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Definition of Afloat
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Afloat
Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat. Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded; as, the decks are afloat. Related Definitions:
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Afloat Quotations
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. Eric Hoffer I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. Steven Soderbergh There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. Anna Quindlen The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? Georges Duhamel |
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Afloat Translations
afloat in Spanish is flotante afloat in Swedish is flytande |
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