Float

Definition

float /flǝƱt / v ၁။ ေပါေလာေပၚသည္။ Wood floats. ❍ Try and float on your back. ၂။ ေလထဲတြင္ လြင့္ပါးသည္။ ေရထဲတြင္ ေမ်ာပါေနသည္။ (စိတ္ကူးထဲ) ေမ်ာပါေနသည္။ 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။ ေမွ်ာခ်သည္။ 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။ အဆိုျပဳသည္။ Let me float a couple of ideas. ၅။ ( commerce ) လူထုသို႔ အစု ရွယ္ယာမ်ား ေရာင္းခ်သည္။ a company recently floated on the Stock Exchange ❍ Shares were floated at 460p. See also FLOTATION ၆။ ( techn ) (က) ႏိုင္ငံသံုးေငြေၾကးကိုေဈးကြက္ေပါက္ေဈး အလိုက္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေငြေၾကးမ်ားႏွင့္ လဲလွယ္ခြင့္ ျပဳသည္။ float the pound / dollar / yen. (ခ) (ႏိုင္ငံသံုး ေငြေၾကးကို) ေဈးကြက္တြင္တင္သည္။ n ၁။ (က) (ငါးမွ်ားတံ)ေဖာ့။ (ခ) (ငါးဖမ္းပိုက္) ေဖာ့။ (ဂ) (ေရကူးသင္ေနသူတြယ္ရန္) ေဗာ။ ၂။ (က) အလွျပယာဥ္။ The club display was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street. (ခ) = MILK FLOAT ၃။ ဆိုင္ စဖြင့္ခ်ိန္ အမ္းႏိုင္ရန္ ေငြကိုင္ထံေပးထား ေသာ အႏုပ္။ ၄။ ( commerce ) လူထုသို႔ အစုရွယ္ယာမ်ား စတင္ေရာင္းခ် သည့္ အစီအစဥ္။ They lack permission for a proper share float. ❏ float about / around [ PHRV ] ၁။ (သတင္း) ေျပးေန သည္။ (ေကာလာဟလ) ျပန္႔ေနသည္။ There's a rumour floating around that you're thinking of leaving. ၂။ ေရေမ်ာကမ္းတင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သေဝထိုးသည္။ Have you seen my keys floating about (anywhere)? ❏ float about / around (sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေရာက္ရာေပါက္ရာသြားသည္။ ေျခဦးတည့္ရာသြားသည္။ My weekend was very boring–I just floated about (the house) or watched TV. ❏ floating adj (မူေသမဟုတ္) အရွင္ထားေသာ။ အတည္တက် မေနေသာ။ floating exchange rates ❍ a floating population (ie one in which people are constantly moving from one place to another). ❏ floating voter n စိတ္မပိုင္းျဖတ္ရေသးေသာ (သို႔) ပါတီစြဲ မရိွေသာ မဲဆႏၵရွင္။ The outcome of this election may be decided by floating voters.

Examples

1. Their raft would not float.
2. [float on/in] : Leaves and twigs floated on the water.
3. [float by/along/towards etc] : Miranda floated by on her back.
4. They were floating little paper boats on the lake.
5. [float in/through/across/over etc] : Bubbles floated in the air.
6. A cloud floated across the moon.
7. [float up/down/across/through etc] : Music floated up from the garden.
8. Perfume floated around her.
9. [float down/up/across etc] : Fabia floated down the stairs in a long white dress.
10. She just sort of floats through life.
11. The company was floated in 1993.
12. Various explanations for his resignation are being floated.
13. Old TV shows refurbished as films rarely float.