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词汇 floater
释义 floater
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈfləʊ.tər/ us /ˈfloʊ.t̬ɚ/

floaternoun[C] (SPOT IN EYE)


a small spot inside a person's eye that they see moving up and down or from side to side(因为飞蚊症)眼睛看到的(不存在的)浮游物
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Eyesight, glasses & lenses
accommodative
afterimage
age-related macular degeneration
amaurosis
amblyopia
dispensing optician
eyeglasses
glaucoma
limbus
long-sighted
long-sightedness
macula
macula lutea
macular
ocular
oculist
ophthalmology
wet macular degeneration
wraparounds
yellow spot

floaternoun[C] (PERSON)


mainly US
someone who does a lot of different jobs in an organization: 临时工,无固定工作的人;在同一个组织里做很多不同工作的人
He had worked as a floater, assigned to any of the fire stations across the county as the need arose.他曾做过流动工人,需要时被分配到全国各地的消防站工作。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of employment
admin
administrative
administrative assistant
administratively
at the coalfaceidiom
job-sharing
jobbing
jobless
joblessness
jobseeker
professionality
qualified
recertify
redundancy
redundant
well qualified
WFH
white-collar
who's whoidiom
wilderness yearsidiom

floaternoun[C] (THROW)


sports specialized
in cricket, an occasion where a player bowls (= throws the ball to the batter) so that the ball curves slowly in the air towards or away from the batter:
She drew the batter with a lovely floater that spun and took the edge of the bat.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cricket
12th man
all out
all-rounder
arm ball
asking rate
batting
bowl
eleven
hook
jaffa
king pair
late cut
leg break
leg bye
strike rate
sundries
switch-hit
tail
tailender
third man

floater | Business English


floater
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈfləʊtər/us
FINANCE informal
→ floating rate note
INSURANCE
→ floating policy
HR
a person with no fixed duties who is employed to move from job to job as needed

Examples of floater


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If a floater is involved a cap is put on the floater to match up with the inverse's floor, and vice versa.
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The investor can elect to split the issue again and retain the inverse floater portion.
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She describes herself at school as being a floater, someone who got along with everyone.
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Today, the original floater is made in seven different sizes and fourteen different colors.
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Parasitic females however can adopt either floater traits or nesting traits.
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While the above ingredients can be pre-mixed, a champagne floater is best added last.
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With an inverse floater, as interest rates rise the coupon rate falls.
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More advanced skills include the "floater" (riding on top of the breaking curl of the wave), and "off the lip" (banking off the breaking wave).
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An average floater has 3-4lb kg of positive buoyancy in fresh water.
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Another form of decoy that is sometimes used is called a floater.
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With the clock ticking away, he drove and missed a floater with 7 seconds left.
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As short-term interest rates fall, both the market price and the yield of the inverse floater increase.
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Their innovations include fuel cells, full-floater rear axle, on-board fire systems, quick change disk brakes, square tube frames, tube shocks.
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The pie floater is usually purchased in the street from pie-carts as a late evening meal.
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Players other than the dealer must bet 1 chip to look at the floater.
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