Floatingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/
• 韻: -əʊtɪŋ

形容詞

floating (not comparable)

1. That floats or float.

   floating buoys

2. Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.

   The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.

   In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.

   You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 198:

     "And I am much mistaken if she has not some floating fancy of her own."

3. (linguistics, phonology, of a tone, or by extension any segment or feature) Present in the underlying phonological representation but not linked to an anchor on which it can surface.
   • 1974, Larry M. Hyman, Russell G. Schuh, “Universals of Tone Rules: Evidence from West Africa”, in Linguistic Inquiry, volume 5, number 1, →JSTOR, page 86:

     Historically, there was an accompanying vowel, but synchronically, a mere "floating" high tone is posited. In stage (b) this high tone causes the preceding low tone to raise to a raised-low tone via the process of low-raising. Finally, in stage (c) the floating high tone is lost.

   • 2009 October, Eun-Sook Kim, Douglas Pulleyblank, “Glottalization and Lenition in Nuu-chah-nulth”, in Linguistic Inquiry‎, volume 40, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 567-617:

     Two classes of suffixes beginning with [+constricted glottis] ([+c.g.]) must be distinguished: those that invariably begin with a glottal stop and those that induce the glottalization of a preceding segment. Following Kim (2003), we attribute the difference to whether the suffix begins with a full glottal stop or a floating glottal “subsegment” (Zoll 1996). The essence of the distinction is that the full glottal stops consist underlyingly of a root node linked to a [+c.g.] feature while the subsegments consist solely of a [+c.g.] specification.

派生語

動詞

floating

1. present participle and gerund of float

名詞

floating (plural floatings)

1. The motion of something that floats.
2. (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
   • 1898, Journal of Microscopy, page 256:

     Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.

3. The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
4. (veterinary medicine) A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.

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