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wa·ter line

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. waterline, water line, water levelnoun

    a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship

  2. water line, watermarknoun

    a line marking the level reached by a body of water

Wiktionary

  1. water linenoun

    the outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.

  2. water linenoun

    Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.

  3. water linenoun

    Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.

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  1. water line

    A water line generally refers to a pipe or system of pipes that are used for supplying and transporting water from a main water source into homes, buildings, or other structures. It forms an integral part of a public or private plumbing system. Additionally, in maritime context, water line also refers to the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water, which indicates the loading capacity or buoyancy of a vessel.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Water line

    any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel

  2. Water line

    any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Water Line in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Water Line in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Water Line in a Sentence

  1. Ken Barlow:

    My land is in the exact SAME spot. It cannot ever move. Metes and Bounds exist for this exact reason, i was on the point last Saturday and used my hand held GPS and my trucks GPS to confirm my land is above the water line and was blending with the point just as I predicted. My land will always be there.

  2. Jason Potts:

    Trust in sending that person down below the water line to accomplish the mission, to repair a ship, you consider the fact that we send our divers down to replace 55,000-pound propellers on a submarine, and we send that submarine to sea to go out and support our combatant commanders on that one person's or two people's word that that ship is ready to go. That's an immense amount of trust.


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