floating natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
threadfish thread-fish Alectis ciliaris | fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins |
floating dock floating dry dock | dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised |
floating mine marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
lisle lisle thread | a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton) |
pontoon bridge bateau bridge floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
screw thread thread | the raised helical rib going around a screw |
thread yarn | a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving |
togs threads duds | informal terms for clothing |
train of thought thread | the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together, I couldn't follow his train of thought, he lost the thread of his argument |
floater floating policy | an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location |
floating-point notation floating-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix, in the floating-point representation system, . is represented as .- where - is the exponent |
ribbon thread | any long object resembling a thin line, a mere ribbon of land, the lighted ribbon of traffic, from the air the road was a grey thread, a thread of smoke climbed upward |
spinner spinster thread maker | someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) |
swing voter floating voter | a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other |
goldthread golden thread Coptis groenlandica Coptis trifolia groenlandica | low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers |
Adam's needle Adam's needle-and-thread spoonleaf yucca needle palm Yucca filamentosa | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |
floating-moss Salvinia rotundifolia Salvinia auriculata | free-floating aquatic ferns |
mosquito fern floating fern Carolina pond fern Azolla caroliniana | small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America, naturalized in western and southern Europe |
floating fern water sprite Ceratopteris pteridioides | aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums |
floating fern Ceratopteris thalictroides | pantropical aquatic fern |
floating-point operation flop | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers, this computer can perform a million flops per second |
floating-point number | a number represented in floating-point notation |
megaflop MFLOP million floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
teraflop trillion floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
thread blight | a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus) |
string thread draw e | thread on or as if on a string, string pearls on a string, the child drew glass beads on a string, thread dried cranberries |
thread | pass through or into, thread tape, thread film |
thread | remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string, She had her eyebrows threaded |
thread | pass a thread through, thread a needle |
weave wind thread meander wander | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course, the river winds through the hills, the path meanders through the vineyards, sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body |
hang by a thread hang by a hair | depend on a small thing or be at risk, His life now hangs by a thread |
floating | borne up by or suspended in a liquid, the ship is still floating, floating logs, floating seaweed |
floating(a) | not definitely committed to a party or policy, floating voters |
floating(a) | (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 |
floating | inclined to move or be moved about, a floating crap game |
aimless drifting floating vagabond vagrant | continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another, a drifting double-dealer, the floating population, vagrant hippies of the sixties |