Floating
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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
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Edward Abbey
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
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
There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.
Method Man
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
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
Constantin Brancusi
Floating Translations
floating in French is flottant
floating in Swedish is flytande
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