float

/floʊt/

意味: 浮くこと、山車、フロート

例文: Lena made a star-shaped float for the festival.
　　  レナは祭り用に星型のフロートを作った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: float in water(水に浮く), float on air(空中に浮く), float a loan(融資を提供する)

定義: 物や人が水や空気の上に軽く浮かぶことを意味します。例えば、ボートが水に浮かんでいる状態や、風船が空中に浮かんでいる状態を指します。また、金融の文脈では、融資を提供することを意味することもあります。

floatは約100,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
Noun: the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
Noun: a drink with ice cream floating in it
Noun: an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
Noun: a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
Noun: something that floats on the surface of water
Noun: an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
Verb: be in motion due to some air or water current
Verb: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
Verb: set afloat
Verb: circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
Verb: move lightly, as if suspended
Verb: put into the water
Verb: make the surface of level or smooth
Verb: allow (currencies) to fluctuate
Verb: convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Leaves float gently on the water surface.(葉が水面にそっと浮かんでいる。)
Balloons float high above the festival crowd.(風船が祭りの群衆の上高く浮かぶ。)
She tried to float across the calm lake.(彼女は穏やかな湖を浮いて渡ろうとした。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: The leaves were blowing in the wind
Verb: the boat drifted on the lake
Verb: The sailboat was adrift on the open sea
Verb: the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore
Verb: He floated the logs down the river
Verb: The boy floated his toy boat on the pond
Verb: The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform
Verb: The dancer floated across the stage
Verb: float a ship
Verb: float the plaster
Verb: The government floated the ruble for a few months
Verb: float data

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): air bladder, be adrift, blow, drift, float, ice-cream float, ice-cream soda, plasterer’s float, swim, swim bladder

Antonyms(反意語): sink

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): artifact, convert, display, drink, hand tool, launch, sac, smooth, stock, test, time interval, transport, travel, value

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absence, access time, accompany, acinus, advance, advect, air bladder, air sac, alveolus, americana, amnion, anachronism, angle, antiquity, article, ascend, authorized shares, automobile, awl, back, bang, beetle, betake oneself, bevel, billow, bladder, blast off, block, bodkin, bounce, breeze, building material, bursa, bus, button, caravan, career, carry, carry over, chaser, chorion, circle, circuit, circulate, cisterna, coelenteron, come, commodity, common stock, common stock equivalent, cone, control, control stock, covering, crank, crawl, creation, cruise, cycle, decimalize, decker, decoration, derail, descend, dibble, distance, do, draft, drag, draw, drive, ease, electroplate, embolism, eternity, excavation, extra, eye opener, fabric, facility, fall, ferry, field-test, file, fixture, float, flock, fly, follow, forge, frappe, freight, get around, ghost, glide, go around, graver, growth stock, gutter, hair of the dog, hammer, hand shovel, hiss, hot stock, hurtle, ice-cream soda, insert, instrumentality, interim, interlude, island hop, lance, latent period, launch, layer, lead time, lemon, libation, lighter, line, lunitidal interval, lurch, marker, marlinespike, metricize, milkshake, miter box, mystification, nightcap, no-par-value stock, opener, opening, outflank, overvalue, pace, padding, pallet, pan, pass, pass over, pause, paving, pericardial sac, period, pestle, pick, pick up, pincer, pipe, pipe cutter, pitchfork, plane, play, plaything, pledge, pliers, plow, plumber’s snake, plunger, posset, pouch, prance, precede, precess, preferred stock, proceed, processing time, propagate, pursue, push, quarter stock, raft, rail, rake, ravehook, reaction time, ready-made, repair, restoration, retreat, retrograde, return, ride, rise, roll, rotational latency, round, run, rush, saccule, sandblast, sandblaster, sandpaper, sangaree, saw, scramble, scraper, screwdriver, seek, seek time, shandygaff, sheet, shovel, shuttle, sift, ski, sledge, slice into, slither, sluice, snellen chart, snowshoe, soldering iron, spatula, spectacle, speed, sphere, spreader, square, squeaker, steamer, step, stirrup cup, straightedge, stray, strip, structure, sundowner, surface, swap, swash, swim, swing, syllabub, taxi, teleport, thing, time constant, time slot, tire iron, track, trail, tram, transduce, transfer, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, treasury stock, trowel, truck, trundle, turn, undervalue, vesicle, voting stock, walk, watered stock, way, weave, weeder, weight, wend, wheel, wheelbarrow, whine, whish, whisk, whiskey neat, whiskey on the rocks, whistle, wire stripper, withdraw, wrench, yolk sac, zigzag, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bob, buoy, chip, drift, life preserver, pontoon, raft, refloat, ride, root beer float, stream, tide, waft

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: blow, drift, float, floatation, floater, floating, floaty, flotation, swim

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: