Floating

Definition of Floating

Float´ing
a.1.Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
2.Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
3.Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island.
- Macaulay.
Floating anchor
(Naut.) a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.
Floating battery
(Mil.) a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place.
Floating bridge
a - A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge.
b - (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; - used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.
c - A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power.
d - The landing platform of a ferry dock.
Floating cartilage
(Med.) a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter.
Floating dam
a - An anchored dam.
b - A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.
Floating derrick
a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc.
Floating dock
(Naut.) See under Dock.
Floating harbor
a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward.
Floating heart
(Bot.) a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds.
- Knight.
Floating island
a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
Floating kidney
(Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wandering.
Floating light
a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage.
Floating liver
(Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
Floating pier
a landing stage or pier which rises and falls with the tide.
Floating ribs
(Anat.) the lower or posterior ribs which are not connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs.
Floating screed
(Plastering) a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.
Floating threads
(Weaving) threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.
n.1.(Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
2.The second coat of three-coat plastering.
3.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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