Definition of Floating

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Floating

of Float

Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.

Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.

Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

The second coat of three-coat plastering.

The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.

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Floating Quotations

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James A. Baldwin

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Edward Abbey

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
Natalie Wood

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
Audre Lorde

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
Cher

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
Ava Gardner

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
Sally Ride

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
Sally Ride

Floating Translations

floating in French is flottant
floating in Swedish is flytande

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