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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Displacement :: Displacement (n.) The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body..
Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
Wave :: Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft..
Water Shield :: Water shield () An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly..
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..
Whirlpool :: Whirlpool (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like..
Superfluities :: Superfluitant (a.) Floating above or on the surface.
Supernatural :: Supernatation (n.) The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.
Floating :: Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..
Mote :: Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck..
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..
Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.
#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..
Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..
Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..
Pad :: Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Sandiver :: Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..
Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..
Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
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