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Meanings of floater in English

Catalan
pampallugues
Spanish
miodesopsias
Wikidata

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens.

pampallugues
Russian
глазные мушки
Portuguese
moscas volantes
Spanish
miodesopsias
Catalan
mosca volant
Wikidata

Deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's vitreous humour, which is normally transparent.

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глазные мушки
Synonyms
Examples for "floaters"
Examples for "floaters"
1
Someone in his position tends to attract floaters, hangers-on and glory hunters.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
A room specially ventilated for decomps, floaters, mummified corpses, and other aromatics.
Monday Mourning
3
Is this what freedom looks like-dispersedfloaters in an uncharted sea?
Wired
4
Weightlessness is an exhilarating novelty, but floaters soon begin to dream of walking.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
5
There ain't no time to investigate floaters over-particular in the wilderness.
The Hunted Woman
Portuguese
mendigo
Catalan
vagabund

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support.

mendigo
Catalan
pòlissa oberta
Spanish
póliza abierta

An insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location.

pòlissa oberta
Usage of floater in English
1
The air-floater took off as soon as they climbed in, heading east.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
2
The retrieval accuracy improved when greater proportions of the floater were selected.
Pubmed
3
The air-floater rose ever higher, well out over the depression of Kalithras.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
4
The air-floater drifted serenely across the skies, heading northeast toward the coast.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
5
Irisis woke in the night, realising that the air-floater was not moving.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
6
She felt a rush of wind as the air-floater appeared above them.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
7
As Saundra seemed to finish, Irma slowed her floater to a halt.
The unincorporated man
8
Predators goalie Pekka Rinne was beaten by a floater of a shot.
Reuters
9
Was the Hemmingford floater an older version of the kid from Lumberton?
Spider bones: a novel
10
But poor old Ruthven here is a bad floater-heshould sit facing.
Poison or Protect
11
The head of the house must be on the lookout for the floater.
Tales of the Road
12
Early the following morning, the air-floater turned south and headed towards the ground.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
13
The red and yellow floater was pulled way under the water.
Seven O'Clock Stories
14
My grandfather had never taken out a floater policy on it.
The burglar who painted like mondrian
15
Tom is no squatter, not being on land; I call him a floater.
The Deerslayer
16
The rotor tore away from the air-floater and went spinning into the night.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)