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n. the act of someone who floats on the water

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adj. borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"

aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant

adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

itinerant

adj. traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor"; "an itinerant judge"

based

adj. having a base of operations (often used as a combining form); "a locally based business"; "an Atlanta-based company"; "carrier-based planes"

braced, buttressed

adj. held up by braces or buttresses

pendent, pendant, dependent

adj. held from above; "a pendant bunch of grapes"

supernatant

adj. of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate; "the supernatant fat was skimmed off"

gimbaled

adj. supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips

suspended

adj. (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; "suspended matter such as silt or mud..."; "dust particles suspended in the air"; "droplets in suspension in a gas"

underhung

adj. supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above; "underhung sliding doors"

underslung

adj. supported from above especially in a vehicle having springs attached to the axle from below

erratic, planetary, wandering

adj. having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

homeless, stateless

adj. without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"

migrant, migratory

adj. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"

mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering

adj. migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

peripatetic, wayfaring

adj. traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger"

rootless, vagabond

adj. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer"

unlocated

adj. lacking a particular location

settled

adj. established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"

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