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Definition of free-floating in English: free-floatingadjective 1Not attached to anything and able to move freely. free-floating aquatic plants Example sentencesExamples - Pistia, a free-floating aquatic plant, was used because it produces an abundance of Ca oxalate crystals and rapidly assimilates reagents provided in liquid growth media.
- As the ancient Egyptians interpreted it, the cause of these abnormalities was the movement of the uterus, which they believed to be an autonomous, free-floating organism that could move upward from its normal pelvic position.
- The species range from tropical tree ferns with leaves measured in yards, to small free-floating aquatics with leaves less than a sixteenth of an inch long.
- One of our group had reeled in a length of free-floating fishing line to find it attached to a thrashing barracuda.
- By keeping a constant and sufficient pool of free-floating amino acids in your body, you may be able to minimize your body's catabolic - or muscle wasting - response while maximizing its anabolic response.
- You can take things and punish them, use processes that are so radical that it becomes something all on its own, free-floating organic music.
- Phytoplankton consist of many diverse species of microscopic free-floating marine plants that serve as food to other ocean-living forms of life.
- The defence analyst said it was not unknown for mines, usually from World War II, to be found free-floating in the Irish Sea.
- The weed has spread rapidly over the last year with a thick mat with free-floating stems that can grow up to 10m long now covering several hectares of the lake.
- It ranges from classic rock sounds to jazzy guitar riffs to free-floating musical epics.
- The book is not so much a formal ‘autobiography’ as a free-floating memoir.
- Arguably best is the new free-floating camera, which can be moved around almost anywhere on the set, allowing much greater freedom in composing any particular shot.
- This dark green plant is a free-floating plant.
- Australian scientists are leading this research to tap the secrets of the seas through free-floating robots, after a successful two-year trial of 10 of the sophisticated instruments off northwest Western Australia.
- Besides bringing all the instruments together, it really makes the vocals work, which had seemed super free-floating and unstructured in the previous section, lacking as it did either a kick or a regular organ arpeggiator.
- A free-floating aquatic native to southern Brazil, it was accidentally introduced into Sri Lanka in 1939, and has now leaped the continents to become a pest in Africa, Australia, India, and New Zealand.
- While some consider giant salvinia to be an attractive aquatic plant, this free-floating fern is also an obnoxious invader that's sometimes referred to as ‘the world's worst water weed.’
- Instead of building large numbers of tiny, free-floating robots to manufacture products, it would be more practical to use simple robot-arms in nanotech factories of the future.
- Salps are filter feeders, each one a tireless vacuum continuously clearing phytoplankton (minute free-floating plants) from the sea by filtering water through a mucus net as it swims..
- 1.1 Not assigned to a particular category or level.
free-floating exchange rates Example sentencesExamples - He urged people not to be surprised by sharp increases or drops in the value of the rupiah because the free-floating system allowed the market to fully dictate the currency's exchange rate.
- She pointed out that other currencies, including the US dollar, German mark and South Korean won, which implemented a free-floating exchange rate system were relatively stable.
- I like very balanced monetary policies and I'm a full advocate of a free-floating exchange rate.
- Interestingly, ‘homily’ is the most directly Scripture-linked term, while ‘sermon’ is a more free-floating, umbrella term.
- Organized the sessions a little more tightly; for me, free-floating discussions don't work once you get over 6-8 people.
- The proposals are appalling - they are simply free-floating ideas which lack depth.
- A free-floating peso puts in doubt the ability of the private sector to service its dollar-denominated debt and raises the specter of bankruptcy.
- Research methods are much more free-floating than is sometimes supposed.
- Consequently, nations with free-floating currencies will continue to lose competitiveness against some of the world's largest exporters and their respective imbalances will grow accordingly.
- It is also free-floating, and even at the height of the April uprising and the battle for Najaf, it remained stable, trading between 1,400 and 1,500 dinars to the dollar.
- Words are not free-floating signs, they float all right, but not freely.
- The HMD website discusses ‘prejudice, racism and other forms of bigotry’ as a kind of free-floating force which, when pushed to its extremes, can unleash a Holocaust.
- Instead of depleting precious foreign reserves, the government diverts the heavy demand for foreign currency to the free-floating exchange rate market.
