(a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
(a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
(a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
(n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
(n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few free-floating cells could be observed in the lumen of this intermediate portion, most of which were macrophages.
(2) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(3) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(4) Type II cells cultured on floating feeder layers in medium containing 1% CS-rat serum and 10(-5) M hydrocortisone plus 0.5 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP exhibited significantly increased incorporation of [14C]acetate into total lipids (238% of control).
(5) Nonetheless some strange theories have been floated.
(6) Lymphocytes with low floating density lyse NK-sensitive target cells and leukemic B-lymphocytes, increase the lytic activity with respect to blasts of K-562 line under the effect of alpha-interferon.
(7) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(9) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(10) See kajakkompaniet.se and langholmenkajak.se for information Swimming, Liljeholmsbadet Stockholmers swim all year round at the floating bath on lake Mälaren in Hornstull on Södermalm.
(11) Two hundred six floating fusions were performed, of which 184 were available for follow-up.
(12) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
(13) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
(14) In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos.
(15) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(16) In heavily mineralized bone matrix, the periodic pattern of collagen fibrils was retained, and the electron density of mineralized matrix in freeze-substituted and unstained sections which had been floated on ethylene glycol was greater than that encountered in sections processed in aqueous reagents.
(17) SCLC variant lines could further be divided into (a) biochemical variant lines having variant biochemical profile but retaining typical SCLC morphology and growth characteristics; and (b) morphological variant (SCLC-MV) lines having variant biochemical profile, altered morphology (features of large cell undifferentiated carcinoma) and altered growth characteristics (growth as loosely attached floating aggregates, relatively short doubling times and cloning efficiencies).
(18) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(19) Comparative lipid-binding studies with dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine gave complexes for native and synthetic apoprotein which floated at the same density after ultracentrifugation in KBr gradients and had virtually the same lipid:protein ratios.
(20) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
Floe
Definition:
(n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(2) Small, sporadic floes grow larger, the great Atlantic swells flatten out, the bitter polar winds are stronger and the utter stillness begins.
(3) Left to the market, this infrastructure could melt away and leave UK language programmes stranded, like a polar bear on a lonely ice floe.
(4) The ship, Xue Long – or Snow Dragon – signalled that it might need to be rescued from ice floes off the coast of Antarctica, where 24 hours earlier its crew had helped free passengers from the Shokalskiy .
(5) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(6) "Only this time can we have Sam looking pathetic on an ice-floe while a whole school of whales attacks him?"
(7) Last March and April – typically the time of year when the ice floes are at their thickest – there was just 15,000 cubic km of ice.
(8) Some drilling had to be halted abruptly after it emerged that an ice floe 30-miles long and 12-miles wide appeared to be heading towards the drill ship.
(9) She will have to swim across ice-cold stretches of open water, walk on ice floes and climb snowy ridges.
(10) Originally a 1940s eco-concept by modernist architect Luis Barragán, the district was an exercise in plumbing clean architectural lines through the nature of lava floes that bubbled and rolled here as rock.
(11) Creating a habitat compatible with each creature's original home would have been impossible; for example, bamboo plantations for the pandas, eucalyptus groves for the koala bears, ice floes for the penguins and polar bears, tanks for the freshwater creatures at risk from flood conditions, plus the filtering and pump systems necessary to maintain hygiene standards.
(12) The average thickness of the ice floes measured by the team was 1.8m, a depth considered too thin to survive the next summer's ice melt season.
(13) On the short walk to Insurgentes it becomes clear that people have made with concrete what Barragán made of the lava floes.
(14) First it will be glassy, thin "shuga", "grease" or "pancake" ice, unable to bind the floes together.
(15) Duncan said that the idea of consolidating UK advertiser-funded broadcasters was like "penguins crowding together for safety on a rapidly melting ice floe".
(16) Antarctic ice floes extended further than ever recorded this southern winter, confounding the world’s most-trusted climate models.
(17) Meanwhile, the NSIDC said ice floes surrounding Antarctica reached a relatively high summer minimum on 20 February.
(18) At shear rates less than 1 sec-1, flow occurred by the relative movement of irregular, roughly ellipsoidal actin domains 40-140 microns long; the appearance was similar to moving ice floes.
(19) In the north, the ice-floes have melted considerably since we were here a few years ago to make what was basically the same film about polar bears and stuff: incontrovertible proof, if any more were needed, that global warming is having a devastating effect on the region's fauna.
(20) The floes are piled up and compressed in fantastic shapes and shades of grey and blue; they crack, rumble and groan as we nudge them aside or climb over them.