| 单词 | floater |
| 释义 | floater (once / 25977 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n 5n 6n 7n Anything that can float on the surface of water is a floater. When you relax in a pool, floating on your back, you're a floater. If you throw pennies in the water, they'll sink, but a dollar bill will be a floater, as are dragonflies on a lake's surface and beach balls bobbing in the surf. A completely different floater is a tiny speck that seems to float across your vision, a small, nearly-translucent deposit on your eyeball of the sort that becomes fairly common as you get older. In US police slang, a floater is a body found in the water. WORD FAMILYfloater: floaters+/float: floatation, floated, floater, floating, floats, floaty, flotation, refloat/floatation: floatations/floating: floatingly, floatings/flotation: flotations/refloat: refloated, refloating, refloats USAGE EXAMPLESJonathan Mulmore finally put the Hoyas on the board with a floater from the lane with 15:45 remaining in the half. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Once they do, they mix in midrange jumpers, floaters and twisting layups. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) After Fowler was called for an offensive foul, Mortimer’s floater won it. Washington Times(Dec 16, 2016) 1 1n an object that floats or is capable of floating Hypo|Hyper berg, iceberg a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier growlera small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping object, physical object a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow 2n a swimmer who floats in the water 2Hyper bather, natator, swimmer a person who travels through the water by swimming n spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens 3floaters seem to drift through the field of vision Syn|Hyper musca volitans, muscae volitantes, spots symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease n an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed 4Hyper employee a worker who is hired to perform a job n a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper drifter, vagabond, vagrant beachcomber a vagrant living on a beach sundownera tramp who habitually arrives at sundown bum, hobo, trampa disreputable vagrant dosser, street personsomeone who sleeps in any convenient place have-not, poor person a person with few or no possessions bird of passage, roamer, rover, wanderersomeone who leads a wandering unsettled life n a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) 6Hyper certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument, obligation a written promise to repay a debt n an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location 7Syn|Hyper floating policy insurance, insurance policy, policy written contract or certificate of insurance n a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election Hyper elector, voter a citizen who has a legal right to vote |
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