1. Borne up by or suspended in a liquid
   "floating seaweed"; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"
    
2. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
   "the floating population";
   - drifting, vagabond, vagrant
    
3. Inclined to move or be moved about
   "a floating crap game"
    
4. (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"
    
5. Not definitely committed to a party or policy
   "floating voters"
    
6. (finance) having a variable or adjustable rate
   "A floating interest rate"

1. The act of someone who floats on the water
   "His peaceful floating in the pool was interrupted by a splash"

1. Be in motion due to some air or water current
   "the boat floated on the lake";
   - drift, be adrift, blow
    
2. Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
   "The cork floated on the water";
   - swim
    
3. Move lightly, as if suspended
   "The dancer floated across the stage"
    
4. Set afloat
   "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
    
5. Put into the water
   "float a ship"
    
6. Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
   "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
    
7. Allow (currencies) to fluctuate
   "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
    
8. Make the surface level or smooth
   "float the plaster"
    
9. Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
   "float data"

Derived forms: floatings

See also: afloat, free-floating [informal], mobile, uncommitted, unfixed, unsettled

Type of: change over, convert, essay, examine, go, launch, locomote, move, prove, smooth, smoothen, swim, swimming, test, transport, travel, trial, try, try out, value

Antonym: go under

Encyclopedia: Floating, Brilliant, Gone