Floating

What do we mean by floating?

Buoyed on or suspended in or as if in a fluid. adjective

Not secured in place; unattached. adjective

Inclined to move or be moved about. adjective

Permitted to rise or fall in response to the market. adjective

Having an exchange rate or interest rate that rises or falls in response to the market. adjective

Being short-term debt that is continuously refinanced. adjective

Available for use; in circulation. Used of capital. adjective

Designed or constructed to operate smoothly and without vibration. adjective

Of or relating to an organ of the body that is movable or out of normal position. adjective

Borne on the surface of the water or other liquid, or on the air: as, a floating leaf; floating islands.

Not fixed or settled in a definite state or place; fluctuating: as, floating population.

Free; disconnected; unattached: as, the floating ribs in some fishes.

In finance: Composed of sums of varying amount due at different but specified dates; unfunded: as, a large floating debt.

Not fixed or definitely invested; not appropriated to any fixed permanent investment, as in lands, buildings, machinery, etc., but ready to be used as occasion demands; in circulation or use: as, floating capital (opposed to fixed capital). See capital.

The process of fattening oysters and scallops by placing them in fresh or brackish water, thus causing the tissues to become distended. See float, n., 1 , and float, v. t., 3. Also known as fattening, laying out, and plumping. noun

The act of supporting one's self, or the state of being supported or borne, on the surface of water or other liquid; flotation. noun

In agriculture, the flooding or overflowing of meadow-lands. noun

The spreading of stucco or plaster on the surface of walls, etc.; also, the second coat of three-coat plastering-work. noun

A method of obtaining pigments and other materials in a very finely divided state. noun

Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface.

To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.

To be capable of floating.

To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating

To drift or wander aimlessly.

To drift gently through the air.

To move in a fluid manner.

To circulate.

(of an idea or scheme) To be viable.

To propose (an idea) for consideration.

To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.

(of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.

To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.

To extend a short-term loan to.

To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.

To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.

To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.

To transport by float (vehicular trailer).

To perform a float.

To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.

Words that are spelled similarly to floating:
floating, flating, bloating, flouting, gloating, fleeting, footing, coating, gloaming, loathing, plating, loading, flaming, flowing, flooding, loaming, flocking, flooring, flogging, flirting, moating, flaring, looting, plotting, fating, frosting, bloting, flaking, flopping, loafing, flitting, flossing, bleating, boating, fronting, fluting, blotting, flatting, foaming, fellating, louting, elating, flaying, locating, slotting, clotting, slating, cloaking, flawing, stoating, foliating, flyting, lofting, loaning, fleaking, lotting, pleating, floatier, fixating, clouting, cleating, foaling, doating, flouring, flatling, fliting, flinting, blating, flopwing, floatant, refloating, filiating, forting, flobbing, goating, -loading, floing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word floating:
drydock, pontoon, rafts, moored, dock, docks, arithmetic, barge, mats, float, logs, towed, debris, integer, vegetation, crane, batteries, harbour, offshore, submerged, processor, anchored, precision, shallow, instructions, aquatic, clouds, point, battery, vessel, pier, underwater, bridge, fixed, barracks, storage, currency, vessels, boats, restaurant, mines, bridges, preferred, dry, platforms, surface, charge, gate, boat, pool, rate, platform, ocean, harbor, water, ship, exchange, ice, wind, plants, waters, habitat, objects, ferry, instruction, repair, shore, sky.

Words that rhyme with floating:
doting, coating, voting, bloating, toting, gloating, promoting, noting, boating, denoting, quoting, scapegoating, devoting, throating, nonvoting, footnoting, misquoting, multiple voting, outvoting, supervoting, boat hung, buffalo tongue, coat hung, eskimo tongue, goetting, ho tung, koetting, no tongue, note hung, overcoat hung, slow tongue, tho tongue.

Adjectives that are often used to describe floating:
free, dead, white, fat, dirty, generalized, more, full, pure, clean, much, black, left, lemon, green, jellyfish, solid, ark, successful, independent, red, managed, yellow, quantifier, standard, widespread, mere, dark, huge, weed, light, generalised, soft, quarter, down, half, controlled, joint, tiny, semi, liquid, fetus, easy, double, subsequent, loose, passive, mote, strange, brown, thick, slow, sovereign, pale, froth, temporary, reed, fixed, weightless, gentle, wreath, leaf, visible, longer.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective floating:
point, anxiety, rate, gate, zone, attention, plants, axle, cells, type, sections, swap, hostility, matter, number, resources, signifiers, roof, rates, organisms, signifier, anger, subdivisions, batteries, forms, thrombus, aggression, island, body, intellectuals, axles, fear, algae, particles, anxieties, castles, intelligentsia, individuals, species, objects, head, discussion, dock, swaps, pins, guilt, operations, ideas, entities, numbers, regime, islands, ice, window, images, wreckage, bacteria, pin, plant, object, mass, rage, entity, ring, eggs, energy, masses, feelings, bodies, feeling, bridge, segment, battery, fragments, fantasy, flies, debris, barrel, quality, image, desire, currency, charge, fly, channel.

Consonant match to floating:
fleeting, flirting, flouting, flitting, fluting, flatting, flyting, flighting, flat tongue.

Words that sound like floating:
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