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Definition: Floating |
FloatingAdjective1. Hanging or moving freely in air; "floating thistledown"; "floating banners". 2. Borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed". 3. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties". 4. Inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game". 5. (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". 6. Not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "floating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | High-impedance state of three state logic(1); denoting a circuit or device that is not connected to any source of potential(2). Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of floating, denotes that you will victoriously overcome obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming you. If the water is muddy your victories will not be gratifying. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | Free determination of rates based on supply and demand, for example exchange rates or interest rates. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The condition where a common mode voltage exists between an earth ground and the instrument or circuit of interest. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Change in colour characterized by the presence of coloured streaks on the surface of the film. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Said of large particles in a sedimentary rock that are not in contact with each other and are contained in a fine-grained matrix; e.g., quartz grainsdisseminated in limestone. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Buoyancy is the ability to float. In physics, the word buoyancy also refers to the quantity of buoyant force, regardless of whether the object floats or not. If the buoyancy exceeds the weight, then the object floats; if the weight exceeds the buoyancy, it sinks. It was the ancient Greek Archimedes of Syracuse who first discovered the law of buoyancy, sometimes called Archimedes' principle:(Fluid means either a liquid, such as water or oil, or a gas, such as air.) If the weight of an object is less than that of the fluid that the object displaces when it is fully submerged, then it floats at such a level that the weight of the object is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. If the object's weight exceeds that of the displace fluid, then it sinks.
- The buoyancy is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.
An object of a material of higher density than the fluid, e.g. a metal object in water, can still float if it has a suitable shape that keeps air below the surface level of the fluid. In that case, for the average density mentioned above, the air is included also, which may reduce this density to less than that of the fluid.
This is the principle of vessels such as boats and ships, discovered by Archimedes.
Although Archimedes' principle gives the force on a buoyant object, it is generally not recognized that this does not determine the related acceleration of the object in the usual way over Newton's first law. This is because not only has the mass of the object to be accelerated but also the mass of the displaced fluid. One can compare the situation to a scale, where the weight on one side is given by the object, and the weight on the other side by the displaced fluid element. Depending on which of the two is heavier, one side of the scale will drop and the other rise, but since both sides are rigidly connected, both masses have to be accelerated together at the same rate (albeit in opposite directions).
It is obvious that without taking the displaced fluid element into account, energy would not be conserved during the buoyant motion of an object as it would gain both potential and kinetic energy when rising in the fluid.
See also Hull (ship), Flotation, Naval architecture.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Buoyancy."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FLINT | English | Floating Interpretive Language | Computing, Language |
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Synonyms: FloatingSynonyms: aimless (adj), drifting (adj), floating(a) (adj), vagabond (adj), vagrant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
Credit | Letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; draft, lettre de creance, securities. |
Debt | Interest; premium; usance, usury; floating debt, floating capital. |
Levity | Adjective: light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating. Verb: portable. |
Money | Exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates. |
News | Adjective: many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town. |
Ship | Man of war; (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Floating |
| English words defined with "floating": floating dock, Floating island, Floating light. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "floating": Floating Academy, FLOATING HELL, floating hook, floating point underflow, floating strainer, floating underflow ♦ let floating ♦ multiple-speed floating control system ♦ single-speed floating control system. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "floating": Flotation. (references) |
