floating
natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
| wire-haired fox terrier | a fox terrier with wiry hair |
wirehair
wirehaired terrier
wire-haired terrier | a terrier with wiry hair |
| griffon wire-haired pointing griffon | breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat, originated in Holland but largely developed in France |
| baling wire | wire used to make bales |
barbed wire
barbwire | strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage |
| bead | a small ball with a hole through the middle |
beading
bead beadwork
astragal | a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture |
| chicken wire | a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh, used to build fences |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
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 |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
| high wire | a tightrope very high above the ground |
| piano wire | thin steel wire of high tensile strength |
pontoon bridge
bateau bridge
floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
quirk bead
bead and quirk | beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates |
telephone wire
telephone line telegraph wire
telegraph line | the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals |
| trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
| wire | ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc |
| wire conducting wire | a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance |
| wire cloth | fabric woven of metallic wire |
| wire cutter | an edge tool used in cutting wire |
wire gauge
wire gage | gauge for measuring the diameter of wire |
wire matrix printer
wire printer
stylus printer | an impact printer in which each character is represented by a pattern of dots made by wires or styli |
| wire recorder | an early type of magnetic recorder using iron wire |
| wire stripper | a hand tool used by electricians to remove insulation from the cut end of an insulated wire |
floater
floating policy | an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location |
| shrink-wrapped software | software on CD-ROMs that are boxed and shrink-wrapped and sold in stores (implying a widely supported standard platform) |
telegram
wire | a message transmitted by telegraph |
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 |
| trip wire | a small military force that serves as a first line of defense, if they become engaged in hostilities it will trigger the intervention of stronger military forces |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
| wire | the finishing line on a racetrack |
eager beaver
busy bee
live wire
sharpie sharpy | an alert and energetic person |
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 |
| wire-puller | one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends |
white baneberry
white cohosh
white bead
doll's eyes
Actaea alba | North American herb with white poisonous berries |
cat'slaw
catclaw
black bead
Pithecellodium unguisati | erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds, West Indies and Florida |
malheur wire lettuce
Stephanomeria malheurensis | a small plant of Oregon resembling mustard, a threatened species |
yardgrass
yard grass
wire grass goose grass Eleusine indica | coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers, native to Old World tropics, a naturalized weed elsewhere |
broom beard grass
prairie grass
wire grass Andropogon scoparius
Schizachyrium scoparium | handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn |
bead tree
jumby bean
jumby tree
Ormosia monosperma | small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers, seeds are black or scarlet with black spots |
jumby bead
jumbie bead
Ormosia coarctata | West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds |
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 |
sensitive fern
bead fern
Onoclea sensibilis | beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe, pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched, pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes |
floating-point operation
flop | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers, this computer can perform a million flops per second |