Floating

Quick meaning: Floating is an adjective meaning That floats or float.

Meaning

That floats or float.

More Meanings

1. Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
2. (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
3. present participle and gerund of float
4. The motion of something that floats.
5. (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
6. The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
7. (veterinary medicine) A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.

Example Sentences

floating buoys

Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.

You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.

"And I am much mistaken if she has not some floating fancy of her own."

Word Forms

• floatings

Synonyms for floating

Depending on context, synonyms include vagrant, vagabond, unsettled, moving, aimless, drifting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include afloat, drifting, mobile, moving, vagabond, vagrant.

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