" floating "

[Adjective]  | "float*ing" | \ ˈflō-tiŋ \

1: buoyed on or in a fluid

2: located out of the normal position

3: continually drifting or changing position

Origin: 1600 ;

[Adjective]  | "float*ing-point" | \ ˈflō-tiŋ-ˌpȯint \

1: using or involving a notation in which a number is represented as a number with an absolute value between 1 and the base multiplied by a power of the number base indicated by an exponent (as in 4.52E2 for 452 in base 10)

Origin: 1948 ;

[Adjective]  | "free-float*ing" | \ ˈfrē-ˈflō-tiŋ \

1: floating freely

2: lacking specific attachment, direction, or purpose

3: felt as an emotion without apparent cause

Origin: 1815 ;

[Verb]  | "float" 

1: to rest on the surface of or be suspended in a fluid

2: to drift on or through or as if on or through a fluid

3: wander

Origin: before 12th century ;

[Noun]  | "floating dock" 

1: a dock that floats on the water and can be partly submerged to permit entry of a ship and raised to keep the ship high and dry —called also floating drydock

Origin: 1776 ;

[Noun]  | "floating holiday" 

1: a paid day off from work that is granted by an employer in addition to the paid holidays observed during a calendar year and that is taken on a day chosen by the employee —called also floater

Origin: 1952 ;

[Noun]  | "floating island" 

1: a dessert consisting of custard with floating masses of beaten egg whites

Origin: 1771 ;

[Noun]  | "floating rib" 

1: a rib (such as one of either of the last two pairs in humans) that has no attachment to the sternum

Origin: 1831 ;

[Idiom]  | "floating on air" 

1: feeling very happy

[Adjective]  | "floating" 

[Adjective]  | "free-floating" 

[Verb]  | "floating" 

[Verb]  | "float"