lubber's line

Questions about lubber's line

What is another word for lubber's line?

It depends which lubber's line you mean. In the sense “a fixed line on a ship's compass indicating its heading”, the synonyms are lubber line, lubber's mark, lubber's point. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of lubber's line?

WordNet records no antonym for lubber's line. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for lubber's line come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of lubber's line

• Full entry for lubber's lineAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lubber's lineWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.