"float at" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "floats at",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "floating at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "floated at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "floated at",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "float at (third-person singular simple present floats at, present participle floating at, simple past and past participle floated at)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        },
        {
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (at)",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Thomas S. Weinberg, Staci Newmahr, Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To present or make available to; offer, especially prospectively."
      ],
      "id": "en-float_at-en-verb-Kty2yxrP",
      "links": [
        [
          "present",
          "present"
        ],
        [
          "available",
          "available"
        ],
        [
          "offer",
          "offer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To present or make available to; offer, especially prospectively."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (at)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Timothy J. O'Leary III, The Dimensional Gateway",
          "text": "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 mundane like stopping a world war!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Andrea Shaw, Alla, West Jefferson Medical Center float pays tribute to cancer patients, survivors",
          "text": "“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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To arrive without warning, but not suddenly."
      ],
      "id": "en-float_at-en-verb-jX5~9e0I",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To arrive without warning, but not suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "float at"
}

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    "English phrasal verbs with particle (at)",
    "English verbs"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "floats at",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "floating at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "floated at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "floated at",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "float at (third-person singular simple present floats at, present participle floating at, simple past and past participle floated at)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Thomas S. Weinberg, Staci Newmahr, Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To present or make available to; offer, especially prospectively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "present",
          "present"
        ],
        [
          "available",
          "available"
        ],
        [
          "offer",
          "offer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To present or make available to; offer, especially prospectively."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Timothy J. O'Leary III, The Dimensional Gateway",
          "text": "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 mundane like stopping a world war!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Andrea Shaw, Alla, West Jefferson Medical Center float pays tribute to cancer patients, survivors",
          "text": "“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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To arrive without warning, but not suddenly."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To arrive without warning, but not suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "float at"
}