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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
floating
the act of someone who floats on the water
• Syn:
natation
• Derivationally related forms:
float
• Hypernyms:
swimming, swim
• Hyponyms:
dead-man's float, prone float
1. borne up by or suspended in a liquid (Freq. 2)
- the ship is still floating
- floating logs
- floating seaweed
• Similar to:
afloat
2. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- a drifting double-dealer
- the floating population
- vagrant hippies of the sixties
• Syn:
aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant
• Similar to:
unsettled
• Derivationally related forms:
vagrant (for: vagrant), vagrancy (for: vagrant), vagabond (for: vagabond), aimlessness (for: aimless)
3. inclined to move or be moved about
- a floating crap game
• Similar to:
mobile
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
• Similar to:
unfixed
5. not definitely committed to a party or policy
- floating voters
• Similar to:
uncommitted
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