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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#m1)

2) A line or mark showing how high water has come, for example on a wall after a flood, or on a beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#x1)
- When we added marbles to our foil boat, the waterline rose up its side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#x2)
- A hole below the waterline can sink a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#x3)
- You can still see the waterline on the walls from last year's flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#x4)
- The heavier the cargo, the lower the ship sits in the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#x5)
- We marked the waterline on our model boat with a pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «waterline» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterline/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.