floating in English

adjective

1

buoyant or suspended in water or air.

a massive floating platform

synonyms: buoyant, on the surface, afloat, drifting, hovering, levitating, suspended, hanging, defying gravity

2

not settled in a definite place; fluctuating or variable.

the floating population that is migrating to the cities

synonyms: unsettled, transient, temporary, variable, fluctuating, migrant, wandering, nomadic, on the move, migratory, traveling, drifting, roving, roaming, itinerant, vagabond, variable, changeable, changing, fluid, fluctuating

verb

1

rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking.

she relaxed, floating gently in the water

synonyms: stay afloat, stay on the surface, be buoyant, be buoyed up

2

move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift.

clouds floated across a brilliant blue sky

synonyms: hover, levitate, be suspended, hang, defy gravity, drift, glide, sail, slip, slide, waft

3

put forward (an idea) as a suggestion or test of reactions.

A similar idea was floated in March this year by Southampton Test MP Alan Whitehead following an energy summit held in the city last year.

synonyms: suggest, put forward, come up with, submit, moot, propose, advance, test the popularity of, run something up the flagpole (to see who salutes)

4

(of a currency) fluctuate freely in value in accordance with supply and demand in the financial markets.

a policy of letting the pound float

adjective

buoyant, on the surface, afloat, drifting
hovering, levitating, suspended, hanging, defying gravity
uncommitted, undecided, of two minds, torn, split, uncertain, unsure, wavering, vacillating, indecisive, blowing hot and cold, undeclared, sitting on the fence
unsettled, transient, temporary, variable, fluctuating, migrant, wandering, nomadic, on the move, migratory, traveling, drifting, roving, roaming, itinerant, vagabond
variable, changeable, changing, fluid, fluctuating
vagrant, aimless, drifting, vagabond

noun

natation
natation

verb

stay afloat, hover, drift, suggest, swim
stay afloat, stay on the surface, be buoyant, be buoyed up
hover, levitate, be suspended, hang, defy gravity
drift, glide, sail, slip, slide, waft
suggest, put forward, come up with, submit, moot, propose, advance, test the popularity of, run something up the flagpole (to see who salutes)
drift, be adrift, blow
swim

Use "floating" in a sentence

1. I'm floating.

2. I'm floating...

3. Ugh, floating cars.

4. Floating Custodians Mehlville School District also has openings for floating Custodians

5. Floating market, Vietnam

6. Bluet is an expert in floating infrastructure and floating solution design and delivery

7. For complex selections: use the command Selection → Floating to create a floating selection.

8. Floating through the air.

9. A floating point value

10. Aerofoils for floating vessels

11. Bobber is floating drift.

12. A floating display device

13. Various types of structure are used: steel jacket, concrete caisson, floating steel, and even floating concrete.

14. Colonial Scented candle, floating waters

15. I'll be floating on air

16. Multi-stage floating-point accumulator

17. Me was a floating head.

18. Tap the floating video bubble.

19. Floating in somebody else's pool?

20. They become mobile, floating ecosystems.

21. You're floating on air now

22. Floating window background color setting.

23. Floating alarm for self-defense

24. Acclimating Fish With The Floating Method

25. Al, you're floating in thin air.

26. Look at that, just floating there.

27. Butterfly wings fly as if floating

28. Floating point variables are stored in binary floating point format with their least significant byte first.

29. Battened timber board floating floor systems

30. Gossamer is floating in calm air.

31. F, move on to floating wheatgerm.

32. Floating Bellsor impede the underwater current

33. The E volution of floating Armouries

34. Afloat definition, floating or borne on the water; in a floating condition: The ship was set Afloat

35. Brailing salmon from a floating trap

36. Adaptive floating flange for ostomy appliance

37. SIGFPE signal (" Floating-point exception (ANSI) "

38. Mine doesn't have the floating heads.

39. Impalpable ideas floating through his mind.

40. They look like floating grain silos.

41. Floating rate reset frequency leg 1 – multiplier

42. And then I saw him floating facedown.

43. Track roller , carrier roller, idler are mounted with long life well sealed - cone floating ring - floating ring seal.

44. Ashland Floating Candles Value Pack, 20 Count

45. A balloon was floating in the air.

46. Those floating, flat faces, those dead eyes.

47. Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands,

48. We are floating here on this floating hotel, on one of the largest rivers on Earth, the Negro River.

49. Floating Fantail My White Fantail spends most of its time either floating at the surface, or lying on the bottom.

50. A floating point value, greater than zero