SINKER Antonyms

• tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas

• characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness

• the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

• the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

• a drink with ice cream floating in it

• an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade

• a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

• something that floats on the surface of water

• an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

• be in motion due to some air or water current

• be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

• set afloat

• circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with

• move lightly, as if suspended

• put into the water

• make the surface of level or smooth

• allow (currencies) to fluctuate

• convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation

• spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

• a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

• a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

• an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed

• a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election

• a swimmer who floats in the water

• an object that floats or is capable of floating

• an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location

• cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity

• be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity

• a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire

• a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires

• a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)

• transport in a flatbottom boat

• a growth in strength or number or importance

• the act of changing location in an upward direction

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

• the amount a salary is increased

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

• a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

• (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

• an increase in cost

• increase in price or value

• move upward

• increase in value or to a higher point

• rise to one's feet

• rise up

• come to the surface

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• move to a better position in life or to a better job

• go up or advance

• become more extreme

• get up and out of bed

• rise in rank or status

• become heartened or elated

• exert oneself to meet a challenge

• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

• increase in volume

• come up, of celestial bodies

• return from the dead

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• ascend as a sound

• rise up as in fear

• rise to one's feet

• come up, of celestial bodies

• move upward

• return from the dead

• get up and out of bed