Crossword clues for floater
floater
- Oft-relocated employee
- A debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- An employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- A voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
- An insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
- Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floater \Float"er\, n.
One who floats or swims.
A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
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(Politics)
A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable. [U. S.]
A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own. [U. S.]
A person who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who or that which floats," 1717, agent noun from float (v.). From 1847 in political slang for an independent voter (but with suggestion of purchasability); 1859 as "one who frequently changes place of residence or employment." Meaning "dead body found in water" is 1890, U.S. slang.
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of float; one who or that which floats. 2 An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away. 3 A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour. 4 An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests. 5 (''insurance'') A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit. 6 (''police jargon'') A floating corpse picked up from a body of water. 7 (context sports English) An unaffiliated player. 8 (context surfing English) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave. 9 (context vulgar English) A piece of faeces that floats. 10 (context slang by extension English) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” that person. 11 (context two-up English) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air. 12 (context AU English) A pie floater. 13 (cx politics English) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased. 14 (cx politics US English) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own. 15 (cx US politics English) One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
WordNet
n. spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens [syn: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, spots]
a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, vagabond]
an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
a swimmer who floats in the water
an object that floats or is capable of floating
an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location [syn: floating policy]
Wikipedia
Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's vitreous humour, which is normally transparent. At a young age, the vitreous is transparent, but as one ages, imperfections gradually develop. The common type of floater, which is present in most persons' eyes, is due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour. The perception of floaters is known as myodesopsia, or less commonly as myodaeopsia, myiodeopsia, or myiodesopsia. They are also called Muscae volitantes (Latin: "flying flies"), or mouches volantes (from the French). Floaters are visible because of the shadows they cast on the retina or refraction of the light that passes through them, and can appear alone or together with several others in one's visual field. They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of cobwebs, which float slowly before the observer's eyes. As these objects exist within the eye itself, they are not optical illusions but are entoptic phenomena. They are not to be confused with visual snow, although these two conditions may co-exist.
A floater is a shadow-like shape that appears singly or together with several others in the field of vision of some individuals.
Floater may also mean:
- Floater (band), a band based in Portland, Oregon
- The Floaters, an R&B singing group of the 1970s
- Floating rate note, in finance, a bond with variable coupon rates
- Pie floater, an Australian meal comprising a meat pie floating in pea soup.
- " Floater (Too Much to Ask)," a song from the 2001 Bob Dylan album Love and Theft
- Floating rib, a bone in the human rib cage not connected to the sternum
Floater is an American rock band currently based in Portland, Oregon. The band was started in 1993 by Robert Wynia, Peter Cornett and David Amador. They are known for their progressive concept albums, stylized storytelling, intense live performances, and devoted fanbase. Floater routinely sells out local venues in Oregon and periodically plays shows in the neighboring states of Washington, California, Nevada, and Idaho. Floater has played a variety of venues, including CBGB in New York and the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. The band was also a musical guest for Live Wire Radio on OPB radio. The band has been voted the "Best Band" in the Willamette Week's "Best of Portland" reader's poll for 2009 and 2010.
Usage examples of "floater".
Maylo into the backseat, left Booly to fend for himself, and circled the floater to take his position behind the controls.
Maia watched from the precipice, along with Brod and several women, remembering the last time she had seen big floaters like these, though nowhere near this many.
Rather, they had resigned themselves and their budlings to less than their share of the wonders of the modern world: houses that thought, scudders and floaters, falqon-mail that flew from continent to continent where pitchens had only skimmed, communications that no longer called for nervograps, recordimals offering faithful transcriptions of the greatest thinkers and entertainers, newsimals and scentimals and haulimals, and the rest.
But when Kylla broke into a gallop over a meadow flecked with white hearthwhistle and golden violets, and Ran laughed and went after her, Eln put out his hand to the front of my floater.
And in opening my report of the complex case of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, my Cousin Angela, my Aunt Dahlia, my Uncle Thomas, young Tuppy Glossop and the cook, Anatole, with the above spot of dialogue, I see that I have made the second of these two floaters.
Romblit division lands at Beregesh with strong floater support, under heavy fire from log-and-earth bunkers, including lobbers and blast hoses not evidenced before.
At about 4:30 Lotta called back, and arrived just before five, popping over in her four-place floater.
And he was saving the lives of the two Mues inside the floater, he argued with himself.
Navigorn had brought his army quickly down from its hilltop position, a battalion of small floaters at the center that were equipped with low-caliber energy-throwers, flanked by two squadrons of mounted spearsmen, and the mass of the infantry held back to the rear.
What comes back are floaters and wrigglers and squirmers, none bigger than a little finger.
I picked out the stunner by its parabolic reflector, the cameras, and a toroidal coil that had to be part of the floater device.
Sealer Greenlaw and Chief Venn, now supplied with floaters, awaiting them.
Even as he was turning the floater controls to manual, Billy Antrim had the first twinge of doubt about the philosophy in which he had been raised.
Grimacing, he allowed Ekaterin and ghem-General Benin to help him from the van into a floater.
Bel dipped its floater for Benin to press the beribboned roll into its hands, and though its eyes were bright with irony, murmured thanks to the distant Fletchir Giaja in return, and kept its sense of humor, for once, under full control.