float russian

• пла́вать

  to swim, to float, to sail

• плыть

  to swim

  to sail, to go by boat

  to float, to drift

  to hover over, to glide above

• попла́вать

  to swim, to float, to sail

• поплы́ть

  to start swimming, to set sail, to swim off, to sail

  to float, to drift

• уплы́ть

  to swim away, to swim off

  to float away, to sail away, to go off by boat

  to slip away, to be gone, to melt away, to be spent quickly

  to pass, to go by, to elapse

• скользи́ть

  to slide, to glide, to float (along)

  to slip

• всплыва́ть

  to come to the surface, to surface, to float up

  to come to light, to be revealed, to crop up, to come up

• отплыва́ть

  to sail, to set sail, to float off

• отплы́ть

  to sail, to set sail, to float off

• уплыва́ть

  to swim away, to swim off

  to sail away, to float away, to drift off

  to pass, to go by, to elapse

  to melt away, to be spent quickly, to slip away

• размеща́ть

  to place, to put, to position, to arrange

  to post, to publish, to advertise, to run (an ad)

  to accommodate, to house, to put up, to seat

  to invest, to place (funds), to float (securities)

  to station, to deploy, to quarter, to billet

  to stow, to pack away, to load (cargo)

• заплы́ть

  to swim (to a place), to swim out, to float (to), to sail (to)

  to become swollen, to get puffy, to swell up

• спла́вить

  to alloy, to fuse together, to melt together

  to float downriver, to raft (timber), to send floating down

  to get rid of, to palm off, to offload, to pack off

• поплаво́к

  float

• заплыва́ть

  to swim in, to sail in, to float in, to get swollen

• сплыть

  to float away, to drift away, to be washed away

  to overflow, to run over, to boil over

• стла́ться

  to spread over, to float, to drift over the surface of something, to be rarified

• сплавля́ться

  to raft (down a river), to float downstream, to go rafting

  to alloy, to fuse together, to merge (of metals)

• сплавля́ть

  to float (timber) downriver, to send floating downstream, to raft

  to alloy, to fuse together, to melt together

  to get rid of, to palm off (on somebody), to foist off

• спла́виться

  to raft down, to float down (a river)

  to melt together, to fuse, to alloy

• вбра́сывать

  to throw in, to toss in, to put in

  to throw in (the ball), to drop (the puck), to put into play

  to put out (rumours), to plant (information), to float

• переплавля́ть

  to melt down, to smelt, to recast

  to float (timber), to raft, to transport by water

• пло́тик

  small raft, little raft, float

• вплыва́ть

  to swim in, to float in

• глади́лка

  trowel, float, smoothing tool

• сплыва́ть

  to float away, to drift away

• го́нка

  race, racing

  rush, haste, hurry, hurry-scurry

  rafting (of timber), floating

• моль

  moth

  mole

  loose floating timber, logs floated singly

• пла́вающий

  floating, drifting

  floating, variable, flexible

  swimming, sailing

• бон

  voucher, receipt, chit

  boom (in a harbour), floating barrier

• плаву́чий

  floating, buoyant

• плыву́щий

  floating, swimming, gliding, drifting

• блужда́ющий

  wandering, roaming, straying

  wandering, floating, migratory

• дрейфу́ющий

  drifting, floating, adrift

• всплыва́ющий

  pop-up, surfacing, floating up, emerging

• вита́ющий

  hovering, soaring, floating, dwelling (in thoughts)

• проплыва́ющий

  swimming past, floating past, sailing past

• плаву́честь

  buoyancy, floatability

  seaworthiness

• всплы́вший

  surfaced, emerged, floated up

• приплы́вший

  arrived (by water), floated in, swum in

• уплыва́ющий

  floating away, swimming away, sailing away, drifting away

• проплываемый

  swimmable, navigable (by swimming/floating)

