Floating
11floating — adjective Date: 1600 1. buoyed on or in a fluid 2. located out of the normal position < a floating kidney > 3. a. continually drifting or changing position < the floating population > b. not presently committed or invested < floating capital > …
12floating — adjective 1) floating seaweed Syn: buoyant, on the surface, afloat, drifting Ant: sunken 2) floating helium balloons Syn: hovering, levitating, suspended, hangi …
13floating — floatingly, adv. /floh ting/, adj. 1. being buoyed up on water or other liquid. 2. having little or no attachment to a particular place; moving from one place to another: a floating work force. 3. Pathol. away from its proper position, esp. in a… …
14floating — / fləυtɪŋ/ noun ♦ floating of a company the act of starting a new company by selling shares in it on the Stock Exchange ■ adjective which is not fixed ● floating exchange rates ● the floating pound ▪▪▪ ‘…in a world of floating exchange rates the… …
15floating — float|ing1 [ˈfləutıŋ US ˈflou ] adj [only before noun] often changing, and not staying the same ▪ You can choose either a fixed or floating interest rate for the loan. ▪ The area has a large floating population. floating 2 floating2 n [U] the… …
16floating — float|ing [ floutıŋ ] adjective * not fixed or permanent, and therefore likely to change: a floating exchange rate floating population: a floating population of migrant workers …
17floating — adjective 1 floating population if a city has a floating population, the number of people who live there keeps changing because people move into and out of it 2 technical an organ or part of your body that is floating is not properly connected or …
18floating */ — UK [ˈfləʊtɪŋ] / US [ˈfloʊtɪŋ] adjective not fixed or permanent, and therefore likely to change a floating exchange rate floating population: a floating population of migrant workers …
19floating — float•ing [[t]ˈfloʊ tɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) being buoyed up on water or other liquid 2) moving from one place to another: a floating work force[/ex] 3) pat (of a body part or organ) away from its proper position, esp. in a downward direction: a floating …
20Floating — 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… …
