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Definition: Plimsoll Line |
Plimsoll LineNoun1. Waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The Plimsoll line is the mark on the hull of a ship that shows where the waterline is when the ship is at full capacity.The official name is the international load line, since the Plimsoll line is an international load limit standard. It was named after Samuel Plimsoll, who instigated the passage of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1875, which established the marking of a load line on every cargo ship.
An early type of training shoe with a canvas upper and rubber sole, developed as beachwear in the 1830s by the Liverpool Rubber Company (later to become Dunlop), was first called the 'sand shoe', and in the 1870s acquired the nickname plimsoll because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled a Plimsoll line.
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Synonym: Plimsoll LineSynonym: load line (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Flood mark, high water mark; Plimsoll line; index. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Plimsoll Line |
| Specialty definitions using "Plimsoll line": Deadweight. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "Plimsoll line"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | ватерлиния (plimsoll's-mark-line, waterline), диск на плимсол. (various references) | |
Danish | lastelinje(mærke). (various references) | |
Dutch | Plimsollmerk, uitwateringsmerk, lastlijn (laden waterline, load waterline), laadlijn (laden waterline, load waterline). (various references) | |
Finnish | lastimerkki. (various references) | |
French | ligne de franc-bord. (various references) | |
German | Ladelinie. (various references) | |
Greek | γραμμή Plimsoll. (various references) | |
Hungarian | plimsoll vonal, merülési vonal. (various references) | |
Italian | linea di carico. (various references) | |
Manx | yn clat. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imsollplay inelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | marca Plimsoll. (various references) | |
Russian | грузовая марка (plimsoll's mark-line). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plimsolova linija (plimsoll's mark-line). (various references) | |
Spanish | línea de máxima carga (plimsoll mark), línea de carga (load-line). (various references) | |
Swedish | lastmärke (load-line). (various references) | |
Turkish | azami su kesimi işareti (plimsoll mark). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-l-l-l-m-n-o-p-s" | |
-4 letters: millines, millions, pillions, plimsole, plimsoll. | |
-5 letters: elision, epsilon, implies, impones, isoline, lionise, lollies, lomeins, milline, million, mollies, niellos, peonism, pillion, pinoles, plenism, plimsol, pollens, sinopie, splenii. | |
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