waterline
pronunciation
How to pronounce waterline in British English:
UK [ˈwɔ:təlaɪn]
How to pronounce waterline in American English:
US [ˈwɔtərlaɪn]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- waterline (n.)
- also water-line, 1620s, line where the water rises to on the hull of a ship afloat, from water (n.1) + line (n.).
Example
- 1. A line of abandoned fishing boats marks the aral sea 's waterline of decades ago .
- 2. Below the waterline her bow has the bulbous drag-reducing nose that has become a familiar feature of modern ships .
- 3. Still , towing the iceberg all that way won 't do any good if the ocean 's ravages speed up melting at the waterline .
- 4. Protecting wall street what will happen to lower manhattan , the world 's financial hub , if distant ice caps melt and cause the waterline to rise by six feet ?
- 5. Dolphins have developed crusts of fungus on their fins ( 60 died this past year ) . Turtles have sprouted tumors , and blooms of dinoflagellates-called red tides-have cropped up , turning the waterline silver with the bellies of fish .