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Definition of Floating
1. Noun. The act of someone who floats on the water.
Generic synonyms: Swim, Swimming
Specialized synonyms: Dead-man's Float, Prone Float
Derivative terms: Float
2. Adjective. Borne up by or suspended in a liquid. "Floating seaweed"
3. Adjective. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. "Vagrant hippies of the sixties"
Similar to: Unsettled
Derivative terms: Aimlessness, Vagabond, Vagabond, Vagrancy, Vagrant
4. Adjective. Inclined to move or be moved about. "A floating crap game"
5. Adjective. (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position. "A floating kidney"
6. Adjective. Not definitely committed to a party or policy. "Floating voters"
Definition of Floating
1. a. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
2. n. Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
3. n. The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.
Definition of Floating
1. float [v] - See also: float
Medical Definition of Floating
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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 Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floating
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