watertight doors on main deck to be removed, repaired, refitted and watertight tested.
large watertight chamber used for construction under water.
The iceberg damaged 5 of her 16 watertight compartments The Titanic began to sink.
If she could just establish the time the picture had been taken, Mick would have a watertight alibi.
Indeed, Asimov repeatedly knocked them down in his robot stories, showing time and again how these seemingly watertight rules could produce unintended consequences.
For cases like this the system will have a watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.
a watertight compartment
a watertight compartment, joint, seal
For watertight bulkheads, how do you check the watertightness?
A watertight cylindrical vessel, open at the top and fitted with a handle; a bucket.
If the civil judgment as the main part of the civil judgment writ is watertight, it must argue enough.
One end of the cable is permanently connected to the enclosed mercury switch and the entire assembly is encapsulated to form a completely watertight and impact resistant unit.
the uppermost watertight deck.
His defense was almost watertight and his offense was excellent.
a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos.
By tomorrow morning she had come up with an excuse, a watertight excuse, to cover it up.
They can be watertight, like that at the London Times, but increasingly they are porous, letting publishers charge for access to content while also admitting casual visitors and allowing sharing.
The system, of course, is not watertight.
Cannibals Boulahrouz's defense is watertight and has become a major focus of the game.
A temporary watertight enclosure that is pumped dry to expose the bottom of a body of water so that construction, as of piers, may be undertaken.
I'll have watertight windows fixed.
A watertight chamber attached to the side of a ship to facilitate repairs below the water line.
"The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods."
Analysis on the leakage caused by broken of watertight belt at expansion joint
Steamboats are often divided into watertight compartments by watertight partitions.
Yes, tests, in mine idea by the pressure, the worry, anxious and so on and so on with huge crowds of people have already been encircled watertight.
To make(a boat) watertight by packing seams with a waterproof material, such as oakum or pitch.
When he describes Kublai Khan’s fleet he talks about the pitch that was used to make ships’ hulls watertight. He used the word 'chunam’, which in Chinese and Mongol means nothing.
It's training, maintaining your watertight hatches, the crew knowing to keep watertight doors shut in certain conditions-somebody making sure they're keeping them shut.
The ship's hold is built in watertight compartments.
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