How do you spell Floating
Available Definitions:
1) a. - Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
2) a. - Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
3) a. - Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
4) n. - Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
5) n. - The second coat of three-coat plastering.
6) v. i. - A float board. See Float board (below).
7) v. i. - A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
8) v. i. - The act of flowing; flux; flow.
9) v. i. - A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
10) v. i. - The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
11) v. i. - A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
12) v. i. - A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
13) v. i. - A coal cart.
14) v. i. - The sea; a wave. See Flote , n.
15) n. - To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
16) n. - To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
17) v. t. - To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
18) v. t. - To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
19) v. t. - To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
20) v. t. - To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
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