| 单词 | on float |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (rarely at) float a. The action of floating or †swimming. †Formerly also: the condition of floating or of being on the water; esp. in on (rarely at) float = afloat adv. †upon the float: floating on the stream; also figurative in an unsettled condition. Now rare.With on and at float cf. the synonymous Old Norse á floti, French à flot (Old French a flote). For instances of on flote before 15th cent., see afloat adv. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [phrase] > floating (of vessel) on (rarely at) floatOE the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > moving freely on surface floatOE floating1555 floatage1626 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > moving in or on water [phrase] > driven by current upon the float1652 the world > time > change > changeableness > [adverb] ficklya1300 unconstantlya1542 changefully1615 up and down1643 ticklish1661 titter-totter1673 upon the float1768 titubantly1861 weathercock-wise1874 wimble-wamble1890 rockily1895 OE Cynewulf Elene 226 Ongan þa ofstlice eorla mengu to flote fysan. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 162 God..tagte fuel on walkene his fligt, Ilc fis on water his flotes migt. 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 378 To ger hir [a ship] com on floit. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 105 A shippe being on flote at the full Sea. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 188 When both winds and Currents are uncertain, to ride at flote, till [etc.]. 1652 E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Prolegomena sig. A2 Past Ages have like Rivers conveied downe to us, (upon the floate), the more light, and Sophisticall pieces of Learning. 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 241 The next spring tide two fourth rates will also be putt on float. 1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 68/1 The Richmond soon afterwards got on float. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 15 Our ideas being perpetually upon the float. 1817 J. Keats Calidore And now the sharp keel of his little boat Comes up with ripple and with easy float. on (a) float a. An overflow from a river, etc.; a flood; literal and figurative. on (a) float: in flood, flooded; = afloat adv. 2; also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] streamc950 water floodOE floodc1000 waterOE diluvya1325 waterganga1325 flowinga1340 delugec1374 diluvec1386 Noah's floodc1390 overflowing1430 inundation1432 flowa1450 surrounding1449 over-drowninga1500 spate1513 float1523 drowning1539 ravine1545 alluvion1550 surundacion1552 watershot1567 overflow1589 ravage1611 inunding1628 surroundera1642 water breach1669 flooding1799 debacle1802 diluviation1816 deluging1824 superflux1830 whelm1842 come1862 floodage1862 sheet-flood1897 flash flooding1939 flash-flood1940 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > in flood [phrase] on (a) float1523 in flood1874 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > in flood [phrase] > flooded on (a) floodc1374 on (a) float1523 the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > overflow > [noun] > of surplus water waste waterc1450 surabundance?1473 float1523 overflowing1574 waste1587 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [adverb] outa1387 on1572 on (a) float1749 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [phrase] > over the edge of on (a) float1749 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of outbreakinga1387 breaking-out1552 outbreak1562 eruption1598 storm1602 out-breach1609 fulmination1623 outflying1641 outburst1657 float1763 overboiling1767 irruption1811 gush1821 outflash1831 outflush1834 shooting forth1837 outbursting1838 blow-off1842 outblaze1843 upburst1843 upthrow1855 upbreak1856 spurt1859 outlash1868 spitfire1886 Brock's benefit1948 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > superabundance > a superabundant quantity or amount superabundance?a1425 delugec1430 superfluousness1561 float1763 1590 T. Watson Eglogue vpon Death Walsingham sig. B2 That your Pægasean springs may leap their bound, and from their floate maie seas of teares distill. 1607 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. (ed. 3) iv. iii. 317 Where a litle before men went on foot, al then was on flote. 1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) iv. 150 In their Nilus floats (quum tenet omnia Nilus). 1664 Floddan Field iii. 28 That every brook burst forth on float. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. iii. 132 A very trifling Accident set all his Passions again on Float . View more context for this quotation 1763 Whitaker Serm. 30 June (1767) 37 How soon may we expect to see..a float of vice and error overspread our Jerusalem? < as lemmas |
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