floating
natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
implosion therapy
flooding | a technique used in behavior therapy, client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them |
| acrylic acrylic paint | used especially by artists |
| antifouling paint | a paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces |
casein paint
casein | a water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk |
| coat of paint | a layer of paint covering something else |
finger paint
fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
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 |
house paint
housepaint | paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house |
latex paint
latex
rubber-base paint | a water-base paint that has a latex binder |
makeup
make-up
war paint | cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance |
| oil paint | paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle |
paint
pigment | a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid), dries to form a hard coating, artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably |
| paint roller | a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint |
pontoon bridge
bateau bridge
floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
rouge
paint blusher | makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks |
| spray paint | paint applied with a spray gun |
tempera
poster paint
poster color
poster colour | pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk |
| war paint | full ceremonial regalia |
| war paint | adornment consisting of paint applied to the face and body of certain Amerindians before a battle |
| water-base paint | paint in which water is used as the vehicle |
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 |
key
paint | (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court, usually painted a different color from the rest of the court, he hit a jump shot from the top of the key, he dominates play in the paint |
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 |
strawberry blite
strawberry pigweed
Indian paint
Chenopodium capitatum | European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit, naturalized North America |
hoary puccoon
Indian paint Lithospermum canescens | perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment |
Japanese poinsettia
mole plant paint leaf
Euphorbia heterophylla | showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru |
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 |
gild the lily
paint the lily | make unnecessary additions to what is already complete |
| suggest evoke paint a picture | call to mind, this remark evoked sadness |
| paint | apply paint to, coat with paint, We painted the rooms yellow |
| paint | apply a liquid to, e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil |
gild the lily
paint the lily | adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful) |
| finger-paint | apply colors with one's fingers |
| paint | make a painting of, He painted his mistress many times |
| paint | make a painting, he painted all day in the garden, He painted a painting of the garden |
| 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 |