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Water level   /wˈɔtər lˈɛvəl/   Listen
Water level

noun
1.
The level of the surface of a body of water.
2.
Underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water.  Synonyms: groundwater level, water table.
3.
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.  Synonyms: water line, waterline.
4.
A water gauge that shows the level by showing the surface of the water in a trough or U-shaped tube.





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"Water level" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a fit mate in audacity to the falls themselves. It is the highest in the world for it rises 400 feet above the low water level. Its main parabolic arch is a 500 foot span while the total length is 650 feet. Although its construction was fraught with contrast hazard it only cost two lives, despite the fact that seven hundred white men and two thousand natives were employed on it. In the building of the Firth of Forth ...
— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson
... could not yet be felt on the high table-land; the nights were so cool still that it was necessary to be well covered. But in the jungle below it was considerably hotter, and he knew well that intense heat would soon come. The rain now seldom bedewed the earth and the water level in the river lowered daily. Stas assumed that in summer the river would change into one of those "khors," of which he saw many in the Libyan Desert, and that only in the very middle of it would flow a narrow stream ...
— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... midnight. The chief furnished Ingram an oversuit and the young engineers dropped through manholes and down vertical and spiral ladders into the cellar of the steamer, the bottom of which was thirty feet below the water level. ...
— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton
... privacy. It was only about ten feet across; but it bore a favourable thicket of osier-willow, and all around it the sedge and bulrush reared an impenetrable screen. Its highest point was about two feet above average water level; and on this highest point the mallard duck established ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts
... water brought him instantly to his senses, and, being a fairly good swimmer, he had not the least difficulty in reaching and clutching the crosspiece of a wooden ladder that, coated with slimy sea moss, led from the water level to the ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle


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