floater 音标拼音: [fl'otɚ]
n . 漂浮者,漂浮物,浮子
漂浮者,漂浮物,浮子
floater n 1 :
spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens ; "
floaters seem to drift through the field of vision " [
synonym : {
musca volitans },
{
muscae volitantes }, {
floater }, {
spots }]
2 :
a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (
e .
g .
the rate paid by T -
bills )
3 :
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [
synonym : {
vagrant }, {
drifter }, {
floater }, {
vagabond }]
4 :
an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed 5 :
a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election 6 :
a swimmer who floats in the water 7 :
an object that floats or is capable of floating 8 :
an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (
e .
g .
jewelry )
regardless of its location [
synonym : {
floater },
{
floating policy }]
Floater \
Float "
er \,
n .
1 .
One who floats or swims .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 . (
Politics )
(
a )
A voter who shifts from party to party ,
esp .
one whose vote is purchasable . [
U .
S .]
(
b )
A person ,
as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature ,
who represents an irregular constituency ,
as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (
or an extra )
representative of its own . [
U .
S .]
(
c )
A person who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts ,
either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted . [
U .
S .]
[
Webster 1913 Suppl .]
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "
floater ":
Ahasuerus ,
Ancient Mariner ,
Argonaut ,
Flying Dutchman ,
Goliard ,
Odysseus ,
Oisin ,
Ossian ,
Ulysses ,
ballot -
box stuffer ,
balloter ,
bird of passage ,
bum ,
derelict ,
drifter ,
elector ,
fraudulent voter ,
gad ,
gadabout ,
go -
about ,
hobo ,
itinerant ,
mover ,
peregrinator ,
peregrine ,
peripatetic ,
proxy ,
rambler ,
registered voter ,
repeater ,
roamer ,
rolling stone ,
rover ,
runabout ,
straggler ,
street arab ,
stroller ,
strolling player ,
tramp ,
troubadour ,
vag ,
vagrant ,
visitant ,
voter ,
wanderer ,
wandering minstrel ,
wandering scholar
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