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Adjective floating has 5 senses

aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant - continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
Antonym: settled (indirect, via unsettled)
floating - inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"
Antonym: immobile (indirect, via mobile)
floating - (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"
Antonym: fixed (indirect, via unfixed)
floating - not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters"
Antonym: committed (indirect, via uncommitted)
floating - borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
Antonym: aground (indirect, via sunken, afloat)
Antonyms: sunken, submerged (indirect, via afloat, aground)

Noun floating has 1 sense

floating - the act of someone who floats on the water
--₁ is a kind of swimming, swim
--₁ has particulars: dead-man's float, prone float
Derived form: verb float₂

Verb float has 9 senses

float, drift, be adrift, blow - be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
--₁ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
float, swim - be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink
--₂ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Antonyms: sink, settle, go down, go under

Derived forms: noun floating₁, noun floater₆, noun floater₇, noun float₆, noun floatation₁, noun flotation₁
Sample sentence:
These cars won't float
float - set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
--₃ is one way to transport

Derived forms: noun float₆, noun floatation₁, noun flotation₁
Sample sentence:
The girls float the wooden sticks
float - circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with; "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
--₄ is one way to test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
float - move lightly, as if suspended; "The dancer floated across the stage"
--₅ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
float - put into the water; "float a ship"
--₆ is one way to launch

Derived forms: noun float₆, noun floatation₁, noun flotation₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
float - make the surface of level or smooth; "float the plaster"
--₇ is one way to smooth, smoothen
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
float - allow (currencies) to fluctuate; "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
--₈ is one way to value
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
float - convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"
--₉ is one way to convert, change over
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something