Definition of floater in English:

floater

noun ˈfləʊtəˈfloʊdər

1A person or thing that floats.
漂浮的人（或物），尤指
Example sentencesExamples
- The roads are magnetic as well and the floater rides on the opposing magnetic fields.
- And then I gave birth to six or seven other babies, all floaters like their older brother.
- He produced a set of keys attached to a large red floater then placed a cordless phone on the counter.
- The most intensive water use is with hair conditioner being a principal component of the floaters.
- In contrast, this is brain-dead pap that will be forgotten in a week, another floater in the sewer of empty rhetoric.
- Now if you're still not convinced you care whether zooplankton drop sinkers or floaters you should know there are more than 1500 million tonnes of protozoa, a type of zooplankton, in the Southern Ocean alone.
- Before the floaters realize it, a sudden storm blows in and it's so dark for so long that when the storm dissipates, it really is night time.
- Oh and before I forget, I hate people that leave floaters in the toilet and bad stenches.
- In fact, each painting on display at the ‘Floating Images’ is full of these floaters which serve as links in a shape-colour continuum.
- ‘Plug it up with rubber floaters,’ Rys commanded.
- The floater was a morphing shade that caught the prevailing winds within her eye and billowed like an escaped handkerchief.
- Some think they are masters of their fate, others believe they are merely passive floaters on the river of fate.
- After window shopping for millions of dirhams I came back home with a pair of cheap floaters and a two litre bottle of orange juice.
- Frank stopped laughing abruptly and said, ‘so, when your people find your floater, they will be right next to the door?’
- This allows the operator to use a long, paddle-shaped device to agitate the contents, mixing the floaters and grease with the solids in the bottom.
- This particular breed are floaters, not fliers.
- There were blue and brown butterflies wider than my hands side-by-side, black butterflies with dazzling yellow stripes, magnificent azure and green-winged floaters gliding on the humid air.
- He was a quintessential fearless big-wave rider and the first native to do aerials and floaters and 360s.
- I'm more of a flinger than a floater, so my teacher catches my hips, then he stands there and counts slowly to twelve while subtly, telepathically adjusting my posture and watching for signs of collapse.
1. 1.1 A loose particle within the eyeball which is apparent in one's field of vision.
  （飞蚊症）漂浮斑纹
  Example sentencesExamples
  They're trapped in the liquid so when your eyes move the floaters scoot into view, and then settle out of sight.
  It could have been far worse, the authors say, and they urge coaches to refer within 24 hours any player who reports ocular floaters soon after a game.
  If the retina is normally attached, the insect-like movements are harmless floaters in the vitreous humor of the eye.
  She found a doctor across the border who claimed to have perfected a much simpler, essentially risk-free procedure called ‘laser obliteration of floaters,’ and her heart beat faster.
  This can be normal, but sometimes it is a sign of a more serious problem such as retinal detachment, especially if you see light flashes along with floaters.
  I have had recent problems with what my physician called floaters.
  A sudden increase in the number of floaters - dark spots darting through your vision - could suggest vision-threatening changes to your retina.
  By the time I made it back to camp, I was seeing floaters and flashes.
  Symptoms include floaters and blurred vision caused by swelling of the optic disc.
  A floater took up residency in Helen's eye- this was her fate, at fifty-five.
  A dilated fundus examination of the retina is advised when these floaters increase in number suddenly along with flashes to rule out any retinal tears in the eye.
  She wrote about the inflamed irises in her eyes and the vision problems that have resulted, including floaters.
  She wished she could turn back the clock, relive the day before the floater's advent just one last day unclouded by this random smear, the world still crystalline in both eyes.
  Intermediate uveitis is characterised by floaters and blurred vision and varies in severity.
  You may experience light sensitivity, redness, pain, floaters and blurry vision.
  Although they can be annoying, eye floaters are usually not a problem and don't require treatment.
  Even her eye doctor, if he was to be believed, had floaters; Helen regarded him dubiously; she knew him for a bit of a joker.
