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float·ing
[floh-ting] Pronunciation Key
[floh-ting] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 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. | Pathology. away from its proper position, esp. in a downward direction: a floating kidney. |
| 4. | not fixed or settled in a definite place or state: a floating population. |
| 5. | Finance.
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| 6. | Machinery.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| float
(flōt) Pronunciation Key
v. float·ed, float·ing, floats v. intr.
v. tr.
n.
[Middle English floten, from Old English flotian; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.] float'a·ble adj. |
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| float·ing
(flō'tĭng) Pronunciation Key
adj.
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| floating | |
adjective | |
| 1. | borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed" |
| 2. | continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless] |
| 3. | inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game" |
| 4. | (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" |
| 5. | not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters" |
noun | |
| 1. | the act of someone who floats on the water |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
floating float·ing (flō'tĭng)
adj.
- Completely or partially unattached.
- Out of the normal position; unduly movable. Used of certain organs such as the kidney.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: float·ing
Function: adjective
1 : not presently committed or invested <floating capital>
2 : short-term and usually not funded <floating debt>
3 : having no fixed value or rate <floating currencies> <floating interest rates>
Main Entry: float·ing
Function: adjective
1 : not presently committed or invested <floating capital>
2 : short-term and usually not funded <floating debt>
3 : having no fixed value or rate <floating currencies> <floating interest rates>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Floating
Float"ing\, a. 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. --Macaulay. Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail. Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See Bateau. (b) (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock. Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter. Floating dam. (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock. Floating derrick, a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc. Floating dock. (Naut.) See under Dock. Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. --Knight. Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds. Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs. Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage. Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering. Floating pier, a landing stage or pier which rises and falls with the tide. Floating ribs (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which are not connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs. Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat. Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.
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Floating
Float"ing\, n. 1. (Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. 2. The second coat of three-coat plastering. --Knight.
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Floating
Float"ing\, n. The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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