 floating |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] hanging or moving freely in air | |
| Examples: | "floating thistledown" "floating banners" |
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| Related terms: | moving | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] not definitely committed to a party or policy | |
| Examples: | "floating voters" |
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| Related terms: | uncommitted | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] inclined to move or be moved about | |
| Examples: | "a floating crap game" |
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| Related terms: | mobile | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position | |
| Examples: | "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum" "a floating kidney" |
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| Related terms: | unfixed | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | |
| Synonyms: | drifting vagabond vagrant aimless | |
| Examples: | "a drifting double-dealer" "the floating population" "vagrant hippies of the sixties" |
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| Related terms: | unsettled | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (sport) the act of someone who floats on the water | |
| Related terms: | swimming dead-man's_float float | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] borne up by or suspended in a liquid | |
| Examples: | "the ship is still floating" "floating logs" "floating seaweed" |
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| Related terms: | afloat | |
| Similar spelling: |
fluting flooding fleeting flatten flood_in flattened Flaten flatten_out |
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