Floated vs Rolled - What's the difference?
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(float)
(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.
(lb) To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density; as, to float a boat.
(lb) To be capable of floating.
(lb) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating
(lb) To drift or wander aimlessly.
(lb) To drift gently through the air.
(lb) To move in a fluid manner.
(of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
(lb) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
(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.
To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
To extend a short-term loan to.
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],
* 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,
(lb) To use a float (tool).
(lb) To perform a .
A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
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.
An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
(lb) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
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(lb) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
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.
(lb) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
(lb) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
(lb) A floating-point number.
A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
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.
(lb) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
A coal cart.
(roll)
(ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
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* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up .
To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
(ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
(ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
(ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
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, title= (chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
(chiefly, US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
(geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
(US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
* 2006 , Chris McKenna, "Kids at party chant as police sergeant is beaten by angry teens", Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, November 21, [http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/611210321].
(gaming, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
(gaming) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
To have a rolling aspect.
(gaming) To create a new character in a role-playing game.
(computing) To generate a random number.
To turn over and over.
To tumble in gymnastics.
(nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare with pitch.
To beat up.
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(slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
(slang) To betray secrets.
(informal) To act.
* 2001 September 11, (Todd Beamer):
(slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
* 2000 , Michael Sunstar, Underground Rave Dance , Writers Club Press, ISBN 9780595156115, page 15:
* 2003 , Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear (novel), HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-688-17458-3,
* unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online , Lexington Books (2007), ISBN 978-0-7391-1455-1
(of a camera) To film.
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, title= To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
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To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
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The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
That which rolls; a roller.
# A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
# One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
# That which is rolled up.
# A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
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# Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
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# A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
# A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
(nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
(nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
A heavy, reverberatory sound.
The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
(obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 594:
the rotation angle about the longitudinal axis
The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling .
A training match for a fighting dog.
As verbs the difference between floated and rolled
is that floated is (float) while rolled is (roll).floated
English
Verb
(head)float
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(wikipedia float)Verb
(en verb)- The boat floated on the water.
- The oil floated on the vinegar.
- That boat doesn’t float .
- Oil floats on vinegar.
- I’d love to just float downstream.
- I’m not sure where they went... they’re floating around here somewhere.
- Images from my childhood floated through my mind.
- The balloon floated off into the distance.
- The dancer floated gracefully around the stage.
- That’s a daft idea... it’ll never float .
- I floated the idea of free ice-cream on Fridays, but no one was interested.
- The yen floats against the dollar.
- 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.
- Could you float me $50 until payday?
- 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.
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- As a result of this reverse acquisition, Hurlingham changed its name to Manroy plc and floated shares on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
- It is time to float this horse's teeth.
Derived terms
* float someone's boat * whatever floats your boatNoun
(en noun)- Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.
- When pouring a new driveway, you can use a two-by-four as a float .
- That float covered in roses is very pretty.
- As soon as the skies brightened and plum-blossom was out, Paul drove off in the milkman's heavy float up to Willey Farm.
- Our bank does a nightly sweep of accounts, to adjust the float so we stay within our reserves limit.
- 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]
- No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished.
- We make a lot of interest from our nightly float .
- That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float .
- It's true - I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a "real" float .
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Synonyms
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English
Verb
(head)roll
English
Verb
(en verb)- And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls', and '''rolls''', and ' rolls .
- The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.
- The cloth rolls''' unevenly; the snow '''rolls well.
- The pastry rolls well.
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- "This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.
- Let's roll !
- Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”
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- The crowd was rolling' on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was ' rolling .
- So the quesion is When you are rolling' what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m ' rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds
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- The years roll on.
- what different sorrows did within thee roll
- The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.
Derived terms
* let's roll * rollable * roller * roll in the aisles * roll off * roll off the tongue * roll on * roll out * roll-out * roll-over * roll over * roll the dice * roll upNoun
(en noun)- the roll of a ball
- Look at the roll of the waves.
- to pass rails through the rolls
- a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- Busy angels spread / The lasting roll , recording what we say.
- The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant.
- The roll and list of that army doth remain.
- a roll''' of carpeting; a '''roll of ribbon
- Hear the roll of cannon.
- Hear the roll of thunder.
- Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.
- Calculate the roll of that aircraft.
- Make your roll.
- Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.
- He is on a roll tonight.