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US
/ˈfɫoʊtɝ/
]
[ UK /flˈəʊtɐ/ ]
[ UK /flˈəʊtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- a swimmer who floats in the water
- a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
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spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
floaters seem to drift through the field of vision - an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- an object that floats or is capable of floating
- an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
How To Use floater In A Sentence
- If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater.
- Some think they are masters of their fate, others believe they are merely passive floaters on the river of fate.
- Juan Martin Del Potro to mount another title bid and it is likely to prove a stretch too far for Mardy Fish, while dangerous floaters Ernests Gulbis and Milos Raonic will fall short. Evening Standard - Home
- Floater birds never paired with other nonterritorial birds; however, the opportunity for such behavior existed for at least five of our banded floaters.
- And then I gave birth to six or seven other babies, all floaters like their older brother.
- Intermediate uveitis is characterised by floaters and blurred vision and varies in severity.
- The floater or air seeder then spreads seed much faster than a drill.
- The number of nonbreeders was estimated from census data on the ratio of floaters to residents during the rainy season.
- Thiadora rebels against her floater past and goes to the military academy to join law enforcement, knowing that the law was often enforced upon renegade floaters.
- One specific type of floater is either called Muscae volitantes (from the Latin, meaning ‘flying flies’), or mouches volantes (from the French), and consist of small spots. No, You Can’t See Ghosts, Air, Or Molecules | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time
