freeboard

Converse of object

have: Dives are usually made from the deck as she has a low freeboard returning using a removable dive ladder.

Adjective modifier

• low: Small vessels, with thin masts, light rigging & sailcloth, & a lower freeboard need less wind & smaller waves.
• high: Loads of built in buoyancy and a high freeboard make this craft ideal for offshore work.
• minimum: In the case of earth banked slurry stores, the minimum freeboard has to be 750mm.
• enough: Other scholars have suggested that they are sun disks, as there was not enough freeboard for shields if the boat was paddled.
• more: These craft have more freeboard than racing hovercraft and are less likely to swamp.

Modifies a noun

space: A heat source is often provided by a counter-current flow of hot gases in the freeboard space above the granular bed.

Noun used with modifier

ice: The CryoSat program seeks to replace sporadic submarine missions by continual monitoring of the ice freeboard, from which thickness will be derived.