water planen.1
/ˈwɔːtə ˌpleɪn/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌpleɪn/, /ˈwɑdər ˌpleɪn/ 1.
a. A plane or level corresponding to the upper surface of a body of water; a water surface; (Physical Geography) = water table n. 4.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > water table
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water level?1794
water table1823
waterline1829
the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > surface of
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1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher III. lvii & lviii. 980 In the Horizontal Water-Plane [Du. water-vlak] AB, just below the Cover of the Cistern AB, the Plane VR is pres'd by a cubical Foot of Water, or 63 Pounds.
1862 W. S. Harris Nat. Defences 59 Parabolic angles at which the direction of the shot strikes the water plane.
1898 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 6 595 Those [small basins] which are confidently referred to aqueous forces occur below the water plane, or are surely subaqueous.
1923 Boys' Life Feb. 22/1 They were on another water plane, as if they had passed through a lock.
1979 W. Tovell Great Lakes 25/1 Trace this figure and draw contours to illustrate the present slope of the Iroquois water plane.
2005 Amer. Antiq. 70 676/2 This period in the upper Great Lakes is initially related to water levels as much as ca. 160 m (450+ ft) below the modern water plane at 10,500–7000 B.P.
b. Shipbuilding. A horizontal plane conceived as passing through a vessel when afloat, level with the surface of the water. Cf. waterline n. 1.Sometimes with modifying word indicating the plane of the ship under various conditions, as light-water-plane, load-water-plane.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > lines, sections, or elevations
middle line?c1400
sweep1627
lines1680
touch1711
waterline1750
station1754
sheer-draught1769
body plan1781
sheer-line1797
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water plane1798
centreline1806
buttock line1816
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top-breadth line1846
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floor-plan1867
1798 Oracle & Public Advertiser 30 Jan. Having this day seen here two plans, said to be of the Rafts intended for the Invasion of England, curiosity led me to calculate the superficial content of the Base, or Water-plane.
1800 Coll. Papers Naval Archit. II. 22 With every store on board fully loaded, I suppose the lower deck to be the load-water-plane.
1830 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan.–June 345 One obvious method of counteracting this tendency to instability, and that most usually resorted to, is to add weight below the water plane.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. i. 8 The line in which the surface of the water cuts the surface of the ship..is called the water line.., the area enclosed by that line being the water plane area.
1905 F. M. Saxelby Course Pract. Math. xxiv. 328 We may..know the way in which the area of the horizontal section or water-plane of a ship varies from point to point along an axis drawn vertically from the keel.
1911 Cent. Dict. VIII. (rev. ed.) at Water-plane When a vessel has her stores and equipments only on board, such a plane is a light water-plane.
1998 Yachts & Yachting 17 Apr. 50/1 Well balanced waterplanes and a large rudder ensure continuing directional control at quite large angles of heel.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > types of canal
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1847 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 12 June 376/2 The cars..run by gravity to Carbondale..where they connect with the main road, near the foot of the water plane.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. v. vi. 386 We find him [sc. Brindley] contriving a water-plane for the Duke's collieries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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