  It's distracting (and made even worse by the fact that I've had a big gray floater in my right eye since 1998).
  Patients present with floaters and diminished visual acuity.
  But I've become used to the floaters, as well as that low-volume, high-pitched hissing sound that I began to notice a year ago in the background of music from my stereo.
2A floating voter.
FLOATING VOTER 的简称
Example sentencesExamples
- Thiadora rebels against her floater past and goes to the military academy to join law enforcement, knowing that the law was often enforced upon renegade floaters.
- Our analysis reveals that some would-be floaters might respond positively to having advisers based locally.
- I'm still inclined to vote Labour to stop the ‘Liberal Democrats’ getting in in my constituency but I'm moving closer to floater voter.
- Mr Luntz went to marginal Milton Keynes to ask floaters for their thoughts, and the issue on which they gave the PM his best score was decisiveness in the face of a security crisis.
- Asked to make the same comparison for the Tories, the floaters nominated a gin-and-tonic and cricket.
- New Labour offered me the chance to vote for a socially inclusive agenda without automatically making myself poorer - a powerful come-on for many millions of floaters all over the nation.
- ‘The joint committee is split almost evenly among three factions: a third reformers, a third dinosaurs and a third floaters,’ he added.
1. 2.1North American informal A person who frequently changes occupation or residence.
  〈非正式，主北美〉经常变换工作者；居无定所者
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, we have no reliable estimates of floater population size.
  The adult population consisted of two status categories, residents and floaters.
  The number of nonbreeders was estimated from census data on the ratio of floaters to residents during the rainy season.
  In three cases a vacancy was not filled by an intruding floater while nearby intruding floaters were present in the area.
  The sparks came from locomotives, settlers, hobo floaters, and lightning.
  I heard a social worker call kids like that floaters in the office the day they took me there.
2. 2.2North American A worker who is required to do a variety of tasks as the need for each arises.
  〈北美〉（根据需要改换任务的）杂工，临时工
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater.
  The soil test labs have been busy and there are a few floaters applying fertilizer in the field but not much other activity.
  A floater was present in each classroom during the administration of the questionnaires to answer individual questions.
  This occurred most often when the physician was on call at night, or when the nurse was a floater.
3British dated, informal A mistake; a gaffe.
〈英，非正式，旧〉错误；过失
Synonyms
mistake, error, gaffe, blunder, fault, slip, slip of the tongue, solecism, indiscretion, oversight, inaccuracy, botch
4US An insurance policy covering loss of articles without specifying a location.
〈美〉流动财产保险单
Example sentencesExamples
- If you own luxury items, you'll probably need additional insurance - known as a rider or floater - to cover them.

Rhymes

bloater, boater, Botha, Dakota, doter, emoter, gloater, iota, Kota, Minnesota, motor, promoter, quota, rota, rotor, scoter, voter

Definition of floater in US English:

floater

nounˈflōdərˈfloʊdər

1A person or thing that floats.
漂浮的人（或物），尤指
Example sentencesExamples
- Oh and before I forget, I hate people that leave floaters in the toilet and bad stenches.
- And then I gave birth to six or seven other babies, all floaters like their older brother.
- After window shopping for millions of dirhams I came back home with a pair of cheap floaters and a two litre bottle of orange juice.
- This allows the operator to use a long, paddle-shaped device to agitate the contents, mixing the floaters and grease with the solids in the bottom.
- The floater was a morphing shade that caught the prevailing winds within her eye and billowed like an escaped handkerchief.
- Before the floaters realize it, a sudden storm blows in and it's so dark for so long that when the storm dissipates, it really is night time.
- This particular breed are floaters, not fliers.
- In contrast, this is brain-dead pap that will be forgotten in a week, another floater in the sewer of empty rhetoric.
- Some think they are masters of their fate, others believe they are merely passive floaters on the river of fate.
- There were blue and brown butterflies wider than my hands side-by-side, black butterflies with dazzling yellow stripes, magnificent azure and green-winged floaters gliding on the humid air.
