What is the meaning of FLOAT TEST. Phrases containing FLOAT TEST
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The act of testing the buoyant qualities of unwanted material while at sea. Often used as a euphemism for throwing something away, regardless of whether it was heaved into the ocean or not.
Slangs & AI meanings
a small, flat-bottomed row boat
Bucket afloat is old London Cockney rhyming slang for a coat.
Of a vessel which is floating freely (not aground or sunk). More generally of vessels in service ("the company has 10 ships afloat").
Railroad flat is American slang for a flat whose floor plan requires one to walk through one room to get to the other.
  A person who is flat is easily deceived.
I'm afloat is London Cockney rhyming slang for boat.I'm afloat is London Cockney rhyming slang for an overcoat.
All afloat was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a coat.
Flat is British slang for penniless. Flat is British slang for a credit card.
A flat ass.
Top flat is British slang for the head.
Bloat is contemptuous slang for a worthless, dissipated person.
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Opium
Too Darn Many
Throw Your Toys out of the Pram
To get very upset or angry
Go the Big Figure or Whole Figure
To go to the fullest extent in the attainment of any object, do things on a large scale.
Yark is American slang for to vomit.
Money paid to enter a crackhouse
Squeal is slang for to inform, to grass.
Shonk is british slang for the nose. Shonk is derogatory slang for a Jew.
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v. i.
A float board. See Float board (below).
v. t.
To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
superl.
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
v. t.
To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
adv. & a.
Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
adv.
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
n.
Something broad and flat in form
v. i.
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
n.
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
n.
A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
v. i.
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
v. i.
Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Float
v. t.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
superl.
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
superl.
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
n.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
superl.
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
superl.
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
adv. & a.
Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.
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