What's the difference between floaty and lightweight?
Floaty
Definition:
(a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnostic techniques were: direct smear, Faust floaty concentration, Willis floating and Graham's tape.
(2) There is a large gang of drawly and giggling girls, now into their 12th hour of Friday’s partying, heading home in floaty maxi dresses.
(3) I suppose my wife and I are both floaty voters.” “The people who decide the election, I do think the local stuff is important to them and that’s how they will make up their minds,” says Cox.
(4) Valerie Grove, the journalist and writer, says that she was always "the one with the glamour and eyelashes and floaty kaftans" who "obviously had many chaps in pursuit and invariably got pounced on by male interviewees".
(5) ", Omega devotees wore floaty kaftans from India, and in the exhibits hall there was a touch of Camden Market meets the student union.
(6) Watford’s victory was built on firm foundations and a defence that first faced a floaty front three, then a lone striker and finally a two after Christian Benteke joined the fray for the final quarter-hour, and allowed not one of those players a notable chance.
(7) Every user input or important action needs to have an audio-visual response to feel immersive – it’s the difference between a floaty game that feels unfinished, and a game where the player feels empowered and the world feels alive.
(8) Most look like serious surfers but we do spot a few dedicated yogis in floaty pants and flip flops.
(9) Tiene hits it, a bit floaty and side-footy, and Eduardo is able to wave it past his far post.
(10) Win Butler described his band's new album as "a mash-up of Studio54 and Haitian voodoo": think Spandex-tight disco pants and grass skirts, Burt Reynolds' moustaches and tribal face paint, floaty white dresses, skeleton jewellery and enormous Afros, and Grace Jones's Bond character if she was in Live And Let Die instead of A View To Kill.
(11) If yours is floaties and a kickboard, that’s just fine.
(12) Indoor skydiving At the Airkix centres in Milton Keynes , Manchester and (newly opened) Basingstoke , lucky kids can find themselves blown up in the air by a powerful wind machine to create a floaty feeling similar to skydiving.
(13) They've been described as wafty, wavy, floaty, gauzy, wispy, glittering, sparkly, dreamy (and – for the thesaurus buffs – diaphanous, pellucid).
Lightweight
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(2) The system called PRONG (Parallel Recording Of Neural Groups) includes a microelectrode, a lightweight reusable connector, a 24-channel FET-hybrid preamplifier, a 3-band 24-channel amplifier, a 24-channel spike monitor, high-speed digital and analog interfaces and a computer.
(3) To investigate the potential application of radionuclide computed tomography (RCT) to nuclear medicine imaging using 99mTc, a tomographic system using a lightweight scintillation camera for brain imaging was constructed, and lesion contrast with RCT and conventional scintigraphy were compared.
(4) As the houses are lightweight and timber-framed, they don’t need foundations.
(5) The lightweight group consisted of twelve 7- to 9-month-old heifers with a mean initial weight of 201.1 kg.
(6) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(7) Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) So, Drogba and his broken right arm will start on the bench, but surely come on at some point in the second half lightweight cast and all.
(8) Six years before the opening of the Forth Railway Bridge, Gustave Eiffel had completed the lightweight Garabit Viaduct.
(9) He also said it was up to politicians to dismiss the 'lightweight sloganeering of PR men', an apparent reference to the way in which cabinet ministers are asked to chime in with the government over its implementation of a long-term economic plan.
(10) A lightweight fiberglass spica has proven to be useful after repair of the deltoid origin, repair of complete rupture of the rotator cuff, and shoulder arthrodesis.
(11) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
(12) It is lightweight, less bulky, easily fabricated, and inexpensive.
(13) Osborne lacked gravitas and was seen as a political lightweight because of his "high-pitched vocal delivery" according to private Conservative polling before the election.
(14) One such device is a frame assembled from components in a lightweight compact set with dimensions of 75 x 20 x 5 cm, weighing approximately 0.5 kg.
(15) They have several others, including the Rokot for placing lightweight military satellites in orbit, and the Dnepr and Strela rockets for small commercial launches.
(16) Combined with the 8 mm tape format, the chip has created a lightweight, single unit camera, monitor, and recorder.
(17) We evaluated eight blood glucose monitors (BGMs), from six manufacturers, that are lightweight, portable, battery-powered, relatively inexpensive handheld reflectance photometers that use test strips for self-monitoring of blood glucose levels.
(18) Arsenal also have familiar opposition in Dortmund, whom they defeated 1-0 in Germany thanks to Aaron Ramsey’s goal last season but suffered a 2-1 defeat against at the Emirates, and no obvious lightweight with Galatasaray awaiting in Istanbul and Anderlecht the fourth name drawn.
(19) A lightweight and completely self-contained traction device is described.
(20) A portable lightweight stimulator for small animals is described.