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float at

float at verb: to present or make available (something) to (someone); offer, especially prospectively.

Verb

float at (third-person singular simple present floats at, present participle floating at, simple past and past participle floated at)

  1. (transitive) To present or make available (something) to (someone); offer, especially prospectively.
    • The word imposter was floated at me a few times. I can still feel the sting of those words sometimes when I hit an emotional low point.2014, Thomas S. Weinberg, Staci Newmahr, Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities
  2. (transitive) To come to (a person) gradually but without warning.
    • Just as quickly as the thought arrived, he was enveloped by the Portal's cloud. Wow, he thought, you have just got to stop surprising me like that! O.K., what now? More “job interviews” with future prospective employers who float at you with an “I come in peace” motivation? Or, maybe something more...2013, Timothy J. O'Leary III, The Dimensional Gateway
    • “In your mind, whether you want to or not, you immediately start to say goodbye and just make final (arrangements) just to grandkids, your neighbors and all that,” she said of learning of her diagnosis. “But hope has floated at me from every angle at West Jefferson.”2013, Andrea Shaw, Alla, West Jefferson Medical Center float pays tribute to cancer patients, survivors

Forms of float at

third-person singular presentfloats at
present participlefloating at
past participlefloated at
pastfloated at

Questions about float at

What does float at mean?
Float at means to present or make available (something) to (someone); offer, especially prospectively.
What part of speech is float at?
Float at is a verb.
What is the past tense of float at?
The past tense of float at is floated at.

Words near float at in the dictionary

  1. Flo-Town
  2. FLO/FLO
  3. FLO/FLOs
  4. float
  5. float around
  6. float at
  7. float board
  8. float boards
  9. float glass
  10. float glasses
  11. float like a butterfly

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