• плы́вший

  swimming, floating, sailing

• дебарка́дер

  landing stage, floating pier, landing place

  platform, train shed

• плавба́за

  floating fish-factory

• плав

  floating, being afloat

  scum, floating mat of algae

• нося́щийся

  rushing about, scurrying, darting around

  floating, drifting, wafting, hovering

• выплыва́ющий

  emerging, swimming out, floating out, surfacing

• сплавно́й

  floatable

• приплыва́ющий

  arriving (by water), floating in, swimming in

• наплы́ть

  to run into, to run onto, to drift against

  to drift over, to come over slowly, to glide over

  to drift in (in quantity), to be washed up, to collect (of floating matter)

  to build up (and harden), to form (a deposit), to congeal

• плавсре́дство

  watercraft, floating craft, vessel

• проплыва́вший

  having swum past, having floated past, having sailed past, passing by (in the past)

• уплы́вший

  drifted away, floated away, sailed away, swum away

• проплы́вший

  swum past, sailed past, floated past, having swum past

• за́пань

  boom, log boom, floating barrier

• подплыва́ющий

  swimming up to, floating up to, approaching by water

• плотовщи́к

  raftsman, rafter, timber floater

• пла́вавший

  who was swimming, having swum, swimming (in the past)

  which was floating, having floated, floating (in the past)

  which was sailing, having sailed, sailing (in the past), navigating (in the past)

• зыбу́н

  quaking bog, quagmire, marshy ground

  floating mat of vegetation, overgrown shore zone

• сплавля́емый

  floatable, being floated (downstream)

  fusible, alloyable, being fused, being alloyed

• подча́ливать

  to moor, to bring alongside, to tie up

  to haul in (something floating), to pull in, to fish out

  to snag, to get hold of, to land (for oneself)

• наплыва́ющий

  surging, incoming, welling up, floating in

• попла́вавший

  having swum, having floated

• приплыва́вший

  having swum to, having sailed to, having floated to, that had swum/sailed/floated to

• брандва́хта

  guard ship, station ship, watch vessel

  accommodation vessel, floating quarters (for a dredger crew), tender (of a floating dredger)

  fire watch (on board a ship)

• всплыва́вший

  surfacing, floating up, emerging, that was surfacing

• уплыва́вший

  floating away, drifting away, sailing away

• па́рящийся

  soaring, hovering, floating

• сплавля́ющий

  rafting, floating (timber), sending downriver

  alloying, fusing

• сплавля́ющийся

  floating downstream, being rafted (of timber), drifting on the water

  fusing, melting together, alloying

• сплавля́вшийся

  floating, being rafted, being alloyed, being fused

• батопо́рт

  floating gate (of a dry dock), caisson gate

• выплыва́вший

  swimming out, floating out, emerging, appearing

• подплыва́вший

  swimming up to, floating up to, approaching by water

• вплыва́ющий

  floating in, swimming in, sailing in, drifting in

• вплыва́вший

  floating in, swimming in, sailing in, moving into (on water)

• прива́ливающий

  floating towards, drifting to, coming alongside

• сплыва́ющийся

  floating together, drifting together, coalescing

• сплыва́ющий

  floating away, drifting away, flowing down

• сплыва́вший

  floating away, drifting away

• сплавля́вший

  floating (timber), rafting

  alloying, fusing (metals)

• спла́вивший

  having fused (metals), having smelted, having melted together

  having floated (timber), having rafted (logs)

  having palmed off, having offloaded, having got rid of

• оплыва́вший

  swollen, puffy, bloated

  melted and run down, dripping (of wax)

  floating away, carried away by the current

• наплы́вший

  drifted in, floated in, washed up

  rolled in, swept in, drifted in (of fog)

Examples

• Ка́мни не пла́вают.

  Stones don't float.

• Лепестки́ плыву́т по воде.

  The petals are floating on the water.

• Будь во́ля Бо́га, я́блоневым цве́том Я распусти́лся б нежно на ве́тви, К тебе, любо́вь моя́, прильну́л бы летом, Чтоб увяда́ть на шёлковой груди.

  Would God, I were the tender apple blossom, That floats and falls from off the twisted bough, To lie and faint within your silken bosom, Within your silken bosom as that does now.

• Позволь, Госпо́дь, смиренно вста́ну я средь роз // Чтоб наслажда́ться взо́ром ми́лых глаз, // И жа́жду безотве́тных сла́дких грёз // Я утолю́ после́дний в жи́зни раз.

