Definition of floating

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Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..

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Cymophanous :: Cymophanous (a.) Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant..
Boom :: Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away..
Pad :: Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced..
Lepas :: Lepas (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle..
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Natatory :: Natatory (a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs..
Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.
Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..
Car :: Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Bead Proof :: Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters..
Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..
Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Floating :: Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..
Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
#NAME? :: -tre (n.) The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium..
Miasma :: Miasma (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Vapor :: Vapor (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc..
Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..
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