Antonyms for float
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1. floatverb

   To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.

   Synonyms:
   initial public offering

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1. float

   Antonyms:
   sink, drown, die, founder, vanish

   Synonyms:
   swim, spread, prevail

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1. • Artifact
   • Convert
   • Display
   • Drink
   • Hand Tool
   • Launch
   • Masonry
   • Move
   • Smooth
   • Stock
   • Test
   • Time Interval
   • Transport
   • Travel
   • Value

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1. floatnoun

   the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

   Antonyms:
   go under, go down, sink, settle

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

2. floatnoun

   the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

   Antonyms:
   go down, go under, sink, settle

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

3. ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, floatnoun

   a drink with ice cream floating in it

   Antonyms:
   go down, go under, settle, sink

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

4. floatnoun

   an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade

   Antonyms:
   settle, go down, go under, sink

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

5. float, plasterer's floatnoun

   a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

   Antonyms:
   settle, sink, go under, go down

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

6. floatnoun

   something that floats on the surface of water

   Antonyms:
   sink, go down, go under, settle

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

7. air bladder, swim bladder, floatverb

   an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

   Antonyms:
   sink, settle, go under, go down

   Synonyms:
   air bladder, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, plasterer's float, swim bladder

8. float, drift, be adrift, blowverb

   be in motion due to some air or water current

   "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

   Antonyms:
   go under, sink, go down, settle

   Synonyms:
   swash, rove, vagabond, botch, ramble, bungle, muck up, range, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, stray, blow, tout, burn out, screw up, suck, gasconade, roll, fumble, flub, fellate, cast, ball up, err, freewheel, bollocks, wander, shoot a line, mess up, shove off, waste, louse up, bollocks up, gas, bollix, bluster, vaunt, swan, muff, tramp, blow out, swim, foul up, boast, fluff, drift, bobble, go down on, be adrift, shove along, bollix up, squander, spoil, roam, bodge

9. float, swimverb

   be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

   Antonyms:
   go down, go under, sink, settle

   Synonyms:
   be adrift, drift, blow, drown, swim

10. floatverb

    set afloat

    "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

    Antonyms:
    go under, go down, settle, sink

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

11. floatverb

    circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with

    "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"

    Antonyms:
    settle, go down, sink, go under

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

12. floatverb

    move lightly, as if suspended

    "The dancer floated across the stage"

    Antonyms:
    go down, go under, settle, sink

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

13. floatverb

    put into the water

    "float a ship"

    Antonyms:
    go down, settle, go under, sink

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

14. floatverb

    make the surface of level or smooth

    "float the plaster"

    Antonyms:
    sink, settle, go under, go down

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

15. floatverb

    allow (currencies) to fluctuate

    "The government floated the ruble for a few months"

    Antonyms:
    settle, go under, go down, sink

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

16. floatverb

    convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation

    "float data"

    Antonyms:
    sink, go down, settle, go under

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

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1. floatnoun

   Synonyms:
   raft, buoy

How to use float in a sentence?

1. Benjamin Schachter:

   Just as investors hang on to services as Apple's life preserver in the choppy seas, Apple Music is going to float away.

2. Krystal Stockwell:

   Both our marinas float, so our maintenance guys are busy keeping up with the lowering waters, we have to move the anchors out so that we can move the marinas out so we’re not stuck in the mud.

3. David Placek:

   It Floats ? i can't think of another. It makes you remember it because it also makes you think about other soaps that don't float.

4. Salah Shamma:

   Saudi's upgrade is likely to bolster stock prices, and provide the trigger for a wider catch-up rally by regional exchanges, we expect about 20 percent of the actual free float in Saudi Arabia may be bought by foreigners over the inclusion period.

5. House Speaker John Boehner:

   And there's a lot of good ideas and a lot of bad ideas that float through here. But it's, in my view, a misconception of the so-called special interests.

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