English to English
adjective
- Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- the act of someone who floats on the water
source: WordNet 3.0
- Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
source: Webster 1913
- The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- borne up by or suspended in a liquid
The ship is still floating.
Floating logs.
Floating seaweed.
source: WordNet 3.0
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
A drifting double-dealer.
The floating population.
Vagrant hippies of the sixties.
source: WordNet 3.0
- inclined to move or be moved about
A floating crap game.
source: WordNet 3.0
- (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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- not definitely committed to a party or policy
Floating voters.
source: WordNet 3.0
