- afloat - Not submerged - of Float - Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a
wreck; floating motes in the air. - Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating
ribs in man and some other animals. - Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
floating capital; a floating debt. - Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.