  Yea, would to God, I were among the roses, That lean to kiss you as you float between While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses A bud uncloses, to touch you, my queen.

• По не́бу плыло о́блако.

  A cloud floated across the sky.

• Де́рево пла́вает, а желе́зо то́нет.

  Wood floats, but iron sinks.

• Ты знал, что гнилы́е яйца пла́вают на воде?

  Did you know that rotten eggs float?

• Я пое́хал на Хоккайдо, чтобы посмотре́ть на плавающие льди́ны.

  I went to Hokkaido to see the floating ice.

• Опавший лист плыл по пове́рхности воды.

  A fallen leaf floated on the surface of the water.

• Иде́и не принадлежа́т нико́му, они парят в во́здухе.

  Ideas do not belong to anyone, they float in the air.

• Они сплавля́ли брёвна по реке́ на лесопи́лку.

  They floated the logs down the river to the sawmill.

• Вы меня научите держа́ться на воде?

  Will you teach me how to float?

• Дава́йте поплывём к плоту́.

  Let's swim out to the float.

• Су́дно бы́ло повреждено плавающей льди́ной.

  The boat was broken by the floating ice.

• Лес сплавля́ют по реке́.

  The logs are being floated down the river.

• Свинцо́вый шар мо́жет пла́вать в воде.

  It's possible for a ball of lead to float on water.

• Он был пе́рвым челове́ком, вышедшим в ко́смос.

  He was the first man to float in space.

• Я́блоко будет пла́вать на пове́рхности воды, а гру́ша - нет.

  An apple will float in water, a pear won't.

• Де́рево пла́вает.

  Wood floats.

• Том плыл вниз по тече́нию на плоту́.

  Tom floated downstream on a raft.

• Ты знал, что ту́хлые яйца не то́нут?

  Did you know that rotten eggs float?

• У меня в стака́не что-то пла́вает.

  There's something floating in my water.

• Моя́ кни́га где-то тут, но я не могу́ её найти́.

  My book is floating about here somewhere but I just can't find it.

• Иде́и нико́му не принадлежа́т, они вита́ют в во́здухе.

  Ideas do not belong to anyone, they float in the air.

• Почему лёд не то́нет?

  Why does ice float?

• Бревно́ плыло по реке́.

  The log floated down the river.

• Ло́дка отплыла́ от берега и вскоре исче́зла в тума́не.

  The boat floated away from the shore and soon disappeared into the fog.

• Том уви́дел не́сколько мертвых рыб, плавающих по о́зеру.

  Tom saw some dead fish floating on the lake.

• Де́рево не то́нет.

  Wood floats.

• В жару острова на горизо́нте ка́жутся парящими над водо́й.

  In the heat, the islands on the horizon seem to be floating above the water.

• Поплавок медленно погрузился в воду.

  The float slowly sank into the water.

• Рыбак следил за поплавком на реке.

  The fisherman watched the float on the river.

• В бачке сломался старый поплавок.

  The old float in the cistern broke.

• В кадке с водой плавали листья.

  Leaves were floating in the tub of water.

• Хватит парить в эмпиреях, займись делом.

  Stop floating around in the clouds and get to work.

• На пруду плавают белые кувшинки.

  White water lilies are floating on the pond.

• Мы увидели плавучий дом на реке.

  We saw a floating house on the river.

• Плавучий мост соединял два берега.

  A floating bridge connected the two banks.

• В порту стоял большой плавучий кран.

  A large floating crane stood in the port.

• Рабочие сплавили лес по реке весной.

  The workers floated the timber down the river in the spring.

• Сплавщики перегоняли лес по реке.

  The timber rafters floated logs down the river.

• Лес сплавляют по реке весной.

  The timber is floated down the river in spring.

• Рабочие построили запань для сплава леса.

  The workers built a boom for floating the logs downstream.

• Дети надели нарукавники и вошли в бассейн.

  The children put on their arm floaties and got into the pool.

• На озере плавала маленькая одновесельная лодка.

