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water level en · NOUN

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1. The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
   • There is one feature of interest: at Rendsburg after a not too-easily graded ascent from the plain by means of an embankment, the train crosses the Kiel Canal by a double-track steel bridge 138 ft. above water-level, with, on a clear day, magnificent views over the countryside, and then loops round right, descending to canal level and, parallel with the canal, crossing under the bridge over which it passed a few minutes previously. 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 337:
2. The level of the water table below ground.
3. The waterline of a ship.
4. (also, attributive) (Relating to) an instrument to show the level by means of the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe.
   • A water level indicator of the float type is provided. 1957 October 14, “Modification of "West Country" Class Pacific”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
5. (attributive) Of a route that follows a riverbank or shoreline.
   • The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany! 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:

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Translations (41)

da vandstand (level of a body of water) · ro nivel de apă (level of a body of water) · fi vesilinja (waterline of a ship) · ja 水準器 (instrument) · pl poziomica wężowa (instrument) · ca nivell de l'aigua (level of a body of water) · hi जलस्तर (level of water table below ground) · nb vannstand (level of a body of water) · ca nivell d'aigua (waterline of a ship) · ko 수위 (level of water table below ground) · mr पाणीपातळी (level of a body of water) · ga leibhéal uisce (level of a body of water) · fi veden taso (level of a body of water) · fi pohjaveden korkeus (level of water table below ground) · hi जलस्तर (level of a body of water) · sv djupgående (waterline of a ship) · fi letkuvesivaaka (instrument) · pl szlaufwaga (instrument) · ko 수위 (level of a body of water) · cy lefel ddŵr (level of a body of water) · cmn 水準儀 /水准仪 (instrument) · de Wasserspiegel (level of a body of water) · hu vízállás (level of a body of water) · fi vesivaaka (instrument) · de Wasserlinie (waterline of a ship) · cmn 地下水位 (level of water table below ground) · fi pohjavedenpinta (level of water table below ground) · fi vedenkorkeus (level of a body of water) · fi vedenpinta (level of a body of water) · de Schlauchwaage (instrument) · sv grundvattennivå (level of water table below ground) · cmn 水位 (level of a body of water) · ja 準 (instrument) · de Wasserstand (level of a body of water) · ja 喫水線 (waterline of a ship) · sv vattenstånd (level of a body of water) · da dybgående (waterline of a ship) · cmn 吃水線 /吃水线 (waterline of a ship) · fi pohjaveden taso (level of water table below ground) · ja 水位 (level of a body of water) · mk водостој (level of a body of water)