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Floating

adjective

1.

Borne up by or suspended in a liquid. "Floating logs" , "Floating seaweed"

2.

Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. Synonyms: aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant. "The floating population" , "Vagrant hippies of the sixties"

3.

Inclined to move or be moved about.

4.

(of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position. "A floating kidney"

5.

Not definitely committed to a party or policy.

noun

1.

The act of someone who floats on the water. Synonym: natation.

Float

verb

(past & past part. floated; pres. part. floating)

1.

Be in motion due to some air or water current. Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift. "The boat drifted on the lake" , "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" , "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

2.

Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom. Synonym: swim. Antonym: sink.

3.

Set afloat. "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

4.

Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with.

5.

Move lightly, as if suspended.

6.

Put into the water.

7.

Make the surface of level or smooth.

8.

Allow (currencies) to fluctuate.

9.

Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation.

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"Floating" Quotes from Famous Books

... dawn as the two passed over the bridge and by the miller's house, and they could see the fish floating dead on the surface of the mill-race, and poor Oscar the dog lying stretched on the bank, with his tongue hanging out stiff and cold. And silently wondering at all these strange things the little ...

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— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson

... visitable families could be entirely left out. No youthful figure there was comparable to Gwendolen's as she passed through the long suite of rooms adorned with light and flowers, and, visible at first as a slim figure floating along in white drapery, approached through one wide doorway after another into fuller illumination and definiteness. She had never had that sort of promenade before, and she felt exultingly that it befitted her: any one looking at her for the first time might have supposed that ...

— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

... a little paler than they ought to be. But the little veins traversing the whites of the eyes have already assumed a very encouraging appearance. The blood is almost entirely restored. What is the blood? Red globules floating in serum, or a sort of whey. The serum in poor Fougas was dried up in his veins; the water which we have gradually introduced by a slow endosmose has saturated the albumen and fibrin of the serum, which is returned to ...

— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About

... been shipwrecked? Floating around in an open boat? Didn't believe it was done, except in Perilous Polly Feature Fillum Bunk! Ph-e-ew!" and Little relapsed into ...

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