein ratios.
(20) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
Pageant
Definition:
(n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
(n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
(a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
(v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
(2) Entwistle's chances were at one stage thought to have diminished in the wake of the much-criticised BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, which came under his responsibility.
(3) "What happened with the river pageant for the diamond jubilee was the result of the BBC's understandable anxiety that it should not come across as an institution more often than it has to.
(4) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(5) They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.” Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trump piñata .
(6) As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet , and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies.
(7) Almost two months later and a day into the war, Trump declared on Fox News: “It looks like a tremendous success, from a military standpoint.” The day after that, in a San Antonio Express interview found by FactCheck.org , Trump said “ war is depressing ” and encouraged people to watch a beauty pageant.
(8) The video also features photos with Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali and a number of beauty pageant queens.
(9) Not with a song booted out into the world without pageant or fanfare.
(10) And Brand might be a hypocrite if he had bought an entire council estate of his own down the road, in some dodgy local government deal, and was on the verge of moving in the demolition trucks and turning it into a condo with a Miss World pageant on the roof.
(11) Entering Nepal’s first Miss Pink transgender beauty pageant in 2007 changed everything,” she says.
(12) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
(13) Sunday's Thames pageant had a quarter-hour peak of 11.9 million viewers (61%) from 4.15pm, while on Tuesday the carriage procession had a peak of 7.4 million (45.4%) in the 15 minutes from 3.15pm, when the Queen appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.
(14) This tawdry friendship of convenience, these pageants, lies and unethical compromises, may benefit Cameron and Xi, but they are an insult to the citizens of Britain, who cherish their hard-fought freedoms, and to those in China , who are still struggling courageously to achieve them.
(15) Univision said last week it would not air the 12 July pageant because of what it called insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants made by Trump when he announced he was running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
(16) Swift deserves critique for her brand of feminism, which is part friendship-as-beauty-pageant mixed with individualism on steroids.
(17) It took £27m and 7,500 volunteers to make last night's pageant, but one man to envisage the possibilities and transform them into reality.
(18) The letter to Carusone hints at Trump's litigious past, urging him to "look no further than former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, who just last week found herself on the wrong side of a $5m judgment in favour of Mr Trump after falsely stating in the press that the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was both "fixed" and "trashy".
(19) Some were deposited from Bristol and elsewhere in the middle of the night before the pageant, and told to camp beneath London Bridge.
(20) In one of the defining moments of the opening debate, Clinton successfully baited the former reality TV star by sharing the story of Alicia Machado , the winner of the 1996 Miss Universe pageant, whose physical appearance Trump later derided with nicknames such as “Miss Piggy”.