floater

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.

   “Great God of VVaters [i.e., Neptune], vvhoſe extended Svvay / Is next to his, vvhom Heav'n and Earth obey: / Let not the Suit of Venus thee diſpleaſe, / Pity the Floaters on th' Ionian Seas.”

2. isim A corpse floating in a body of water.

   “A dock worker saw him floating against a dock pier and called the police. Condition of the body they thought a floater that had been hit by a boat and cut by the prop.”

3. isim A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
4. isim A person who frequently changes employment.
5. isim An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.

   “'The murdered girl was working for us, for the department.' / 'A floater?' / 'No. Permanent; warranty contract; the lot.'”

6. isim An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.
7. isim A person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is undesired by the group; a hanger-on.
8. isim A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
9. isim A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.
10. isim A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its own.
11. isim A player not affiliated with a team.
12. isim A river mussel (genus Anodonta).
13. isim A small suet dumpling put into soup.

    “About an hour later a ration lorry found them, and the men were woken again, this time to a good meal of bully stew and floaters – suet dumplings – followed by cold rice pudding with jam.”

14. isim A piece of faeces which floats.

    “He left a floater in the toilet.”

15. isim A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.
16. isim A ball that moves lightly through the air, as if floating; specifically (basketball), an early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.

    “The floater is a high arcing shot that is commonly used to get the ball over taller defenders in the paint.”

17. isim Ellipsis of pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”).
18. isim A waterproof sandal.

    “Replace your leather sandals with rubber slippers, sandals or floaters. They don't soak water well and why in this world would you want to spoil your expensive leather footwear in puddles?”

19. isim A mistake or misstep; a faux pas.

    “He greeted William with cordiality. "Ah, Boot, how are you? Don't think I've had the pleasure before. Know your work well of course. Sit down. Have a cigarette or"—had he made a floater?—"or do you prefer your churchwarden?"”

20. isim Clipping of floating rate bond.