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float

/fləʊt/

US pronunciation
American sound/fləʊt/
float
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1 syllable
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Myanmar meaning

(v) ရေတွင်ပေါလောပေါ်သည်။

Full entry

float /flǝƱt / v

၁။ ပေါလောပေါ်သည်။ Wood floats. ❍ Try and float on your back.
၂။ လေထဲတွင် လွင့်ပါးသည်။ ရေထဲတွင် မျောပါနေသည်။ (စိတ်ကူးထဲ) မျောပါနေသည်။ The smell of new bread floated up from the kitchen. ❍ A balloon floated across the sky. ❍ The raft was floating gently down the river. ❍ (fig ) Thoughts of lazy summer afternoons floated through his mind.
၃။ မျှောချသည်။ There wasn't enough water to float the ship. ❍ float a raft of logs down the river ❍ We waited for the tide to float the boat off the sandbank.
၄။ အဆိုပြုသည်။ Let me float a couple of ideas.
၅။ (commerce ) လူထုသို့ အစု ရှယ်ယာများ ရောင်းချသည်။ a company recently floated on the Stock Exchange ❍ Shares were floated at 460p. See also FLOTATION
၆။ (techn )(က) နိုင်ငံသုံးငွေကြေးကိုဈေးကွက်ပေါက်ဈေး အလိုက် နိုင်ငံခြားငွေကြေးများနှင့် လဲလှယ်ခွင့် ပြုသည်။ float the pound / dollar / yen.
(ခ) (နိုင်ငံသုံး ငွေကြေးကို) ဈေးကွက်တွင်တင်သည်။
n
၁။ (က) (ငါးမျှားတံ)ဖော့။ (ခ) (ငါးဖမ်းပိုက်) ဖော့။ (ဂ) (ရေကူးသင်နေသူတွယ်ရန်) ဗော။
၂။ (က) အလှပြယာဉ်။ The club display was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street. (ခ) = MILK FLOAT
၃။ ဆိုင် စဖွင့်ချိန် အမ်းနိုင်ရန် ငွေကိုင်ထံပေးထား သော အနုပ်။
၄။ (commerce ) လူထုသို့ အစုရှယ်ယာများ စတင်ရောင်းချ သည့် အစီအစဉ်။ They lack permission for a proper share float.
❏ float about / around [PHRV ]
၁။ (သတင်း) ပြေးနေ သည်။ (ကောလာဟလ) ပြန့်နေသည်။ There's a rumour floating around that you're thinking of leaving.
၂။ ရေမျောကမ်းတင် ဖြစ်သည်။ သဝေထိုးသည်။ Have you seen my keys floating about (anywhere)?
❏ float about / around (sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) ရောက်ရာပေါက်ရာသွားသည်။ ခြေဦးတည့်ရာသွားသည်။ My weekend was very boring–I just floated about (the house) or watched TV.
❏ floating adj (မူသေမဟုတ်) အရှင်ထားသော။ အတည်တကျ မနေသော။ floating exchange rates ❍ a floating population (ie one in which people are constantly moving from one place to another).
❏ floating voter n စိတ်မပိုင်းဖြတ်ရသေးသော (သို့) ပါတီစွဲ မရှိသော မဲဆန္ဒရှင်။ The outcome of this election may be decided by floating voters.

More examples
  • Their raft would not float.
  • [float on/in] : Leaves and twigs floated on the water.
  • [float by/along/towards etc] : Miranda floated by on her back.
  • They were floating little paper boats on the lake.
  • [float in/through/across/over etc] : Bubbles floated in the air.
  • A cloud floated across the moon.
  • [float up/down/across/through etc] : Music floated up from the garden.
  • Perfume floated around her.
  • [float down/up/across etc] : Fabia floated down the stairs in a long white dress.
  • She just sort of floats through life.
  • The company was floated in 1993.
  • Various explanations for his resignation are being floated.
  • Old TV shows refurbished as films rarely float.
Synonyms
drift, glide, hover, soar, hang, Barmecidal, balsa, be buoyant, blue sky, bob, bobber, buoy, caisson, cash fund, catamaran, cork, floater, illusory, life raft, lifeboat, lift, move gently, oak, offer, petty cash, phellem, poise, pontoon, present, promote, propose, put forward, raft, rest on water, ride, sail, semblant, shive, skim, slide, slip along, smooth along, stay afloat, stopple, suggest, swim, tread water, waft, wash
Antonyms
drop, drown, reject, sink
Cross references
driftglidehoversoarhangBarmecidalbalsabe buoyantblue skybobbobberbuoycaissoncash fundcatamarancorkfloaterillusorylife raftlifeboatliftmove gentlyoakofferpetty cashphellempoisepontoon
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