floating
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Adjective edit
floating (not comparable)
- That floats or float.
- floating buoys
- Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
- The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.
- In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.
- You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 198:
- "And I am much mistaken if she has not some floating fancy of her own."
- (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
Derived terms edit
- floating academy
- floating beacon
- floating bridge
- floating car data
- floating cellular data
- floating dock
- floating feeling
- floating gold
- floating ground
- floating heart
- floating island
- floating kidney
- floating light
- floating market
- floating point, floating-point
- floating-point number
- floating point operation
- floating-point operation
- floating-point unit
- floating rate
- floating rib
- floating screed
- floating signifier
- floating tone
- floating vote
- floating voter
- floating wind turbine
- floating wood tile
- free-floating planet
Translations edit
that floats
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not fixed
Verb edit
floating
- present participle and gerund of float
Noun edit
floating (plural floatings)
- The motion of something that floats.
- (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
- 1898, Journal of Microscopy, page 256:
- Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
- The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
- (veterinary medicine) A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.