floater : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: floater	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for floater
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
floater n 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(s): musca volitans, muscae volitantes, floater, spots a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support Synonym(s): vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election a swimmer who floats in the water an object that floats or is capable of floating an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location Synonym(s): floater, floating policy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Floater \Float"er\ (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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Floater \Float"er\, n. 1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.