'Floating' definitions:
Definition of 'floating'
From: WordNet
adjective
Borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
adjective
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant]
adjective
Inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"
adjective
(of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position; "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum"; "a floating kidney"
adjective
Not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters"
noun
The act of someone who floats on the water [syn: floating, natation]
Definition of 'Floating'
From: GCIDE
- Float \Float\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floated; p. pr. & vb. n. Floating.] [OE. flotien, flotten, AS. flotian to float, swim, fr. fle['o]tan. See Float, n.]
- 1. To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up. [1913 Webster]
- The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air. [1913 Webster]
- They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- There seems a floating whisper on the hills. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Floating'
From: GCIDE
- Floating \Float"ing\, a.
- 1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. [1913 Webster]
- Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.
- Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place.
- Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See Bateau. (b) (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock.
- Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter.
- Floating dam. (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.
- Floating derrick, a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc.
- Floating dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.
- Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. --Knight.
- Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant ({Limnanthemum lacunosum}) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds.
- Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
- Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wandering.
- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage.
- Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
- Floating pier, a landing stage or pier which rises and falls with the tide.
- Floating ribs (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which are not connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs.
- Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.
- Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Floating'
From: GCIDE
- Floating \Float"ing\, n.
- 1. (Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The second coat of three-coat plastering. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Floating charge
Synonyms of 'floating'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absentee voting,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- aquaplaning,
- aquatics,
- Australian crawl,
- awash,
- backstroke,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- balneation,
- bathe,
- bathing,
- breaststroke,
- buoyant,
- butterfly,
- card voting,
- circumforaneous,
- clear,
- colonization,
- coming out,
- crawl,
- cumulative system,
- cumulative voting,
- curtain raiser,
- debut,
- discursive,
- divagatory,
- diving,
- dog paddle,
- drifting,
- election fraud,
- embarkation,
- embarkment,
- errant,
- fin,
- first appearance,
- fishtail,
- flapper,
- flipper,
- flitting,
- floatable,
- floaty,
- flotation,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- free,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- Hare system,
- inaugural address,
- inauguration,
- induction,
- initiation,
- installation,
- installment,
- introduction,
- landloping,
- launching,
- list system,
- loose,
- maiden speech,
- meandering,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- natation,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- opener,
- plural system,
- PR,
- preferential system,
- preferential voting,
- preliminary,
- proportional representation,
- proxy voting,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- repeating,
- rickety,
- roaming,
- roving,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- sidestroke,
- single system,
- single transferrable vote,
- single-member district,
- straggling,
- straying,
- strolling,
- supernatant,
- surfboarding,
- surfing,
- swim,
- swimming,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- treading water,
- unanchored,
- unbound,
- undone,
- unfastened,
- unfixed,
- unstuck,
- untied,
- unveiling,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vote,
- voting,
- voting machine,
- wading,
- wandering,
- water-borne,
- waterskiing
Words containing 'Floating'
- Float,
- Floated,
- Floatingly,
- Feathering float,
- Float board,
- Float case,
- Float copper,
- Float gold,
- Float ore,
- Float stone,
- Float valve,
- Floating anchor,
- Floating battery,
- Floating bridge,
- Floating cartilage,
- Floating charge,
- Floating dam,
- Floating derrick,
- Floating dock,
- Floating harbor,
- Floating heart,
- Floating island,
- Floating kidney,
- Floating light,
- Floating liver,
- Floating pier,
- Floating ribs,
- Floating screed,
- Floating threads,
- Ice float,
- To float with the stream,
- carling float,
- float carburetor,
- floating debenture,
- floating fern,
- floating mine,
- floating policy,
- floating voter,
- milk float,
- plasterer's float,
- prone float,
- Floating manna grass,
- floating dry dock,
- floating-moss,
- root beer float,
- dead-man's float,
- float-feed carburetor,
- floating-point notation,
- floating-point number,
- floating-point operation,
- ice-cream float,
- floating-point representation system,
- million floating point operations per second,
- trillion floating point operations per second