- I don't think there is much doubt that being an internationally used currency in a world of free-floating exchange rates gives you some (though pretty small) net gains.
- After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the IMF recommended that Indonesia adopt a free-floating exchange rate system for its local forex market, in which the rupiah's exchange rate is determined solely by market supply and demand.
- At the same time they were not free-floating decisions, independent of the political balance and cultural traditions of British society.
- In the free-floating exchange of ideas, however, the scientists repeatedly put reins on wildly galloping progress.
- 1.2 (of a person) not committed to a particular cause or political party.
Example sentencesExamples - They prefer to see a world of free-floating atoms, individuals simply making individual moral decisions.
- It is our immature culture, which pictures people as free-floating individuals who aren't judged or categorised by anyone, that makes final university exams seem final.
- We are all free-floating atoms, who make our way in society as we choose.
- It is because these groups are free-floating agents rather than rooted political actors, reflecting the kind of Western intervention that revived their fortunes in the 1990s, that they can execute what appear to be unthinkable acts.
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(of anxiety) chronic and generalized, without an obvious cause. Example sentencesExamples - Tension headaches, dry mouth, pounding pulse, neck and back pain, free-floating anxiety, hives, indigestion, irritability and fatigue are all indicators of stress.
- The public suffers from a great deal of free-floating anxiety and this exploits those fears.
- And the response to this was this kind of free-floating anxiety, where they didn't know what threatened them.
- Many of us live with free-floating fear and anxiety that settles on different issues de jour - from terrorist attacks to earthquakes to tragic diseases, God forbid.
- Like many pregnant women, she is distilling all of society's free-floating anxiety about exposure to toxic chemicals into nine months of serious worrying.
Derivatives verb [with object]1Cause or allow (something) to float freely. logs were free-floated downriver - 1.1no object Be unattached and float freely.
Example sentencesExamples - This versatile AR-style rifle has a free-floated, fluted barrel and a 3 lb. trigger.
- The gyroscope rotors, which will be secured to their housing during takeoff, will free-float once the satellite is in orbit, and will never touch their housing after they have reached their operational speed of 10,000 rpm.
- The lining free-floats inside the carbon nanotube with a 0.32 nanometer space all around it because that is as close as nature allows the water to the carbon.
- the lining free-floats inside the tube
noun The luminosities of these faint free-floaters overlap with those expected for recently formed giant planets. Example sentencesExamples - In these regions, the stress of wave action makes life difficult for free-floaters; most organisms who live here attach themselves to the rocks.
- Now, some astronomers claim that at least one of these objects may not be a free-floater after all.
Definition of free-floating in US English: free-floatingadjectivefri ˈfloʊdɪŋfrē ˈflōdiNG 1Not attached to anything and able to move freely. free-floating aquatic plants Example sentencesExamples - Phytoplankton consist of many diverse species of microscopic free-floating marine plants that serve as food to other ocean-living forms of life.
- You can take things and punish them, use processes that are so radical that it becomes something all on its own, free-floating organic music.
- Besides bringing all the instruments together, it really makes the vocals work, which had seemed super free-floating and unstructured in the previous section, lacking as it did either a kick or a regular organ arpeggiator.
- By keeping a constant and sufficient pool of free-floating amino acids in your body, you may be able to minimize your body's catabolic - or muscle wasting - response while maximizing its anabolic response.
- The species range from tropical tree ferns with leaves measured in yards, to small free-floating aquatics with leaves less than a sixteenth of an inch long.
- While some consider giant salvinia to be an attractive aquatic plant, this free-floating fern is also an obnoxious invader that's sometimes referred to as ‘the world's worst water weed.’
- Arguably best is the new free-floating camera, which can be moved around almost anywhere on the set, allowing much greater freedom in composing any particular shot.
- The weed has spread rapidly over the last year with a thick mat with free-floating stems that can grow up to 10m long now covering several hectares of the lake.
- This dark green plant is a free-floating plant.
- A free-floating aquatic native to southern Brazil, it was accidentally introduced into Sri Lanka in 1939, and has now leaped the continents to become a pest in Africa, Australia, India, and New Zealand.
- Pistia, a free-floating aquatic plant, was used because it produces an abundance of Ca oxalate crystals and rapidly assimilates reagents provided in liquid growth media.
