floating

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  1. adjective Buoyed on or suspended in or as if in a fluid.
  2. adjective Not secured in place; unattached.
  3. adjective Inclined to move or be moved about: a floating meeting; floating crap games.

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  • So it's a floating island with water, fresh water, that can fly from place to place. —  Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture
  • I can close my eyes and see one word floating there in the darkness behind my lids -- floating there like black fire, deadly as an arrow fired into the brain, and it's the only word that matters: EXCALIBUR ILLUSTRATION By Stephen King Stephen King is a man who knows the power of the written word. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • And as for the floating islands of foam, hitting them would probably be like ploughing into slightly hardened soap bubbles. —  A Meeting with Medusa
  • In a misty snow, out of absolutely nowhere, the Khlebnikov has come upon something that appears more like a floating island than anything else: a huge, mythical-looking object some 4,000 feet in length, with smooth, straight sides that rise up another 100 feet above the water's surface. —  Omni: January 1995
  • The upstream leg of the trip was the most dangerous because the majority of the mines were free-floating, and moving counter to the current increased the danger of hitting one. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
 

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/ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
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