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Floater   /flˈoʊtər/   Listen
Floater

noun
1.
Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens.  Synonyms: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, spots.
2.
A debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills).
3.
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support.  Synonyms: drifter, vagabond, vagrant.
4.
An employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed.
5.
A voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election.
6.
A swimmer who floats in the water.
7.
An object that floats or is capable of floating.
8.
An insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location.  Synonym: floating policy.





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"Floater" Quotes from Famous Books



... keenest Might find for his needs; and he then the fifteenth, Sought to the sound-wood. A swain thereon show'd him, A sea-crafty man, all the make of the land-marks. Wore then a while, on the waves was the floater, 210 The boat under the berg, and yare then the warriors Strode up on the stem; the streams were a-winding The sea 'gainst the sands. Upbore the swains then Up into the bark's barm the bright-fretted weapons, The war-array stately; then out the lads shov'd ...
— The Tale of Beowulf - Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats • Anonymous
... in her brain. She leaned closer and exclaimed in a low voice: "And how do we know he doesn't get by with murder the way he does with everything else? There's many a man picked up along the coast as a 'floater' that nobody knows ...
— El Diablo • Brayton Norton
... floater began to bob fiercely up and down. There was a strong tug on her line, and the reel began to revolve at a high rate of speed, as Mr. Fish, evidently aware that in snapping what appeared to be a nice, fat ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... is then at once shown on the divided scale in the tube, a. The lower bulb, f, contains some mercury; e is a small glass knob, which serves to maintain the balance, while b is an empty glass bulb (floater). ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various
... shelter of the bridges of the Seine were just awakening to life and a renewed sense of misery. The thin fog had begun to lift. The sharper eyes of the dog discovered the proximity of human beings before the latter could see him, and he let go of his floater long enough to utter a ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray


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