- The book is not so much a formal ‘autobiography’ as a free-floating memoir.
- The defence analyst said it was not unknown for mines, usually from World War II, to be found free-floating in the Irish Sea.
- As the ancient Egyptians interpreted it, the cause of these abnormalities was the movement of the uterus, which they believed to be an autonomous, free-floating organism that could move upward from its normal pelvic position.
- Instead of building large numbers of tiny, free-floating robots to manufacture products, it would be more practical to use simple robot-arms in nanotech factories of the future.
- Australian scientists are leading this research to tap the secrets of the seas through free-floating robots, after a successful two-year trial of 10 of the sophisticated instruments off northwest Western Australia.
- One of our group had reeled in a length of free-floating fishing line to find it attached to a thrashing barracuda.
- Salps are filter feeders, each one a tireless vacuum continuously clearing phytoplankton (minute free-floating plants) from the sea by filtering water through a mucus net as it swims..
- It ranges from classic rock sounds to jazzy guitar riffs to free-floating musical epics.
- 1.1 Not assigned to a fixed or particular position, category, or level.
free-floating exchange rates Example sentencesExamples - He urged people not to be surprised by sharp increases or drops in the value of the rupiah because the free-floating system allowed the market to fully dictate the currency's exchange rate.
- Consequently, nations with free-floating currencies will continue to lose competitiveness against some of the world's largest exporters and their respective imbalances will grow accordingly.
- At the same time they were not free-floating decisions, independent of the political balance and cultural traditions of British society.
- The HMD website discusses ‘prejudice, racism and other forms of bigotry’ as a kind of free-floating force which, when pushed to its extremes, can unleash a Holocaust.
- It is also free-floating, and even at the height of the April uprising and the battle for Najaf, it remained stable, trading between 1,400 and 1,500 dinars to the dollar.
- Instead of depleting precious foreign reserves, the government diverts the heavy demand for foreign currency to the free-floating exchange rate market.
- Interestingly, ‘homily’ is the most directly Scripture-linked term, while ‘sermon’ is a more free-floating, umbrella term.
- She pointed out that other currencies, including the US dollar, German mark and South Korean won, which implemented a free-floating exchange rate system were relatively stable.
- Words are not free-floating signs, they float all right, but not freely.
- I don't think there is much doubt that being an internationally used currency in a world of free-floating exchange rates gives you some (though pretty small) net gains.
- I like very balanced monetary policies and I'm a full advocate of a free-floating exchange rate.
- A free-floating peso puts in doubt the ability of the private sector to service its dollar-denominated debt and raises the specter of bankruptcy.
- Research methods are much more free-floating than is sometimes supposed.
- In the free-floating exchange of ideas, however, the scientists repeatedly put reins on wildly galloping progress.
- After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the IMF recommended that Indonesia adopt a free-floating exchange rate system for its local forex market, in which the rupiah's exchange rate is determined solely by market supply and demand.
- Organized the sessions a little more tightly; for me, free-floating discussions don't work once you get over 6-8 people.
- The proposals are appalling - they are simply free-floating ideas which lack depth.
- 1.2 (of a person) not committed to a particular cause or political party.
Example sentencesExamples - It is our immature culture, which pictures people as free-floating individuals who aren't judged or categorised by anyone, that makes final university exams seem final.
- It is because these groups are free-floating agents rather than rooted political actors, reflecting the kind of Western intervention that revived their fortunes in the 1990s, that they can execute what appear to be unthinkable acts.
- They prefer to see a world of free-floating atoms, individuals simply making individual moral decisions.
- We are all free-floating atoms, who make our way in society as we choose.
2Psychiatry
(of anxiety) chronic and generalized, without an obvious cause. Example sentencesExamples - Like many pregnant women, she is distilling all of society's free-floating anxiety about exposure to toxic chemicals into nine months of serious worrying.
- And the response to this was this kind of free-floating anxiety, where they didn't know what threatened them.
- Tension headaches, dry mouth, pounding pulse, neck and back pain, free-floating anxiety, hives, indigestion, irritability and fatigue are all indicators of stress.
- Many of us live with free-floating fear and anxiety that settles on different issues de jour - from terrorist attacks to earthquakes to tragic diseases, God forbid.
- The public suffers from a great deal of free-floating anxiety and this exploits those fears.
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