Floating is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLOATING in dictionary:

VERB:
• rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking
• cause (a buoyant object) to rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid
• be suspended freely in a liquid or gas
• move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift
• (of a rumour, idea, etc.) circulate
• move in a casual or leisurely way
• (in sport) make (the ball) travel lightly and effortlessly through the air
• put forward (an idea) as a suggestion or test of reactions.
• offer the shares of (a company) for sale on the stock market for the first time.
• (of a currency) fluctuate freely in value in accordance with supply and demand in the financial markets
• allow (a currency) to float.
NOUN:
• the act of floating
• a thing that is buoyant in water.
• a small object attached to a fishing line to indicate by moving when a fish bites.
• a cork or buoy supporting the edge of a fishing net.
• a light object held for support by a person learning to swim.
• a hollow or inflated organ enabling an organism (such as the Portuguese man-of-war) to float in the water.
• a hollow structure fixed underneath an aircraft enabling it to take off and land on water.
• a floating device on the surface of a liquid which forms part of a valve apparatus controlling flow in and out of the enclosing container, e.g. in a water cistern or a carburettor.
• a small vehicle or cart, especially one powered by electricity.
• a platform mounted on a truck and carrying a display in a procession
• a sum of money used for change at the beginning of a period of trading in a shop or stall etc., or for minor expenditures.
• a hand tool with a rectangular blade used for smoothing plaster.
• a soft drink with a scoop of ice cream floating in it
• (in critical path analysis) the period of time by which the duration of an activity may be extended without affecting the overall time for the process.
• Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
• The second coat of three-coat plastering.
• the act of someone who floats on the water
ADJECTIVE:
• not fixed
• moving about, changing
• Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
• Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
• Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
• borne up by or suspended in a liquid
• continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
• inclined to move or be moved about
• (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position
• not definitely committed to a party or policy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid

Words related to FLOATING

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How to use FLOATING in a sentence

• We took passage together on one of these floating houses, with the arrangements of which I had now become familiar.
• To him this seemed like being employed in a floating office, visiting the same ports and invariably repeating the same duties.
• The 7th, 8th, and 9th we spent in carrying the loads and dragging and floating the dugouts past the series of rapids at whose head we had stopped.
• Hence, if we had only naval means of defence, it would be best, were such a thing possible, to place the floating defences themselves on this point.
• Straining his eyes, Adam Adams saw a strip of white floating on the water.
• Floating ice, which they had not encountered for ten or fifteen days, now became very frequent.
• He succeeded in floating her off without much damage, and he ran her in the cattle trade for some time.
• Nothing is more enjoyable to a good swimmer than floating.
• The State will also throw open the land it had withdrawn from settlement, pending the floating of this canal project.
• Langhope and Amherst felt as though they must not only gratify every wish she expressed, but try to guess at those they saw floating below the surface of her clear vague eyes.
• You might be interested in a very peculiar tale our modern agents have picked up, floating over and under the iron curtain.
• How they could have got there is a mystery, as there were no large floating masses likely to have carried them from the main.
• There were singing of hymns and the floating of the chief actors on a raft round a sacred lake.
• And with this vision floating in his mind, he determined to make for the Straits.

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