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Screenplays | Watch it kid, or you'll be floating home (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) It's got dust floating in it. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You could be floating pencils by the end of the day. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I think we're floating towards New Jersey (See No Evil, Hear No Evil; writing credit: Earl Barret; Arne Sultan) | |
Lyrics | Of floating freely in your arms (Drowning; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) I can feel the magic floating in the air (Breathe; performing artist: Faith Hill) Clouds of sunlight floating by. (Matilda Mother; performing artist: Pink Floyd) Floating around on a prison ship (Optimistic; performing artist: Radiohead) And I'm floating to sound (GIMME SOME LOVIN'; performing artist: The Spencer Davis Group) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Floating Palaces (1996) The Floating Dutchman (1952) Mexico's Floating Gardens (1918) The Tale of the Floating World (2001) Floating Life (1996) | |
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 | Dead walrus - Odobenus rosmarus divergens -found floating in sea being taken on board ship for studying. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Constructing a floating buoy signal Buoy in place For use by East Coast wiredrag party. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A floating signal Photograph in 1931 Hydrographic Manual. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | They say that fish congregate around wrecks - a fisherman trying his luck next to a floating wreck. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A bergy bit floating quietly in Tracy Arm Fjord. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The seaward edge of the floating Ross Ice Shelf. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | NMFS floating dock in Juneau. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The floating cross at the mouth of the trap. Excluding the statuette of St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, which is traditionally always the same, each Rais places his own images of saints. The cross serves the functional purpose of helping the fishermen read the currents. Slack water is the most desirable time to start the fishing operation. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Trash floating in the sea. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Dixon Bay, oil emulsion floating in the densely fogged marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Floating white" by K.C. Hohensee Commentary: "The clouds form cotton candy." | "Blue floating guitar" by Matt Williams Commentary: "Inverted duotone of my mate's guitar. If you use it send me an e-mail." |
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 | A slow blues style flute melody with a floating ambient texture. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | But the question of floating depends on the present state of things, not on past history |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He splashed a floating water bug away with his hand |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The word, which I interpret the Flying or Floating Island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology |
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Health | In most cases, it will leave just a few specks of blood, or spots, floating in your vision. (references) | |
Users report sensations ranging from a pleasant feeling of floating to being separated from their bodies. (references) | ||
A balance disorder is a disturbance that causes an individual to feel unsteady, giddy, woozy, or have a sensation of movement, spinning, or floating. (references) | ||
Business | As of April 1, 2000, CBU refinancing rate became floating with monthly adjustments based on inflation dynamics, i.e. market conditions. (references) | |
The collapse of capital markets made it impossible for leasing companies to obtain financing through floating bonds, medium-term notes or creating other sources of financing. (references) | ||
By the end of the year 2000, the Shanghai government hopes to remove the blackness and odor in the upper reaches of the river, eliminate floating waste, and increase the major index of water quality to meet the national ground water quality standard of Grade 4. For the middle and lower reaches, the government hopes to meet at least Grade 5 standards. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ghana | Ghana operates a free floating exchange rate policy regime. (references) |
Qatar | Qatar's official currency, the Qatari Riyal (QR), is a floating currency. (references) | |
India | Indian firms have been floating Euro-issues in overseas markets for five years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | On July 28, local residents found the body of an unidentified man, wearing a FAd'H uniform, floating in the Inquite River near Belladere. (references) |
