| 单词 | floating population |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfloating population 4. Not fixed or settled in a definite state or place; fluctuating, variable, unstable. Esp. in floating population. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [noun] > part or type of floating population1835 subpopulation1846 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 388 Because our mindes are more floting and vnstable. 1678 Life Black Prince in Harleian Misc. (1809) III. 151 Floating-bands..‘The Companions, or Adventurers’. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 25 There is scarce any one so floating and superficial in his Understanding, that hath not some reverenced Propositions, which [etc.]. 1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) 77 That floating multitude which goes with events. 1835 Niles' Reg. 27 June 289/1 The remark of a distinguished politician..in the convention of 1822, as to the power of what he called the ‘Floating Population’ over the result of elections. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xiv. 128 Many floating rumors. 1876 Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 302/1 The floating population of the city is very numerous. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out i. 7 The lodgers were a floating population..who used to turn up..stay a week and then disappear again. 1962 Lancet 26 May 1119/1 More people come to London. There is a greater floating population. 1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular i. 35 Innumerable other departments were represented—..Electra House,..the B.B.C., and a floating population from the Ministry of Information. < as lemmas |
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