What is the meaning of floating?

noun

• The act of someone who floats on the water.
  • synonyms: natation

verb

• Be in motion due to some air or water current.
  • usage: "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
  • synonyms: float, drift, be adrift, blow
• Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.
  • synonyms: float, swim
• Set afloat.
  • usage: "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"
  • synonyms: float
• Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with.
  • usage: "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"
  • synonyms: float
• Move lightly, as if suspended.
  • usage: "The dancer floated across the stage"
  • synonyms: float
• Put into the water.
  • usage: "float a ship"
  • synonyms: float
• Make the surface of level or smooth.
  • usage: "float the plaster"
  • synonyms: float
• Allow (currencies) to fluctuate.
  • usage: "The government floated the ruble for a few months"
  • synonyms: float
• Convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation.
  • usage: "float data"
  • synonyms: float

adjective

• Borne up by or suspended in a liquid.
  • usage: "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
• Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another.
  • usage: "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
  • synonyms: aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant
• Inclined to move or be moved about.
  • usage: "a floating crap game"
• Of a part of the body. ( not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position)
  • usage: "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum"; "a floating kidney"
• Not definitely committed to a party or policy.
  • usage: "floating voters"