Float vs Slide - What's the difference?

Float is a related term of slide.

As verbs the difference between float and slide

is that float is (lb) of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface while slide is (ergative) to (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.

As nouns the difference between float and slide

is that float is a buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid while slide is an item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

float

English

(wikipedia float)

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface.

The boat floated on the water.

The oil floated on the vinegar.

(lb) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density; as, to float a boat.

(lb) To be capable of floating.

That boat doesn’t float .

Oil floats on vinegar.

(lb) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating

I’d love to just float downstream.

(lb) To drift or wander aimlessly.

I’m not sure where they went... they’re floating around here somewhere.

Images from my childhood floated through my mind.

(lb) To drift gently through the air.

The balloon floated off into the distance.

(lb) To move in a fluid manner.

The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.

(of an idea or scheme) To be viable.

That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float .

(lb) To propose (an idea) for consideration.

I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.

(lb) To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.

(of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.

The yen floats against the dollar.

To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.

The government floated the pound in January.

Increased pressure on Thailand’s currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that forced the government to float the currency.

To extend a short-term loan to.

Could you float me $50 until payday?

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.

* 2005 June 21, Dewi Cooke, (The Age) [http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/shoemaker-strides-for-world-domination/2005/06/20/1119250927926.html?from=moreStories],

He [Mario Moretti Polegato] floated the company on the Milan Stock Exchange last December and sold 29 per cent of its shares, mostly to American investors.

* 2007', Jonathan Reuvid, '''''Floating Your Company: The Essential Guide to Going Public .

* 2011 , Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI Yearbook 2011: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security , footnote i, page 269,

As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.

(lb) To use a float (tool).

It is time to float this horse's teeth.

(lb) To perform a .

Derived terms

* float someone's boat * whatever floats your boat

Noun

(en noun)

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

A float board.

A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.

A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.

When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float .

An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.

That float covered in roses is very pretty.

(lb) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.

* 1913 ,

As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm.

(lb) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.

Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.

An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.

2006', ''You don't actually need a broker to buy shares in a '''float when a company is about to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.'' — financial tips article, ''Buying shares in a float [http://www.fido.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/print/Buying+shares+in+a+float?opendocument]

(lb) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.

No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.

(lb) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.

We make a lot of interest from our nightly float .

(lb) A floating-point number.

That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float .

A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.

It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float .

A small sum of money put in a cashier's till at the start of business to enable change to be made.

(lb) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of after a subsequent community card.

(lb) One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.

(lb) a car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination

(lb) a lowboy trailer

(lb) A device sending a copious stream of water to the heated surface of a bulky object, such as an anvil or die.

(Knight)

(lb) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

(Francis Bacon)

A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.

(Mortimer)

A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

(Knight)

A coal cart.

(Simmonds)

Synonyms

* initial public offering

Derived terms

* floatplane

Anagrams

* aloft English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words

slide

English

Verb

(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface

He slid the boat across the grass.

The safe slid slowly.

Snow slides down the side of a mountain.

To move on a low-friction surface.

The car slid on the ice.

* (rfdate), Waller:

They bathe in summer, and in winter slide .

(baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.

Jones slid into second.

To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.

He slid while going around the corner.

To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.

to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question

(obsolete) To pass inadvertently.

* Bible, Eccles. xxviii. 26

Beware thou slide not by it.

To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.

A ship or boat slides through the water.

* (rfdate), Dryden:

Ages shall slide away without perceiving.

* (rfdate), Alexander Pope:

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

(music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.

To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

* (rfdate), Chaucer:

With good hope let he sorrow slide .

* (rfdate), Philip Sidney:

With a calm carelessness letting everything slide .

Derived terms

* let slide

Noun

(en noun)

An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.

The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.

A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.

(Charles Dickens)

The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.

The slide closed the highway.

An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.

A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.

The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.

a slide on the ice

* Francis Bacon

A better slide into their business.

A lever that can be moved in two directions.

A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.

A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.

(baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base

(sciences) A flat, rectangular piece of glass on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope.

(music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.

A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.

(geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

(Dana)

(music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.

(phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.

A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.

Synonyms

* (item of play equipment) slippery dip * (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity) chute * (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide) runner

Derived terms

* landslide * mudslide * water slide * hairslide

Anagrams

* English ergative verbs English irregular verbs ----