floating
adjective
being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
nonfloating
-
a word derived from
floating.
Example Sentences
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The Seattle-Bellevue timeline faces an additional obstacle Sound Transit disclosed in October: Concrete trackway supports built on nonfloating portions of I-90 had flawed dimensions and must be rebuilt, at contractor expense.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
“If it does take on heavy sediment loads and weathers, it can sink, and so it can become a nonfloating hydrocarbon.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 5, 2013
