floating

• afloat
• ambling
• awash
• ballooning
• batting
• bobbing
• buoyant
• buoying
• cruising
• dangling
• dawdling
• drifting
• floaty
• free-floating
• galavanting
• gallivanting
• gliding
• gypsying
• hanging
• hoboing
• hovering
• kicking around
• maundering
• meandering
• mooching
• moping
• poised
• poising
• rafting
• rambling
• ranging
• riding
• roaming
• roving
• sailing
• sauntering
• straggling
• straying
• strolling
• suspending
• swimming
• traipsing
• tramping
• unsinkable
• vagabonding
• wafting
• wandering

• aground
• dipping
• diving
• high and dry
• immersing
• lunging
• plunging
• settling
• sinking
• submerging
• submersing
• sunk

• verb
  1. Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface.
  2. To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
  3. To be capable of floating.
  4. To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
  5. To drift or wander aimlessly.
  6. To drift gently through the air.
  7. To move in a fluid manner.
  8. To circulate.
  9. (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
  10. To propose (an idea) for consideration.
  11. To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
  12. (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets as opposed to by rule.
  13. To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
  14. To extend a short-term loan to.
  15. To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
  16. To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
  17. To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
  18. To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
  19. To perform a float.
  20. To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
• noun
  1. The motion of something that floats.
  2. (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
  3. The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
• adjective
  1. That floats or float.
  2. Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
  3. (of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.

• The child enjoyed floating on an inflatable ring in the pool.
• A plastic bottle was seen floating down the river.
• The hot air balloon was floating gracefully above the city.
• Leaves were floating on the surface of the pond after the rain.
• She imagined herself floating among the clouds.

galavanting

narcotized

vagabonding

wafting

zooming

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