floater vs rover

rover vs floater

floater and rover both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
floater	Yes	No	No	No
rover	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rover is a hypernym of floater; that is, rover is a word with a broader meaning than floater:

floater: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
rover: someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Other hypernyms of floater include have-not, poor person, bird of passage, roamer, wanderer.

floater (noun)	rover (noun)
an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location	someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
an object that floats or is capable of floating	an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
a swimmer who floats in the water
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

Difference between floater and rover

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