  A small one-oared boat was floating on the lake.

• Плавбаза приняла улов с нескольких рыболовных судов.

  The floating fish factory took in the catch from several fishing vessels.

• Экипаж плавбазы работал в открытом море неделями.

  The crew of the floating fish factory worked at sea for weeks at a time.

• Рыбаки сдали рыбу прямо на плавбазу.

  The fishermen delivered the fish directly to the floating fish factory.

• Плотовщики сплавляли лес по широкой реке.

  The raftsmen floated timber down the wide river.

• В машине сломался поплавковый механизм в бачке.

  The float mechanism in the tank broke down.

• Поплавковая камера карбюратора требует чистки.

  The carburetor's float chamber needs cleaning.

• Инженер проверил поплавковый клапан в системе.

  The engineer checked the float valve in the system.

• Штукатур взял гладилку и начал работу.

  The plasterer took a float and started working.

• Гладилка помогает выровнять свежий раствор.

  A float helps level fresh mortar.

• Без гладилки стену трудно сделать гладкой.

  Without a float, it’s difficult to make the wall smooth.

• В пруду плавала жабья икра.

  There was toad spawn floating in the pond.

• На реку наплыло много мусора после дождя.

  A lot of debris floated onto the river after the rain.

• К берегу наплыли листья и ветки.

  Leaves and branches floated toward the shore.

• Соломина плавала на поверхности воды.

  A straw was floating on the surface of the water.

• Брёвна сплавляются по реке к лесопилке.

  The logs are being floated down the river to the sawmill.

• Каждую весну лес сплавляется вниз по течению.

  Every spring, timber is floated downstream.

• Плоты сплавились по реке до самого города.

  The rafts floated down the river all the way to the city.

• В супе плавали хрящеватые кусочки курицы.

  Gristly pieces of chicken were floating in the soup.

• Рабочие проверили батопорт перед ремонтом судна.

  The workers inspected the floating gate before repairing the vessel.

• Батопорт закрыл вход в сухой док.

  The floating gate closed the entrance to the dry dock.

• Батопорт медленно опустился на дно дока.

  The floating gate slowly sank to the bottom of the dock.

• В стакане плавал тающий лёд.

  Melting ice was floating in the glass.

• Дети грустили об уплывшем на другой берег плоту.

  The children were sad about the raft that had floated to the other bank.

• Лёд, распадающийся на куски, плыл по реке.

  The ice, breaking into pieces, floated down the river.

• Мы смотрели на реющий в небе воздушный шар.

  We watched a hot-air balloon floating in the sky.

• Артель, сплавившая лес по реке, вернулась в село.

  The work team that had floated the timber down the river returned to the village.

• Отколовшийся кусок льда плыл по реке.

  A piece of ice that had broken off was floating down the river.

• Сплавляющий лес рабочий стоял на берегу.

  The worker floating timber downstream was standing on the bank.

• Сплавляющие бревна люди работали весь день.

  The people floating logs downstream worked all day.

• Мы видели катер, сплавляющий плоты по реке.

  We saw a motorboat floating rafts down the river.

• Рабочие, сплавлявшие лес по реке, устали к вечеру.

  The workers who had floated timber down the river were tired by evening.

• Плотовщики, сплавлявшие бревна, остановились у деревни.

  The raftsmen who had floated the logs downstream stopped near the village.

• Лес, сплавляемый по реке, доставляли на завод.

  The timber being floated down the river was delivered to the factory.

• Древесина, сплавляемая весной, шла на стройку.

  The timber floated downstream in spring was used for construction.

• Мы наблюдали за лодкой, вплывающей в озеро.

  We watched the boat float into the lake.

• Распластывавшийся на воде пловец отдыхал после заплыва.

  The swimmer floating spread-eagle on the water was resting after his swim.

• Расчленяющийся на части лед плыл по реке.

  The ice, breaking apart into pieces, floated down the river.

• Мусор, сплывавший по течению, прибило к берегу.

  The trash floating downstream was washed up on the bank.

• Плотогоны сплавляли лес по реке.

  The rafters floated timber down the river.