0 past simple and past participle of float --
2 to (cause to) move easily through, or along the surface of a liquid, or to (cause to) move easily through air: --
3 to suggest a plan or an idea to be considered: --
4 to allow the value of a country's money to change according to the value of other countries' money: --
5 to start selling shares in a business or company for the first time --
The biggest growth has been in the number of private nursery chains, some of which have been floated on the stock market.
All is floated, that is, displaced from the noun phrase the phonologists, adjacent to which it appears in the canonical (2).
He also floated the idea of giving tenants of private houses the same right to buy as might be given to council tenants.
With this sequence of assembly steps, the substructure will be floated, as opposed to the wing panels being floated.
Solutions are ideas floated by specialists in narrow policy communities looking for a problem to solve.
Early in the eighth month of 1852, a large number of dead fish floated to the surface of the inlet near the construction site.
Humans have created their own freedom as cultural cooperativists, meaning that the structure of human freedom has long since floated free of its biological base.
At the late stage, the effect was diminished and the bubble front floated in its asymptotic velocity.