floaty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.

   “[S]ome fevv buttes of beare being flotie they got, vvhich though it had lien ſix moneths vnder vvater vvas very good, […]”

2. sıfat Of a ship: having a shallow draft (the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull), and thus drawing less (that is, floating higher in) water.

   “I then told my Lord of Eſſex that mine vvas a floaty ſhip and vvell appointed for that ſervice; […]”

3. sıfat Of music: light and relaxing.

   “All the floaty music in the world could not disguise my grunts [during a massage] as I clenched my teeth and curled my toes to fight the pain.”

4. sıfat Of an object: light and flimsy or soft; specifically, of a dress: lightweight, so as to rise away from the body when the wearer is moving.

   “O here is a Bed / Shrinkproofer than that, / A floatier, boatier / Bed than that!”

5. sıfat Of a person: feeling calm, dreamy, happy, etc., as if floating in the air.

   “[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]”

6. sıfat Of speech or writing: overly complicated or elaborate; flowery, grandiloquent.

   “[William Butler] Yeats divests himself of his floatier fin-de-siècle rhetoric to discover a hard plain speech both properly twentieth century and pre-nineteenth century.”

7. isim A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid.

   “Why don't you stop slathering millions of things on your face, and lather up with my gentle Swan? It's the loveliest, pure, mild floatie—why, it'll get you clean as a baby!”

8. isim A lilo (inflatable air mattress) or similar object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on.
9. isim Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”).