Floating
['fləʊtɪŋ] or ['flotɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of someone who floats on the water.
(adj.) borne up by or suspended in a liquid; 'the ship is still floating'; 'floating logs'; 'floating seaweed' .
(adj.) inclined to move or be moved about; 'a floating crap game' .
(adj.) not definitely committed to a party or policy; 'floating voters' .
(adj.) (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' .
Editor: Tracy--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float
(a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
(a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
(a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
(n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
(n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
Inputed by Giles
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of floating, denotes that you will victoriously overcome obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming you. If the water is muddy your victories will not be gratifying.
Inputed by Harlow
Examples
- Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- These discoveries, added to the long observed fact of coal oil floating on streams in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, led to the search for its natural source. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Floating in deep blue space, it watched her unclouded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He sees some object that's in his way of business, floating. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But it was like a bubble floating in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The lamp placed against the post by Clym still shone across the water, and the reddleman observed something floating motionless. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Doctor Manette received such patients here as his old reputation, and its revival in the floating whispers of his story, brought him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- On his passage he observed the singular effect produced by the agitation of a vessel containing oil floating on water. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- What seems plainer than that the long toes, not furnished with membrane, of the Grallatores, are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What Causes Floating Islands? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You remember the night when I first looked in here, and found you floating your powerful mind in tea? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To him all particulars appear to be floating about in a world of sense; they have a taint of error or even of evil. Plato. The Republic.
Checker: Presley