Definition of floating

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Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..

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Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Pad :: Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..
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..
Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.
Car :: Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..
Natatory :: Natatory (a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs..
Supernatant :: Supernatant (a.) Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Cymophanous :: Cymophanous (a.) Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant..
Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
Floss :: Floss (n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present..
Floating :: Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floa.
Vapor :: Vapor (n.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate..
Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something..
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