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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floating \Float"ing\, n.
(Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
The second coat of three-coat plastering.
--Knight.The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.
Float \Float\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floated; p. pr. & vb. n. Floating.] [OE. flotien, flotten, AS. flotian to float, swim, fr. fle['o]tan. See Float, n.]
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To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground.
--Milton.Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated.
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To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind.
--Pope.There seems a floating whisper on the hills.
--Byron.
Floating \Float"ing\, a.
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.
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Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. --Macaulay. Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail. Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. Floating bridge.
A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See Bateau.
(Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.
A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power.
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The landing platform of a ferry dock. Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter. Floating dam.
An anchored dam.
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A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.
Floating derrick, a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc.
Floating dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.
Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward.
--Knight.Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant ( Limnanthemum lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds.
Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wandering.
Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage.
Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
Floating pier, a landing stage or pier which rises and falls with the tide.
Floating ribs (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which are not connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs.
Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.
Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.
Wiktionary
1 That which floats or float. 2 Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift. 3 (context linguistics of a tone English) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme. n. (context in the plural English) Material that floats in a liquid. v
(present participle of float English)
WordNet
n. the act of someone who floats on the water
adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant]
inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"
(of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position; "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum"; "a floating kidney" [syn: floating(a)]
not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters" [syn: floating(a)]
borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
Wikipedia
Floating is the third album by the German progressive rock band Eloy. It was released in 1974.
"Floating" is a 2004 single by the Irish band Jape, taken from the second studio album, The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me and described as "Jape's trademark song". Co-produced by David Kitt, the single was the first release from the album and was generally viewed by critics as the standout track on the album. In 2007, it featured on the EP, Jape is Grape, for which a video was made. Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs is a known admirer of the song and has performed a cover version during live shows.
Floating (released October 3, 2005 in Oslo, Norway on the label EmArcy - ) is an album by the Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad.
Floating may refer to:
- a type of dental work performed on horse teeth
- use of an isolation tank
- the guitar-playing technique where chords are sustained rather than scratched
- Floating (dance), a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques closely related to popping
- Floating (play), by Hugh Hughes
- Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping into altered states
- Floating exchange rate, a market-valued currency
- Floating voltage and floating ground, a voltage or ground in an electric circuit that is not connected to the Earth or another reference voltage
- Floating point, a representation in computing of rational numbers most commonly associated with the IEEE 754 standard
"Floating" is a song on The Moody Blues' November 1969 album To Our Children's Children's Children, a concept album about space travel dedicated to NASA and the Apollo 11 astronauts. Written by band flautist Ray Thomas, "Floating" is a jaunty, semi-children's song about a future in which advances in space travel have enabled the Moon to become a family vacation spot. The song's lyrics describe the experience of "Floating" from weightlessness due to the microgravity experienced in space flight.
The third verse sparked some concern in the United States shortly after the album's release. The lines in question are:
Bouncing about on the Moon;
Guess you'll all be up here soon!
The candy stores will be brand new,
And you'll buy rock with the Moon right through!
Ray Thomas's previous outspoken sympathy for LSD advocate Timothy Leary, along with coincidental drug-related slang terms current at the time involving words such as "candy" and "rock," led some Americans to see in "Floating" a coded encouragement to use drugs.
The lyrics, however, have nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with typical British holiday-making. Though he took care to Americanize "sweet shops" into "candy stores," Thomas failed to realize that British-style sweet shops and souvenir candy rock are not the seaside resort fixture in America that they are in Britain. British audiences, on the other hand, instantly understood his image of small shops offering children inexpensive mix-and-match bulk sweets and foot-long candy sticks with the words "The Moon" etched from one end "right through" to the other.
Like " Another Morning" from Days of Future Passed and "Nice To Be Here" from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, "Floating" is one of Ray Thomas's signature "child's world" songs, with simple, catchy melodies and lyrics reflecting a child's perspective.
Floating is the name of a stage production created and performed by "emerging Welsh performance artist" Hugh Hughes, in collaboration with British touring theatre company Hoipolloi. It tells the story of the Isle of Anglesey floating away from the mainland of Wales and voyaging around the world. Hughes performs alongside actor Sioned Rowlands. Hughes introduces the story to the audience and re-enacts the story, playing himself, with Rowlands playing all the other parts.
Floating won a Total Theatre Award at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Following its run in Edinburgh, the show has continued to tour to venues and festivals across the World including Sydney Opera House, Barbican Centre, Barrow Street Theatre in New York and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver.
Since Floating, Hugh Hughes has created two new stage shows, Story of a Rabbit and 360.
In September 2011, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a new version of Floating as an Afternoon Play.
Usage examples of "floating".
In another hour I had the se acock installed, the line freed from the keel and the boat floating upright in her shady berth.
Out in the amphitheater, the afanc finished chasing down the stray bits of bodies left floating in the water.
I told Alake to keep an eye on the floating human, took Devon to deck two, the topmost part of the waterlock.
For the Amar, floating ghosts were the most horrible of monsters, creatures unkillable that sucked the souls from the bodies of helpless, hapless warriors foolish enough to venture within the mists.
Above eighty gun-boats and bomb-ketches were to second the operations of the floating batteries, together with a multitude of frigates and smaller vessels, while the combined fleets of France and Spain amounting to fifty sail of the line, were to cover and support the attack.
And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber--instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Christmas Day in Australia.
The powerful motor lifted the craft high out of the water, and Aragon leaned forward, watching the surface for any floating logs.
His gaze traveled from the filmy pink scarf draping her throat and floating behind her to the deep pink bandeau covering her breasts and finally to the volumnious extravagance of the matching harem pajamas.
The only light now came from the bioluminescence of microscopic creatures floating in the heavy air.
The floating effect came from the hands that dragged him back into the bus, along with Baybrock, Bleer and the senseless drivers.
Floating up in the bright blue sky where the sun ought to have been was a flying policeman looking happily down on the crayon house.
I was almost lulled into sleep by the red-and-white plastic bobbers floating on the murky green surface of the lake.
Many floating bombardons which were not designed for such conditions broke from their moorings and crashed into other breakwaters and the anchored shipping.
Captain Isbell had been up all night working out new attack techniques to smother U-boats that tried to fight it out, and to such good purpose that U-664 was bombed helpless and the crew abandoned ship, leaving 44 floating survivors for Boric to pick up.
Maia and Brod ducked again, having caught sight of an expanse of floating bits and flinders, logs and loosely tethered boxes, along with one drifting, grotesquely ruined body.