WATERLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waterline mean? 

• WATERLINE (noun)
  The noun WATERLINE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: WATERLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

water level; water line; waterline

Hypernyms ("waterline" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterline"):

load line; Plimsoll; Plimsoll line; Plimsoll mark (waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded)

 Context examples 

The HISPANIOLA, in that unbroken mirror, was exactly portrayed from the truck to the waterline, the Jolly Roger hanging from her peak.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)