floating vs migrant

floating

noun
  • The motion of something that floats. 

  • Material that floats in a liquid. 

  • A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth. 

  • The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls. 

adj
  • That floats or float. 

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

  • that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme. 

migrant

noun
  • A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another. 

  • A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird. 

  • Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another. 

  • Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant. 

adj
  • Migratory. 

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