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flotating

flotating is the present participle and gerund of flotate.

Meaning of flotate

Verb

flotate (third-person singular simple present flotates, present participle flotating, simple past and past participle flotated)

  1. (nonstandard and non-native speakers' English) To float.
    • Clouds do not flotate, they stay.1996 December 30, TMolina, “Why do clouds float??”, in sci.geo.meteorology (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022

Phrases with flotating

Questions about flotating

What is flotating the present participle and gerund of?
Flotating is the present participle and gerund of flotate.

Words near flotating in the dictionary

  1. flotants
  2. flotas
  3. flotate
  4. flotated
  5. flotates
  6. flotating
  7. flotating point
  8. flotation
  9. flotation collar
  10. flotation collars
  11. flotation cost

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flotating (page history and authors); flotate (page history and authors). 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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