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to float
  1. 1 to float
  2. 2 to become merry, to be cheerful
  3. 3 to become loose, to become unsteady
  4. 4 to feel out of it, to be cut off (e.g. from those around you), to feel out of place
  5. 5 to be frivolous, to be uncertain
  6. 6 to have (time, money, etc.) left over, to be saved (e.g. money)
  7. 7 to have no basis, to be unreliable
N2
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • A stone does not float.

    sense 1 · to float

  • Being at the concert hall full of young kids made an old duffer like me feel out of tune.

    sense 4 · to feel out of it

  • Wood floats in water.

    sense 1 · to float

  • Wood floats, but iron sinks.

    sense 1 · to float

  • Particles of dust float in the atmosphere.

    sense 1 · to float

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