floating

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ

Adjective

floating (not comparable)

1. That floats or float.

   floating buoys

2. Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.

   The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.

   In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.

   You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.

3. (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.

Derived terms

Terms derived from floating

• floating dock
• floating feeling
• floating island

• floating kidney
• floating palette
• floating point, floating-point

• floating rib
• floating vote
• floating voter

Translations

that floats

• Ainu: アモㇺカ (amomka)
• Bulgarian: плаващ (bg) (plavašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漂浮的 (zh) (piāofúde)

• Finnish: kelluva (fi)
• Romanian: plutitor (ro), flotant (ro)
• Spanish: flotante (es)

not fixed

• Bulgarian: променлив (bg) (promenliv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浮動的 (zh), 浮动的 (zh) (fúdòngde)

• Finnish: liikkuva (fi)
• Maori: māngina (of an opinion, undecided), mōngina (of an opinion, undecided)
• Romanian: flotant (ro)

Verb

floating

1. present participle of float

Noun

floating (plural floatings)

1. (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
   • 1898, Journal of Microscopy (page 256)

     Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.

Anagrams

• antigolf