float Definition på svenska

• 0 to stay on the surface of a liquid and not sink: --

  • You can float very easily in/on the Dead Sea because it's so salty.

  • An empty bottle will float.

• 1 to (cause to) move easily through, or along the surface of a liquid, or to (cause to) move easily through air: --

  • Since he lost his job, he's just floated around/about doing nothing.

  • She sort of floats around, like a ballet dancer.

  • figurative The sound of piano-playing floated out through the open window.

  • Fluffy white clouds were floating across the sky.

  • The children enjoy floating their boats on the pond in the park.

  • He tossed the bottle into the waves and watched it float out to sea.

  • We spent a lazy afternoon floating down/along the river.

• 2 to suggest a plan or an idea to be considered: --

  • Laura has floated the idea that we should think about expanding into Europe next year.

• 3 to allow the value of a country's money to change according to the value of other countries' money: --

  • Argentina decided to let its currency float freely against the dollar.

• 4 to start selling shares in a business or company for the first time --

• 5 a small amount of money kept by someone who works in a bar, etc., used for giving customers their change --