Indonesia | Bodies, believed to be theirs, bearing evidence of gunshot wounds, were found floating in the Kumundu River on September 12 with their hands bound and heads shaved. (references) | |
Indonesia | There were no developments in the investigation into the causes of death or the identification of the remains of 32 bodies found floating around Biak, Papua in July 1998 after navy and police forces broke up a proindependence demonstration. (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | In addition, 73.4 percent of foreign debt had floating interest rates. (references) |
TAIWAN | Taiwan has a floating exchange rate system in which banks set rates independently. (references) | |
BRAZIL | Brazil switched to a unitary, floating rate foreign exchange regime in January 1999. (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | From July 20, 2000 Floating Exchange Rate applies to all foreign exchange receipts and payments. (references) |
Hungary | Most lending by commercial bank takes place at a floating interest rate and for periods shorter than one year. (references) | |
Argentina | EXIM's guarantee is available for fixed or floating rate export loans in dollars or convertible foreign currencies. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | The lake is full of reed beds, floating islands, and is visited in the winter months by migrating birds from Europe, Asia, and other parts of Africa. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sri Lanka | According to police reports, there is a floating pool of approximately 200 foreign female sex workers in the country who may have been trafficked from the former Soviet Union, Thailand, and China. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | The floating debt of Treasury notes and temporary loans will soon be entirely discharged. |
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| "Floating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 65.08% of the time. "Floating" is used about 1,007 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 65.08% | 655 | 9,994 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.46% | 307 | 16,496 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.38% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.79% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (common) | 0.3% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,007 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "floating": floating anchor ♦ floating aquatics ♦ floating assets ♦ floating barrier ♦ floating base support ♦ Floating battery ♦ floating bridge ♦ floating capital ♦ floating cargo ♦ Floating cartilage ♦ Floating charge ♦ floating convertible ♦ floating crane ♦ floating currency ♦ Floating dam ♦ floating debenture ♦ floating debt ♦ Floating derrick ♦ floating dock ♦ floating dot ♦ floating dry dock ♦ floating earth ♦ floating exchange rate ♦ floating exchange rates ♦ floating fern ♦ floating guide bank system ♦ Floating harbor ♦ Floating heart ♦ floating hook ♦ floating ice ♦ floating interest rate ♦ Floating island ♦ Floating kidney ♦ floating kidneys ♦ Floating light ♦ floating lines ♦ Floating liver ♦ floating logs ♦ Floating manna grass ♦ floating mark ♦ floating mine ♦ floating of currencies ♦ floating of ice ♦ floating palace ♦ Floating pier ♦ floating point underflow ♦ floating policy ♦ floating population ♦ floating rate ♦ floating rate note ♦ floating reserve ♦ floating rib ♦ Floating ribs ♦ Floating screed ♦ floating stage ♦ Floating threads ♦ floating trade ♦ floating trawl ♦ floating underflow ♦ floating vote ♦ floating voter ♦ floating waste ♦ floating weeds ♦ IEEE Floating Point Standard ♦ jump from one sheet of floating ice to another ♦ let floating ♦ managed floating ♦ million floating point operations per second. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "floating": floating-charge, floating-moss, floating-on-a-cloud, floating-point, floating-point accelerator, floating-point notation, floating-point number, floating-point operation, floating-point representation system, Floating-Point SPECbaserate, Floating-Point SPECbaseratio, Floating-Point SPECrate, Floating-Point SPECratio, Floating-Point Unit, floating-rate, floating-then-zero, floating-trickle. | |
Ending with "floating": fixed-then-floating, free-floating, freely-floating, integer-floating, non-floating, semi-floating, swimming-floating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
floating dock | 804 | floating candle centerpiece | 27 |
floating candle | 609 | floating chair | 27 |
curtain floating | 255 | floating house | 26 |
floating cover | 201 | floating deck | 26 |
floating | 118 | floating dock plan | 26 |
floating cooler | 115 | floating pool chair | 24 |
floating floor | 78 | floating wood floor | 24 |
floating fountain | 74 | stool floating | 24 |
floating home | 72 | floating hardwood floor | 24 |
floating shelf | 61 | floating point | 23 |
floating boat dock | 39 | floating island | 22 |
floating candle holder | 37 | floating rib | 22 |
floating candle bowls | 37 | floating java script toolbar | 21 |
floating solar light | 35 | floating flower | 21 |
build a floating dock | 35 | floating golf ball | 21 |
