English Explanatory Dictionary

floating

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. That floats or float.
  2. Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
  3. that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of float
noun
  1. The motion of something that floats.
  2. Material that floats in a liquid.
  3. The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
  4. A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.

Pronunciation

/ˈfloʊtɪŋ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-floating.wav /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/

Word forms

floating floatings

Etymology

By surface analysis, float + -ing.

Derived words

flixel floating academy floating beacon floating bog floating bridge floating car data floating cellular data floating collar floating dock floating feeling floating gold floating ground floating heart floating island floating kidney floating light floatingly floating market floating panel floating point floating-point floating-point number floating-point operation floating point operation floating point processor floating-point unit floating rate floating rib floating screed floating signifier floating tone floating vote floating voter floating wind turbine floating wood tile free-floating planet nonfloating unfloating
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on F Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary