float

浮く、浮かぶ

水などの液体の表面に、沈まずにとどまる。

やさしい英語で： To stay on the surface of water or another liquid without sinking.

• The leaf floated on the water.
• I like to float on my back in the pool.
• Several empty bottles were floating near the boat.

使い方： float on something (A leaf floated on the pond.); float in something (Small pieces of ice floated in my drink.)

類義語： stay afloat

反対語： sink

よく使う表現： float on water, float in something, float on your back

浮く

液体に入れても沈まず、表面にとどまることができる。

やさしい英語で： To be able to stay on the surface of a liquid without sinking.

• Cork can float.
• Does this type of plastic float in water?
• Our homemade boat would not float, even without passengers.

類義語： be buoyant

反対語： sink

よく使う表現： float in water, float or sink, float easily

浮かべる

物を水などの液体に入れ、表面に浮いた状態にする。

やさしい英語で： To put something in water or another liquid so it stays on the surface.

• We floated a toy boat in the bath.
• The workers floated the logs down the river.
• Can we float this raft on the lake?

使い方： float something on/in something (The children floated paper boats on the pond.)

類義語： launch

反対語： sink, submerge

よく使う表現： float a boat, float a raft, float something downstream

浮き、浮き具

水に浮いて物を支えたり、水面近くに保ったりする道具。

やさしい英語で： An object that stays on water and supports something or keeps it near the surface.

• The child held a swimming float.
• Attach a small float to the fishing line.
• Two floats kept the equipment above the water.

類義語： buoy, flotation device

よく使う表現： fishing float, swimming float, attach a float, supporting float

山車、パレード用の飾り車

公の祝いの行列で進む、飾り付けられた車。

やさしい英語で： A vehicle covered with decorations that moves along in a public celebration.

• The float was covered in flowers.
• Children waved from a float in the parade.
• Several colorful floats moved slowly along the main street.

類義語： parade vehicle

よく使う表現： parade float, carnival float, decorated float

クリームソーダ、フロート

甘い炭酸飲料にアイスクリームを浮かべた飲み物。

やさしい英語で： A drink made by putting ice cream into a sweet fizzy drink.

• I ordered a root beer float.
• She made floats with cola and vanilla ice cream.
• Would you like a straw for your float?

類義語： ice cream soda

よく使う表現： root beer float, ice cream float, soda float

こて

まだ湿っているコンクリートやしっくいの表面をならす平たい道具。

やさしい英語で： A flat tool used to make wet concrete or plaster smooth.

• Use a float to smooth the concrete.
• The builder cleaned the plaster from his float.
• Wooden floats leave a different finish from metal ones.

よく使う表現： concrete float, wooden float, plastering float