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单词 floater
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floater

/ˈfləʊtə /
noun
1A person or thing that floats.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.
  • In fact, each painting on display at the ‘Floating Images’ is full of these floaters which serve as links in a shape-colour continuum.
1.1A loose particle within the eyeball which is apparent in one’s field of vision.You may experience light sensitivity, redness, pain, floaters and blurry vision....
  • Symptoms include floaters and blurred vision caused by swelling of the optic disc.
  • Intermediate uveitis is characterised by floaters and blurred vision and varies in severity.
2A floating voter.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....
  • ‘The joint committee is split almost evenly among three factions: a third reformers, a third dinosaurs and a third floaters,’ he added.
  • 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.
2.1 informal, chiefly North American A person who frequently changes occupation or residence.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.
2.2North American A worker who is required to do a variety of tasks as the need for each arises.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.
  • If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater.
3British informal, dated A mistake; a gaffe.
4US An insurance policy covering loss of articles without specifying a location.If you own luxury items, you'll probably need additional insurance - known as a rider or floater - to cover them.

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