Adjective floating has 5 senses
  1. 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"
    Antonym: settled (indirect, via unsettled)
  2. floating - inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"
    Antonym:
    immobile (indirect, via mobile)
  3. floating - (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"
    Antonym:
    fixed (indirect, via unfixed)
  4. floating - not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters"
    Antonym:
    committed (indirect, via uncommitted)
  5. floating - borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
    Antonym:
    aground (indirect, via sunken, afloat)
    Antonyms: sunken, submerged (indirect, via afloat, aground)
,Noun floating has 1 sense
  1. floating - the act of someone who floats on the water
    --1 is a kind of
    swimming, swim
    --1 has particulars: dead-man's float, prone float
    Derived form: verb float2
,Verb float has 9 senses
  1. 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"
    --1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  2. float, swim - be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink
    --2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Antonyms: sink, settle, go down, go under
    Derived forms: noun floating1, noun floater6, noun floater7, noun float6, noun floatation1, noun flotation1
    Sample sentence:
    These cars won't float
  3. float - set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
    --3 is one way to
    transport
    Derived forms: noun float6, noun floatation1, noun flotation1
    Sample sentence:
    The girls float the wooden sticks
  4. float - circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
    --4 is one way to
    test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  5. float - move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage"
    --5 is one way to
    travel, go, move, locomote
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  6. float - put into the water; "float a ship"
    --6 is one way to
    launch
    Derived forms: noun float6, noun floatation1, noun flotation1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  7. float - make the surface of level or smooth; "float the plaster"
    --7 is one way to
    smooth, smoothen
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  8. float - allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
    --8 is one way to
    value
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  9. float - convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
    --9 is one way to
    convert, change over
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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