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 Translation for 'to float' from English to Dutch
VERB   to float | floated | floated
floating | floats
SYNO air bladder | float | ice-cream float | ...
drijvento float
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zwevento float [in the air]
carnavalswagen {de}carnival float
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Translation for 'to float' from English to Dutch

to float
drijven
to float [in the air]
zweven

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carnival float
carnavalswagen {de}
Usage Examples English
  • It can be also used to prevent air from re-dissolving in a boiled liquid, and to store alkali metals such as potassium, sodium, and rubidium (with the exception of lithium, which is less dense than kerosene, causing it to float).
  • After plant material has been agitated in an icy slush, separated trichomes are often dense enough to sink to the bottom of the ice-water mixture following agitation, while lighter pieces of leaves and stems tend to float.
  • In the early part of the twentieth century, the Pra was used extensively to float timber to the coast for export.
  • "Time" critic Richard Corliss called it a "noir with a touch so light, the film seems to float on the breeze like the frisbee of a fedora sailing through the forest".
  • However, large amounts of oil can be problematic as they cause complete breakdown of suspensions by causing cloud particles to float to the surface.

  • As a result, Sweden in November 1992 was forced to abandon its policy of a fixed exchange rate and allow the Swedish crown to float freely.
  • Inner tube water polo is a style of water polo in which players, excluding the goalkeeper, are required to float in inner tubes.
  • Scrolling displays built up of individual tiles can be made to 'float' over a repeating background layer by animating the individual tiles' bitmaps in order to portray the parallax effect.
  • ... the ability to float) would have come later, followed by swimming in the Plectronocerida and eventually jet propulsion in more derived cephalopods.
  • Overall, they lack contact with the ground and seem to float across the ground rather than take steps.

  • The government, therefore, continued to intervene heavily in foreign-exchange marketing (buying or selling dollars), even after the 1973 decision to allow the yen to float.
  • For a ship to float, its weight must be less than that of the water displaced by the ship's hull.
  • Generally, this type of mine is set to float just below the surface of the water or as deep as five meters.
  • As the second English football club to float on the London Stock Exchange in 1991, the club raised significant capital, with which it further developed its commercial strategy.
  • The easiest way to ship produce was to use a flatboat to float it down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the port of New Orleans, where goods could be put on ocean-going vessels.

  • Experimental trains such as high speed maglevs, which use magnetic levitation to float above a guideway, are under development in the 2020s [...] and offer higher speeds than even the fastest conventional trains.
  • The filter stones were mounted on a hinged arm to float [...] above the diver, to set up a depth-pressure-differential suction effect to counteract the extra exhalation pressure needed to breathe out through the diffuser.
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