- Now if you're still not convinced you care whether zooplankton drop sinkers or floaters you should know there are more than 1500 million tonnes of protozoa, a type of zooplankton, in the Southern Ocean alone.
- The most intensive water use is with hair conditioner being a principal component of the floaters.
- He was a quintessential fearless big-wave rider and the first native to do aerials and floaters and 360s.
- Frank stopped laughing abruptly and said, ‘so, when your people find your floater, they will be right next to the door?’
- He produced a set of keys attached to a large red floater then placed a cordless phone on the counter.
- ‘Plug it up with rubber floaters,’ Rys commanded.
- I'm more of a flinger than a floater, so my teacher catches my hips, then he stands there and counts slowly to twelve while subtly, telepathically adjusting my posture and watching for signs of collapse.
- In fact, each painting on display at the ‘Floating Images’ is full of these floaters which serve as links in a shape-colour continuum.
- The roads are magnetic as well and the floater rides on the opposing magnetic fields.
1. 1.1 A loose particle within the eyeball which is apparent in one's field of vision.
  （飞蚊症）漂浮斑纹
  Example sentencesExamples
  This can be normal, but sometimes it is a sign of a more serious problem such as retinal detachment, especially if you see light flashes along with floaters.
  Even her eye doctor, if he was to be believed, had floaters; Helen regarded him dubiously; she knew him for a bit of a joker.
  She wrote about the inflamed irises in her eyes and the vision problems that have resulted, including floaters.
  A sudden increase in the number of floaters - dark spots darting through your vision - could suggest vision-threatening changes to your retina.
  They're trapped in the liquid so when your eyes move the floaters scoot into view, and then settle out of sight.
  Patients present with floaters and diminished visual acuity.
  A floater took up residency in Helen's eye- this was her fate, at fifty-five.
  It's distracting (and made even worse by the fact that I've had a big gray floater in my right eye since 1998).
  If the retina is normally attached, the insect-like movements are harmless floaters in the vitreous humor of the eye.
  A dilated fundus examination of the retina is advised when these floaters increase in number suddenly along with flashes to rule out any retinal tears in the eye.
  It could have been far worse, the authors say, and they urge coaches to refer within 24 hours any player who reports ocular floaters soon after a game.
  Although they can be annoying, eye floaters are usually not a problem and don't require treatment.
  She found a doctor across the border who claimed to have perfected a much simpler, essentially risk-free procedure called ‘laser obliteration of floaters,’ and her heart beat faster.
  By the time I made it back to camp, I was seeing floaters and flashes.
  I have had recent problems with what my physician called floaters.
  She wished she could turn back the clock, relive the day before the floater's advent just one last day unclouded by this random smear, the world still crystalline in both eyes.
  But I've become used to the floaters, as well as that low-volume, high-pitched hissing sound that I began to notice a year ago in the background of music from my stereo.
  You may experience light sensitivity, redness, pain, floaters and blurry vision.
  Intermediate uveitis is characterised by floaters and blurred vision and varies in severity.
  Symptoms include floaters and blurred vision caused by swelling of the optic disc.
2North American informal A person who frequently changes occupation or residence.
〈非正式，主北美〉经常变换工作者；居无定所者
Example sentencesExamples
- In three cases a vacancy was not filled by an intruding floater while nearby intruding floaters were present in the area.
- The sparks came from locomotives, settlers, hobo floaters, and lightning.
- The number of nonbreeders was estimated from census data on the ratio of floaters to residents during the rainy season.
- The adult population consisted of two status categories, residents and floaters.
- However, we have no reliable estimates of floater population size.
- I heard a social worker call kids like that floaters in the office the day they took me there.
3North American A worker who is required to do a variety of tasks as the need for each arises.
〈北美〉（根据需要改换任务的）杂工，临时工
Example sentencesExamples
- The soil test labs have been busy and there are a few floaters applying fertilizer in the field but not much other activity.
- If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater.
- This occurred most often when the physician was on call at night, or when the nurse was a floater.
