waterline

«waterline» in Mova's school dictionary: The line along the side of a ship or boat where the water… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the waterline, waterlines)

meaning for a pupil

1) The line along the side of a ship or boat where the water reaches. tree →

2) A line or mark showing how high water has come, for example on a wall after a flood, or on a beach. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on floating, the waterline shows how deep a boat sits in the water: the more weight it carries, the lower it floats and the higher the waterline climbs up its side. After floods, waterlines on buildings show how deep the flood was. Phrases: "below the waterline", "above the waterline".

examples

• The ship was painted red below the waterline. tree →
• When we added marbles to our foil boat, the waterline rose up its side. tree →
• A hole below the waterline can sink a ship. tree →
• You can still see the waterline on the walls from last year's flood. tree →
• The heavier the cargo, the lower the ship sits in the water. tree →
• We marked the waterline on our model boat with a pen. tree →

note

Countable; usually "the waterline". One word (sometimes "water line"). Ships have special marks (Plimsoll lines) to show the safe waterline when loaded.

In the corpora

• If the ship pushes aside water that weighs as much as the whole ship before its deck reaches the waterline, it floats.

Trees and pragmatics

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