floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life
floating (e.g. in air, water); floatation; buoyancy; buoying up (e.g. economy)
juvenile vagrant; street urchin; waif; guttersnipe
vagrancy; vagabondage; wander around
floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
levitation; floating on air; airborne (e.g. bacteria); aero-
suspended particles; floating matter
bursting through the surface; suddenly surfacing; sudden increase (e.g. in public interest); fast rise (e.g. in rank)
drifting cloud; floating cloud; instability
frivolity; levity; shallowness; superficiality
groundless rumor; groundless rumour
frivolous; fickle; insincere; caprice; cold-heartedness
driftwood; floating timber
floating body; floating structure
emergency ascent (submarine); emergency surfacing
floating type (e.g. airport, offshore wind turbine)
empty show; frivolity; levity
floating fortress; warship
cerebral edema; cerebral oedema
Buddha; stupa; Buddhist temple; Buddhist monk
plant hopper (any insect of family Delphacidae); leafhopper
ice floe; floating ice; pack ice
double precision floating point
swimming belt; swimming float; life buoy; swim bladder; air bladder
maglev; magnetic levitation
reflation; stimulating the economy by increasing the money supply or by reducing taxes
buoyancy; flotage; floatage
frivolity; superficiality; fickleness; lack of substance
unlikely event; rare occurrence
floating-point arithmetic
groundless rumor; groundless rumour
flotation; flotation method
unlikely event; rare occurrence
random drift; genetic drift
center of buoyancy; centre of buoyancy
non-superconducting maglev train
superconducting maglev train
long precision floating point number
floating-point coprocessor
single precision floating point number
floating-leaved plant; floating plant
extended precision floating point number
emergency surfacing drill (submarine)
floating-point (representation) system
floating-point representation
floating-point base; floating-point radix
floating-point base; floating-point radix
floating-point accelerator
floating-point arithmetic unit
flotation method (mineral processing)
Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow
flotation (mineral processing method)
waste of money; extravagance