floating natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
dead-man's float prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
air bladder swim bladder float | an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy |
float | something that floats on the surface of water |
float plasterer's float | a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco |
float | an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade |
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 |
life raft Carling float | a raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency |
milk float | a van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to houses |
pontoon bridge bateau bridge floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
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 |
iceream soda iceream float float | a drink with ice cream floating in it |
root beer float | an iceream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer |
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 |
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 |
float | the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public |
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 |
float | the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment |
float | convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation, float data |
float | allow (currencies) to fluctuate, The government floated the ruble for a few months |
float | make the surface of level or smooth, float the plaster |
float | put into the water, float a ship |
float | move lightly, as if suspended, The dancer floated across the stage |
float | set afloat, He floated the logs down the river, The boy floated his toy boat on the pond |
float drift be adrift blow | be in motion due to some air or water current, The leaves were blowing in the wind, the boat drifted on the lake, The sailboat was adrift on the open sea, the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore |
float swim | be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom |
float | circulate or discuss tentatively, test the waters with, The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform |
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 |