floating
UK/ˈfləʊtɪŋ//ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
floating adjective: that floats or float. Also the present participle and gerund of float.
Adjective
floating (not comparable)
- That floats or float.
- floating buoys
- 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.
- Present in the underlying phonological representation but not linked to an anchor on which it can surface.
- Historically, there was an accompanying vowel, but synchronically, a mere "floating" high tone is posited. In stage (b) this high tone causes the preceding low tone to raise to a raised-low tone via the process of low-raising. Finally, in stage (c) the floating high tone is lost.1974, Larry M. Hyman, Russell G. Schuh, “Universals of Tone Rules: Evidence from West Africa”, in Linguistic Inquiry, volume 5, number 1, →JSTOR, page 86
- Two classes of suffixes beginning with [+constricted glottis] ([+c.g.]) must be distinguished: those that invariably begin with a glottal stop and those that induce the glottalization of a preceding segment. Following Kim (2003), we attribute the difference to whether the suffix begins with a full...2009 October, Eun-Sook Kim, Douglas Pulleyblank, “Glottalization and Lenition in Nuu-chah-nulth”, in Linguistic Inquiry, volume 40, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 567-617
Noun
floating (plural floatings)
- The motion of something that floats.
- Material that floats in a liquid.
- Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.1898, Journal of Microscopy, page 256
- The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
- A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.
Also used as
floating is also the present participle and gerund of float.
floating meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
floating in Tamil
- மிதக்கிறது, மிதக்கும்
floating in Marathi
- तरंगते आहे, तरंगणारे, तरंगणारी
floating in Urdu
- تیرتا ہوا
floating in Bengali
- ভাসমান, ভাসছে
More languagesFewer languages
- floating in Telugu
- తేలుతూ ఉంది, తేలుతూ ఉంటుంది, తేలుతూ
- floating in Malayalam
- പൊങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുന്നു, ഒഴുകുന്നു
- floating in Kannada
- ತೇಲುತ್ತಿದೆ, ತೇಲುತ್ತದೆ, ತೇಲುವ
- floating in Punjabi
- ਫਲੋਟਿੰਗ
- floating in Gujarati
- તરતું
- floating in Odia
- ଭାସମାନ, ଭାସୁଛି
- floating in Nepali
- फ्लोट गर्दै, तैरिरहेको
Examples of floating in a sentence
- You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.
- "And I am much mistaken if she has not some floating fancy of her own."1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […]...
- Following Kim (2003), we attribute the difference to whether the suffix begins with a full glottal stop or a floating glottal “subsegment” (Zoll 1996).2009 October, Eun-Sook Kim, Douglas Pulleyblank, “Glottalization and Lenition in Nuu-chah-nulth”, in Linguistic Inquiry, volume 40, number...
Forms of floating
| plural | floatings |
|---|
Origin of floating
By surface analysis, float + -ing.
Words formed from floating
- flixel
- floating academy
- floating beacon
- floating bog
- floating bridge
- floating bus stop
- floating car data
- floating cellular data
- floating collar
- floating dock
- floating feeling
- floating garden
- 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
Phrases with floating
- floating at
- floating bogs
- floating ribs
- free floating
- floating docks
- floating rates
- floating tones
- floating votes
- floating around
- floating hearts
- floating lights
- floating on air
19 more phrasesFewer phrases
- floating voters
- floating beacons
- floating bridges
- floating collars
- floating grounds
- floating islands
- floating markets
- floating screeds
- floating feelings
- floating academies
- floating bus stops
- floating signifiers
- floating wood tiles
- my teeth are floating
- floating wind turbines
- floating someone's boat
- floating point operations
- floating point processors
- my back teeth are floating
Words that rhyme with floating
Questions about floating
- What does floating mean?
- Floating means that floats or float.
- What is floating in Tamil?
- Floating in Tamil is மிதக்கிறது, மிதக்கும். See Floating meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use floating in a sentence?
- You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.
- What part of speech is floating?
- Floating can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce floating?
- Floating is pronounced /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/ (US).
Words near floating in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: floating (page history and authors); floating (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); floating (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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