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FLOATER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
Synonyms:
floater; floating policy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
insurance; insurance policy; policy (written contract or certificate of insurance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An object that floats or is capable of floating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "floater"):
berg; iceberg (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier)
Derivation:
float (be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A swimmer who floats in the water
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
bather; natator; swimmer (a person who travels through the water by swimming)
Derivation:
float (be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
elector; voter (a citizen who has a legal right to vote)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Synonyms:
clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)
bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer (someone who leads a wandering unsettled life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "floater"):
beachcomber (a vagrant living on a beach)
sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
certificate of indebtedness; debt instrument; obligation (a written promise to repay a debt)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
Example:
floaters seem to drift through the field of vision
Synonyms:
floater; musca volitans; muscae volitantes; spots
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("floater" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
