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floating

— adjective borne up by or suspended in a liquid the ship is still floating floating logs floating seaweed — adjective not definitely committed to a party or policy floating voters — adjective inclined to move or be moved about a floating crap game — adjective (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position floating ribs are not connected with the sternum a floating kidney — noun the act of someone who floats on the water — adjective (= drifting, vagrant) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another a drifting double-dealer the floating population vagrant hippies of the sixties

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point Noun

— A point is a position with no size, or a small dot. These two lines meet at this point. — A point is the sharp end of a knife or other sharp thing. He used the point of the knife to make a hole in the can. — The point of something is the reason or purpose for it. The whole point of coming here was to plant this tree, so let's not go home without doing it. — A point is a dot between two numbers. To the dot's right, you find a decimal. The price has gone up by two point five percent.

point Verb

— To point at something is to hold one finger (or a stick, arrow or other long, thin thing) in the direction of the thing so that people will look at the thing. He pointed her toward the gate.

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processor

— noun a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market — noun someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.) — noun (= CPU, C.P.U.) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached

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