floater
Use Floater in a sentence
tər noun
1.
a person or thing that floats.
2.
Informal. a person who is continually changing his or her place of abode, employment, etc.
3.
U.S. politics. a voter not attached to any party, especially a person whose vote may be purchased.
4.
a person who fraudulently votes, usually for pay, in different places in the same election.
5.
Animal Behavior. a territorial animal that has been unable to claim a territory and is forced into undefended, marginal areas with limited resources.
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7.
Also called floating policy. Insurance. a policy that insures movable personal property.
8.
Finance. any security or note that has a floating rate.
9.
Medicine/Medical Slang. a corpse found floating in a body of water.
10.
Australian. a meat pie served in a plate of gravy or pea soup.
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Floater
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that floats |
| 2. | any of a number of dark spots that appear in one's vision as a result of dead cells or fragments in the lens or vitreous humour of the eye |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian) |
| a. a person of no fixed political opinion | |
| b. a person who votes illegally in more than one district at one election | |
| c. a voter who can be bribed | |
| 4. | (US), (Canadian) insurance Also called: floating policy a policy covering loss or theft of or damage to movable property, such as jewels or furs, regardless of its location |
| 5. | informal (US) a person who often changes employment, residence, etc; drifter |
| 6. | (Austral) a loose gold- or opal-bearing rock |
| 7. | (Austral) (esp in Adelaide) a meat pie in a plate of pea soup |
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Example sentences
When a floater dies, this large mussel with a thick shell will actually rise to the water surface and float as it decays.
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