Meaning

4 senses
  1. The motion of something that floats.

    the act of someone who floats on the water

  2. (in the plural)Material that floats in a liquid.

  3. The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.

  4. A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.

Origin

By surface analysis, float + -ing.

By surface analysis, float + -ing.

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Forms

plural: floatings
Singularfloating
Pluralfloatings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of someone who floats on the water:natation

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfloat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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