- A floater was present in each classroom during the administration of the questionnaires to answer individual questions.
4US An insurance policy covering loss of articles without specifying a location.
〈美〉流动财产保险单
Example sentencesExamples
- If you own luxury items, you'll probably need additional insurance - known as a rider or floater - to cover them.

词汇	floater
释义	Definition of floater in English: floater noun ˈfləʊtəˈfloʊdər 1A person or thing that floats. 漂浮的人（或物），尤指 Example sentencesExamples The roads are magnetic as well and the floater rides on the opposing magnetic fields. And then I gave birth to six or seven other babies, all floaters like their older brother. He produced a set of keys attached to a large red floater then placed a cordless phone on the counter. The most intensive water use is with hair conditioner being a principal component of the floaters. In contrast, this is brain-dead pap that will be forgotten in a week, another floater in the sewer of empty rhetoric. Now if you're still not convinced you care whether zooplankton drop sinkers or floaters you should know there are more than 1500 million tonnes of protozoa, a type of zooplankton, in the Southern Ocean alone. Before the floaters realize it, a sudden storm blows in and it's so dark for so long that when the storm dissipates, it really is night time. Oh and before I forget, I hate people that leave floaters in the toilet and bad stenches. In fact, each painting on display at the ‘Floating Images’ is full of these floaters which serve as links in a shape-colour continuum. ‘Plug it up with rubber floaters,’ Rys commanded. The floater was a morphing shade that caught the prevailing winds within her eye and billowed like an escaped handkerchief. Some think they are masters of their fate, others believe they are merely passive floaters on the river of fate. After window shopping for millions of dirhams I came back home with a pair of cheap floaters and a two litre bottle of orange juice. Frank stopped laughing abruptly and said, ‘so, when your people find your floater, they will be right next to the door?’ This allows the operator to use a long, paddle-shaped device to agitate the contents, mixing the floaters and grease with the solids in the bottom. This particular breed are floaters, not fliers. There were blue and brown butterflies wider than my hands side-by-side, black butterflies with dazzling yellow stripes, magnificent azure and green-winged floaters gliding on the humid air. He was a quintessential fearless big-wave rider and the first native to do aerials and floaters and 360s. I'm more of a flinger than a floater, so my teacher catches my hips, then he stands there and counts slowly to twelve while subtly, telepathically adjusting my posture and watching for signs of collapse. 1.1 A loose particle within the eyeball which is apparent in one's field of vision. （飞蚊症）漂浮斑纹 Example sentencesExamples They're trapped in the liquid so when your eyes move the floaters scoot into view, and then settle out of sight. It could have been far worse, the authors say, and they urge coaches to refer within 24 hours any player who reports ocular floaters soon after a game. If the retina is normally attached, the insect-like movements are harmless floaters in the vitreous humor of the eye. She found a doctor across the border who claimed to have perfected a much simpler, essentially risk-free procedure called ‘laser obliteration of floaters,’ and her heart beat faster. This can be normal, but sometimes it is a sign of a more serious problem such as retinal detachment, especially if you see light flashes along with floaters. I have had recent problems with what my physician called floaters. A sudden increase in the number of floaters - dark spots darting through your vision - could suggest vision-threatening changes to your retina. By the time I made it back to camp, I was seeing floaters and flashes. Symptoms include floaters and blurred vision caused by swelling of the optic disc. A floater took up residency in Helen's eye- this was her fate, at fifty-five. A dilated fundus examination of the retina is advised when these floaters increase in number suddenly along with flashes to rule out any retinal tears in the eye. She wrote about the inflamed irises in her eyes and the vision problems that have resulted, including floaters. She wished she could turn back the clock, relive the day before the floater's advent just one last day unclouded by this random smear, the world still crystalline in both eyes. Intermediate uveitis is characterised by floaters and blurred vision and varies in severity. You may experience light sensitivity, redness, pain, floaters and blurry vision. Although they can be annoying, eye floaters are usually not a problem and don't require treatment. Even her eye doctor, if he was to be believed, had floaters; Helen regarded him dubiously; she knew him for a bit of a joker. It's distracting (and made even worse by the fact that I've had a big gray floater in my right eye since 1998). Patients present with floaters and diminished visual acuity. But I've become used to the floaters, as well as that low-volume, high-pitched hissing sound that I began to notice a year ago in the background of music from my stereo. 