floating bridge | 32 | floating key chain | 20 |
floating trampoline | 31 | floating solar fountain | 19 |
floating swim wear | 30 | floating menu | 19 |
floating light | 30 | floating rose candle | 19 |
floating pool candle | 28 | floating dock system | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "floating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qarkullues (circular, encyclic), pluskues (awash, buoyant, float, floatable, supernatant), pa dridhje, lundrues (seagoing), i zhvendosur. (various references) | |
Arabic | مترجل (pedestrian), زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), عائم (natant), طليق (at large, free, freed, freed man, loose, off hand), طاف (afloat, buoyant, circuit, cruise, promenade, range, roam, roll, rove, scour, swag, tour, travel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), който се мести, неприкачен, подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, light, limber, lissome, lithe, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, ready, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile), плаващ (afloat, buoyant, floatable, movable, natatorial, natatory), плаване (floatation, natation, navigation, sail, sailing, voyage). (various references) | |
Chinese | 漂浮 (Floated), 渢 (buoyant). (various references) | |
Czech | pohyblivý (mobile, movable, moveable, moving, rolling), plovoucí, obìžný (circulating, encyclic, orbit), nestálý (changeable, erratic, fickle, impermanent, inconstant, passing, unceasing, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, volatile). (various references) | |
Danish | flydende (fluid, liquid), floating, flådning, underpuds, svømmende, svævende. (various references) | |
Dutch | zwevend (float), vlotten (advance, float, progress), schiften (divide, separate), raaplaag, ongelijkmatig opdrijven, drijvend (afloat). (various references) | |
Finnish | lauttaus, kelluva (float). (various references) | |
French | flottant (flowing). (various references) | |
German | schwimmend (afloat, buoyant, buoyantly, swimming), schwebend (hovering, pending, suspended, undecided, undetermined, unresolved), gleitend (gliding, languorous, sashaying, sliding, smoothing), gleiten (be chucked, float, glide, plane, range, sail, sashay, skid, slide, slip, to float, to glide, to sashay), fließend (flowing, fluent, fluently, fluid, fluxionary, moving, running). (various references) | |
Greek | επίπλευση (flotation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | השטה, צף (afloat, buoy, float, natant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sodródó, úszó (awash, bob, bobber, cork, fin, float, floaty, natatorial, paddle, pontoon, quill, sludge, swimmer, swimming). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengapungan, pengambangan, mengambang. (various references) | |
Italian | fluttuante (fluctuating), fluitazione, flottazione non uniforme, flottazione eterogenea, trasporto di legname per via fluviale, mobile (cabinet, changeable, furniture, maneuverable, mobile, movable, moving, personal, portable, shifting, sliding, unstable), malta grossolana, galleggiante (barge, buoyant, float, floater), affioramento (bleed through, bleeding, blushing, ontcropping, outcrop, outcropping), a galla (afloat, awash). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浮遊 (suspension, wandering). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フローティング , ふひょう (a tag or label, appended chart or table or graph, attached list, bad reputation, buoy, disgrace, ice floe, pawn, score, staff, unpopularity), ふどう (difference, disorder, diversity, firmness, fixed, idle, immobility, irregularity, motionless, steadfastness, woman's duties), ふわっと (drifting, weightlessness), ふゆう (May fly, opulence, rich and famous, riches, something ephemeral, suspension, wafting, wandering, wealth), ふよう (cotton rose, lotus, maintenance, non-business, of no use, support, unnecessary, waste). (various references) | |
Korean | 이초. (various references) | |
Manx | so-ghleashagh (accommodating of morals, ductile, temperamental), snaue (bathing, course, crawl, crawling, creep, creep as child, creeping, float, flotation, glide, gliding, in suspension, scuttle; track of snail; swimming, scuttle; track; swimming, sidle, slither, slithering, swim), skeaylt (disbanded, disconnected, dispelled, loose, loose-fitting, loose-jointed, scattered, slackened, spreading, sprinkled, sprung, unfurled), shiaulley (a boat trip, boat, boating, clearance, crew, cruise, cruising, float off, flow, flow on surface, navigate, navigation, sail, sailing, ship, shipment, voyage, voyaging), seyr (autonomous; carpenter, aweigh, complimentary, disengaged, fluid, free, gratis, gratuitous, immune, independent, inexpensive, unforced, wright), er snaue (awash, swimming). