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Floating

Floating Meaning & Definition
Floating Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Floating?

[adj] borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
[adj] inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"
[adj] hanging or moving freely in air; "floating thistledown"; "floating banners"
[adj] continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Floating: afloat(p) | aimless | drifting | mobile | moving | unsettled | vagabond | vagrant

Related Terms | Find terms related to Floating: 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 | gypsyish | gypsy-like | 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

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Floating In Webster's Dictionary

\Float"ing\, a. 1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. --Macaulay. {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.
\Float"ing\, n. 1. (Weaving) Floating threads. See {Floating threads}, above. 2. The second coat of three-coat plastering. --Knight.
\Float"ing\, n. The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also {fattening}, {plumping}, and {laying out}.

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