free-floatingadj.

Brit.

/ˌfriːˈfləʊtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌfriˈfloʊdɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adv., floating adj.

Etymology: < free adv. + floating adj.

1. Not firmly fixed or attached to anything, and thus able to move freely. Also: (of a structure) not fully built in, free-standing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > moving easily or freely > not fixed

unfixed1605

ambulant1809

free-floating1815

1815 J. Gordon Syst. Human Anat. I. ii. i. 50 It [sc. a valve-like membrane] begins to incline inwards again, and after running a short way, ceases, leaving a free floating straight edge.

1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 28 Emulous which the first shall set his boat Free-floating from the clutches of deep sand, Men lean and strive.

a1887 E. Lazarus Poems (1889) I. 172 A slender, winged, ethereal, lily form, Dove-eyed, with fair, free-floating, pearl-wreathed hair.

1921 Jrnl. Ecol. 9 241 A suggestion as to factors influencing the distribution of free-floating vegetation.

1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 40 Gelatinous balls,..attached to rocks or to plants, sometimes free-floating and rolled by the waves in shallow water.

1972 Bull. Amer. Group Internat. Inst. Conservation Apr. 64 The plan was to suspend the..relief..as a free floating unit standing some 12″ away from its supporting wall.

2001 Sci. News 30 June 406/1 An overabundance of free-floating beta-amyloid molecules catalyzes the creation of reactive forms of oxygen.

2. figurative. Of a thought, emotion (esp. anxiety), etc.: having no obvious focus or cause; non-specific, diffuse, generalized.

ΚΠ

1898 E. L. Thorndike in Psychol. Rev. Monogr. Suppl. II. iv. 84 No tennis-player's stream of thought is filled with free-floating representations of any of the tens of thousands of sense-impressions or movements he has seen and made on the tennis-court.

1920 G. S. Hall tr. S. Freud Gen. Introd. Psychoanal. xxv. 344 We find a general condition of anxiety, a condition of free‐floating fear as it were, which is ready to attach itself to any appropriate idea.

1925 J. T. MacCurdy Psychol. of Emotion vi. 41 Such isolation of affect is commonest in morbid conditions, when it is most frequently seen as a ‘free floating anxiety’, a fear without ground in either outward stimulus or inward thought that the patient knows about.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 693/2 The phobia..acts as a ‘defence’ enabling the patient to cope with deep-rooted anxiety which would otherwise erupt in the ‘free-floating’ form.

a1992 L. Colwin Big Storm knocked it Over (1993) xi. 78 The year and a half he had spent, an only son, in Vietnam, racked with a free-floating guilt that his mother would be left alone.

3. Not associated with or applicable to a specific group, category, etc.; unaffiliated, independent; free-ranging, unconstrained.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > free from obligations or ties

freeOE

loosec1374

unbound1390

unobligedc1580

footloose1650

free-floating1927

1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xx. 419 The gang forms in this social stratum for much the same reasons that it forms among the free-floating boy population of Chicago's junior gangland.

1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1058/3 The more free-floating culture of bohemia.

1982 ‘J. Gash’ Spend Game ii. 22 He scratches a living as a free-floating barker.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 June 8/1 College students and other idlers..liked to use the latest stack of Marvel Comics as text for a free-floating commentary.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	free-floating
释义	free-floatingadj. Brit. /ˌfriːˈfləʊtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌfriˈfloʊdɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adv., floating adj. Etymology: < free adv. + floating adj. 1. Not firmly fixed or attached to anything, and thus able to move freely. Also: (of a structure) not fully built in, free-standing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > moving easily or freely > not fixed unfixed1605 ambulant1809 free-floating1815 1815 J. Gordon Syst. Human Anat. I. ii. i. 50 It [sc. a valve-like membrane] begins to incline inwards again, and after running a short way, ceases, leaving a free floating straight edge. 1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 28 Emulous which the first shall set his boat Free-floating from the clutches of deep sand, Men lean and strive. a1887 E. Lazarus Poems (1889) I. 172 A slender, winged, ethereal, lily form, Dove-eyed, with fair, free-floating, pearl-wreathed hair. 1921 Jrnl. Ecol. 9 241 A suggestion as to factors influencing the distribution of free-floating vegetation. 1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 40 Gelatinous balls,..attached to rocks or to plants, sometimes free-floating and rolled by the waves in shallow water. 1972 Bull. Amer. Group Internat. Inst. Conservation Apr. 64 The plan was to suspend the..relief..as a free floating unit standing some 12″ away from its supporting wall. 2001 Sci. News 30 June 406/1 An overabundance of free-floating beta-amyloid molecules catalyzes the creation of reactive forms of oxygen. 2. figurative. Of a thought, emotion (esp. anxiety), etc.: having no obvious focus or cause; non-specific, diffuse, generalized. ΚΠ 1898 E. L. Thorndike in Psychol. Rev. Monogr. Suppl. II. iv. 84 No tennis-player's stream of thought is filled with free-floating representations of any of the tens of thousands of sense-impressions or movements he has seen and made on the tennis-court. 1920 G. S. Hall tr. S. Freud Gen. Introd. Psychoanal. xxv. 344 We find a general condition of anxiety, a condition of free‐floating fear as it were, which is ready to attach itself to any appropriate idea. 1925 J. T. MacCurdy Psychol. of Emotion vi. 41 Such isolation of affect is commonest in morbid conditions, when it is most frequently seen as a ‘free floating anxiety’, a fear without ground in either outward stimulus or inward thought that the patient knows about. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 693/2 The phobia..acts as a ‘defence’ enabling the patient to cope with deep-rooted anxiety which would otherwise erupt in the ‘free-floating’ form. a1992 L. Colwin Big Storm knocked it Over (1993) xi. 78 The year and a half he had spent, an only son, in Vietnam, racked with a free-floating guilt that his mother would be left alone. 3. Not associated with or applicable to a specific group, category, etc.; unaffiliated, independent; free-ranging, unconstrained. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > free from obligations or ties freeOE loosec1374 unbound1390 unobligedc1580 footloose1650 free-floating1927 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xx. 419 The gang forms in this social stratum for much the same reasons that it forms among the free-floating boy population of Chicago's junior gangland. 1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1058/3 The more free-floating culture of bohemia. 1982 ‘J. Gash’ Spend Game ii. 22 He scratches a living as a free-floating barker. 2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 June 8/1 College students and other idlers..liked to use the latest stack of Marvel Comics as text for a free-floating commentary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1815
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