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flutuante (afloat, awash, buoyant, flowing, flying, supernatant, unfunded, wavy), flutuação de cor não uniforme, flutuação (float, floatage, floatation, waft, wavering), financiamento (floatation), vacilante (faltering, fitful, flickering, limp, rickety, shaky, shilly-shally, tipsy, trembling, vacillating, wavering, wobbly, wonky), transporte da madeira por água, regulável (adjustable, regulable), que bóia, oscilante (crank, flickering, libratory, oscillatory, pendulous, swinging, unstable, vacillating, waggly, wavering, wobbly), livre (bohemian, clear, disengaged, exempt, fetterless, free, immune, independent, leisured, loose, masterless, off, quit, spare, spontaneous, unappropriated, unattached, unconstrained, unencumbered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unoccupied, unrestrained, untied, untrammelled), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), imóvel (attached, firm, fixture, motionless, moveless, quiescent, quiet, realty, set, static, stationary, still, unmoved), desprendido (devil-may-care, free, nonchalant), corrente (backwash, cable, catena, chain, circulation, course, criss-cross, fetter, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, fresh, general, guy, prevailing, preventer, rife, river, ruling, running, runny, scour, shackle, stream, tether, tide, tie, undercurrent), circulante (current). (various references) | |
Romanian | flotant, variabil (changeable, choppy, fluctuating, mutable, uncertain, uneven, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variably, variant, varying), plutitor (buoyant, float, floatable, swimmer), plutire (drift, floatage, floatation), plutãrit, nestabil (crank, rocky, unequal, uneven, unreliable), lansare (delivery, floatation, launching, release, throw), inundare (inundation), inundabil, de transporta, de navigaţie (navigational), care poate fi inundat. (various references) | |
Russian | плавучий (buoyant, floatable, floaty), плавающий (amphibious, float, floating piston), плавать плавающий. (various references) | |
Scottish | fleodradh, snàmh (float, swim, swimming, the art of swimming). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokretan (ambulatory, impellent, locomotive, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, mobile, motile, movable, moveable, moving, personal, shifting), plivajući (buoyant), koji plovi. (various references) | |
Spanish | flotación (buoyancy, floatation, flotation). (various references) | |
Swedish | flytande (afloat, buoyant, flowing, fluent, fluently, fluid, glib, liquid, molten, pouring, smooth). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่ลอยอยู่บนน้ำ, ซึ่งไม่อยู่กับที่. (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzer, yüzen (buoyant, natant), sabit olmayan (flexible, inconstant, unsteady), gezici (ambulant, ambulatory, itinerant, mobile, roving, touring, traveling, travelling), değişen (changing, choppy, fluxional, unfunded), dalgalanan (fluctuating, flying, surging, surgy, undulant, undulating), döner (revolving, rolling, rotary, rotative, rotatory, swivel, turnable, turning, winding). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рухомий (gradient, mobile, movable, moveable, transportable), мінливий (capricious, changeable, changeful, chatoyant, chequered, choppy, inconsistent, interchangeable, mutable, non-permanent, skittish, stayless, uncertain, vagrant, variable, varied, wanton, wavy, wayward), плавучий (buoyant, floatable), плавання (floatation, flotation, natation, swim, swimming). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự khởi công (starting). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "floating": refloating. (additional references) | |
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"Floating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fellating, Flatin, flating, fleating, floatant, Floation, flocting, flooting, flopting, florting, floting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "floating" (pronounced flō"ting) |
| 5 | -l ō" t i ng | bloating, gloating. |
| 4 | -ō" t i ng | boating, coating, devoting, doting, nonvoting, noting, promoting, quoting, toting, voting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-l-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: antilog, fatling, foaling, loafing, lofting. | |
-2 letters: fating, flagon, fontal, galiot, gitano, latigo, latino, talion, tiglon, toling. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, aloft, aloin, along, fagin, fagot, faint, final, fling, flint, float, flong, flota, folia, ganof, giant, glint, gloat, gonia, gonif, ingot, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, notal, talon, tango, tigon, tolan, tonal, tonga. | |
-4 letters: agin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: foliating. | |
+2 letters: batfowling, conflating, outfabling, refloating. | |
+3 letters: antifouling, defoliating, exfoliating, flatfooting, formulating, fulguration, outflanking, stagflation, sulfonating. | |
+4 letters: allografting, deflagration, flagellation, flocculating, flowcharting, fluoridating, fluorinating, footfaulting, forestalling, fulgurations, stagflations, uglification, waterfowling. | |
+5 letters: confabulating, conflagration, deflagrations, flagellations, flowchartings, glorification, lignification, overinflating, proliferating, reformulating, suffocatingly, uglifications, waterflooding, waterfowlings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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