2A floating voter. FLOATING VOTER 的简称 Example sentencesExamples Thiadora rebels against her floater past and goes to the military academy to join law enforcement, knowing that the law was often enforced upon renegade floaters. Our analysis reveals that some would-be floaters might respond positively to having advisers based locally. I'm still inclined to vote Labour to stop the ‘Liberal Democrats’ getting in in my constituency but I'm moving closer to floater voter. Mr Luntz went to marginal Milton Keynes to ask floaters for their thoughts, and the issue on which they gave the PM his best score was decisiveness in the face of a security crisis. Asked to make the same comparison for the Tories, the floaters nominated a gin-and-tonic and cricket. New Labour offered me the chance to vote for a socially inclusive agenda without automatically making myself poorer - a powerful come-on for many millions of floaters all over the nation. ‘The joint committee is split almost evenly among three factions: a third reformers, a third dinosaurs and a third floaters,’ he added. 2.1North American informal A person who frequently changes occupation or residence. 〈非正式，主北美〉经常变换工作者；居无定所者 Example sentencesExamples However, we have no reliable estimates of floater population size. The adult population consisted of two status categories, residents and floaters. The number of nonbreeders was estimated from census data on the ratio of floaters to residents during the rainy season. In three cases a vacancy was not filled by an intruding floater while nearby intruding floaters were present in the area. The sparks came from locomotives, settlers, hobo floaters, and lightning. I heard a social worker call kids like that floaters in the office the day they took me there. 2.2North American A worker who is required to do a variety of tasks as the need for each arises. 〈北美〉（根据需要改换任务的）杂工，临时工 Example sentencesExamples If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater. The soil test labs have been busy and there are a few floaters applying fertilizer in the field but not much other activity. A floater was present in each classroom during the administration of the questionnaires to answer individual questions. This occurred most often when the physician was on call at night, or when the nurse was a floater. 3British dated, informal A mistake; a gaffe. 〈英，非正式，旧〉错误；过失 Synonyms mistake, error, gaffe, blunder, fault, slip, slip of the tongue, solecism, indiscretion, oversight, inaccuracy, botch 4US An insurance policy covering loss of articles without specifying a location. 〈美〉流动财产保险单 Example sentencesExamples If you own luxury items, you'll probably need additional insurance - known as a rider or floater - to cover them. Rhymes bloater, boater, Botha, Dakota, doter, emoter, gloater, iota, Kota, Minnesota, motor, promoter, quota, rota, rotor, scoter, voter Definition of floater in US English: floater nounˈflōdərˈfloʊdər 1A person or thing that floats. 漂浮的人（或物），尤指 Example sentencesExamples Oh and before I forget, I hate people that leave floaters in the toilet and bad stenches. And then I gave birth to six or seven other babies, all floaters like their older brother. After window shopping for millions of dirhams I came back home with a pair of cheap floaters and a two litre bottle of orange juice. This allows the operator to use a long, paddle-shaped device to agitate the contents, mixing the floaters and grease with the solids in the bottom. The floater was a morphing shade that caught the prevailing winds within her eye and billowed like an escaped handkerchief. Before the floaters realize it, a sudden storm blows in and it's so dark for so long that when the storm dissipates, it really is night time. This particular breed are floaters, not fliers. In contrast, this is brain-dead pap that will be forgotten in a week, another floater in the sewer of empty rhetoric. Some think they are masters of their fate, others believe they are merely passive floaters on the river of fate. There were blue and brown butterflies wider than my hands side-by-side, black butterflies with dazzling yellow stripes, magnificent azure and green-winged floaters gliding on the humid air. Now if you're still not convinced you care whether zooplankton drop sinkers or floaters you should know there are more than 1500 million tonnes of protozoa, a type of zooplankton, in the Southern Ocean alone. The most intensive water use is with hair conditioner being a principal component of the floaters. He was a quintessential fearless big-wave rider and the first native to do aerials and floaters and 360s. Frank stopped laughing abruptly and said, ‘so, when your people find your floater, they will be right next to the door?’ He produced a set of keys attached to a large red floater then placed a cordless phone on the counter. ‘Plug it up with rubber floaters,’ Rys commanded. I'm more of a flinger than a floater, so my teacher catches my hips, then he stands there and counts slowly to twelve while subtly, telepathically adjusting my posture and watching for signs of collapse. In fact, each painting on display at the ‘Floating Images’ is full of these floaters which serve as links in a shape-colour continuum. The roads are magnetic as well and the floater rides on the opposing magnetic fields. 1.1 A loose particle within the eyeball which is apparent in one's field of vision. （飞蚊症）漂浮斑纹 Example sentencesExamples This can be normal, but sometimes it is a sign of a more serious problem such as retinal detachment, especially if you see light flashes along with floaters. Even her eye doctor, if he was to be believed, had floaters; Helen regarded him dubiously; she knew him for a bit of a joker. She wrote about the inflamed irises in her eyes and the vision problems that have resulted, including floaters. A sudden increase in the number of floaters - dark spots darting through your vision - could suggest vision-threatening changes to your retina. They're trapped in the liquid so when your eyes move the floaters scoot into view, and then settle out of sight. Patients present with floaters and diminished visual acuity. A floater took up residency in Helen's eye- this was her fate, at fifty-five. It's distracting (and made even worse by the fact that I've had a big gray floater in my right eye since 1998). If the retina is normally attached, the insect-like movements are harmless floaters in the vitreous humor of the eye. A dilated fundus examination of the retina is advised when these floaters increase in number suddenly along with flashes to rule out any retinal tears in the eye. It could have been far worse, the authors say, and they urge coaches to refer within 24 hours any player who reports ocular floaters soon after a game. Although they can be annoying, eye floaters are usually not a problem and don't require treatment. She found a doctor across the border who claimed to have perfected a much simpler, essentially risk-free procedure called ‘laser obliteration of floaters,’ and her heart beat faster. By the time I made it back to camp, I was seeing floaters and flashes. I have had recent problems with what my physician called floaters. She wished she could turn back the clock, relive the day before the floater's advent just one last day unclouded by this random smear, the world still crystalline in both eyes. But I've become used to the floaters, as well as that low-volume, high-pitched hissing sound that I began to notice a year ago in the background of music from my stereo. You may experience light sensitivity, redness, pain, floaters and blurry vision. Intermediate uveitis is characterised by floaters and blurred vision and varies in severity. Symptoms include floaters and blurred vision caused by swelling of the optic disc. 2North American informal A person who frequently changes occupation or residence. 〈非正式，主北美〉经常变换工作者；居无定所者 Example sentencesExamples In three cases a vacancy was not filled by an intruding floater while nearby intruding floaters were present in the area. The sparks came from locomotives, settlers, hobo floaters, and lightning. The number of nonbreeders was estimated from census data on the ratio of floaters to residents during the rainy season. The adult population consisted of two status categories, residents and floaters. However, we have no reliable estimates of floater population size. I heard a social worker call kids like that floaters in the office the day they took me there. 3North American A worker who is required to do a variety of tasks as the need for each arises. 〈北美〉（根据需要改换任务的）杂工，临时工 Example sentencesExamples The soil test labs have been busy and there are a few floaters applying fertilizer in the field but not much other activity. If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater. This occurred most often when the physician was on call at night, or when the nurse was a floater. A floater was present in each classroom during the administration of the questionnaires to answer individual questions. 4US An insurance policy covering loss of articles without specifying a location. 〈美〉流动财产保险单 Example sentencesExamples If you own luxury items, you'll probably need additional insurance - known as a rider or floater - to cover them.
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