Usually means: Particle floating in liquid, vision.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. floater: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. floater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. floater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. floater: Vocabulary.com
  6. Floater, floater: Wordnik
  7. Floater: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. floater: Wiktionary
  9. floater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. floater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. floater: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. floater: Dictionary.com
  13. Floater (band), Floater (disambiguation), Floater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Floater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. floater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. floater: Rhymezone
  17. Floater: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. floater: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. floater: Free Dictionary
  20. floater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. floater: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. floater: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Floater: bizterms.net
  6. Floater: Investopedia
  7. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  8. Floater: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. floater: Netlingo
  2. floater: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Floater: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Floater: Visionary
  4. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  5. floater: Medical dictionary
  6. Floater: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FLOATER, FLOATER, FLOATER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. floater, floater, floater: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. floater: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Floater: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Floater: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Floater: Dictionary of Candlemaking Terms
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  A person who floats.
noun:  A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
noun:  (law enforcement, slang) A corpse floating in a body of water.
noun:  (figurative) A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role.
noun:  A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
noun:  A person who frequently changes employment.
noun:  An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.
noun:  An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.
noun:  (slang) A person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is undesired by the group; a hanger-on.
noun:  (politics)
noun:  A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
noun:  (US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.
noun:  (US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its own.
noun:  (sports) A player not affiliated with a team.
noun:  A thing which floats.
noun:  A thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid.
noun:  A river mussel of the genus Anodonta; an anodon.
noun:  A small suet dumpling put into soup.
noun:  (vulgar) A piece of faeces which floats.
noun:  (ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.
noun:  (sports) A ball that moves lightly through the air, as if floating; specifically (basketball), an early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
noun:  (India) A waterproof sandal.
noun:  (figurative) A thing which moves from place to place, as if floating.
noun:  (slang, dated) A mistake or misstep; a faux pas.
noun:  (insurance) An insurance policy covering movable property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
noun:  (prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners which is not part of the official prison library.
noun:  (surfing) A manoeuvre in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of a wave on to the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
noun:  (cricket) A spinning delivery of the ball that travels in a high arched path.
noun:  (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
noun:  (US, law) A criminal sentence which is suspended so long as the convicted person leaves an area.
noun:  (Australia) Short for pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”). [(Australia) A meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup.]
noun:  (finance) Short for floating rate bond.

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