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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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storage

— noun the act of storing something — noun the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials — noun (= storehouse) a depository for goods storehouses were built close to the docks — noun (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk — noun (= reposition, warehousing) depositing in a warehouse they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn my car is in storage publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing — noun (= memory) an electronic memory device a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached

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unit Noun

— One of a measure of something; the amount of something that is counted as "one". Measure five units to the left. $4 is the unit price. A pound is a useful unit for thinking about amounts of butter. — Form of measurement. I prefer metric units. — Item, used when no other word for something exists. He set up the A/C unit.

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