plumb

• enPR: plŭm, IPA^(key): /plʌm/

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• Rhymes: -ʌm
• Homophone: plum

From Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

plumb (comparative more plumb, superlative most plumb)

1. Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
2. (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.

• (truly vertical): perpendicular

plumb (not comparable)

1. In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Plumb down he drops.

2. (informal) Squarely, directly; completely.

   It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.

   Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.

   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 143:

     'Are you sure of that, M. Hardman?' 'I'm plumb certain.'.

plumb (plural plumbs)

1. A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
2. (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
3. The perpendicular direction or position.

• (construction): plummet, plumb bob (UK), plumb line (US)

plumb (third-person singular simple present plumbs, present participle plumbing, simple past and past participle plumbed)

1. To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
2. To attach to a water supply and drain.
3. To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
4. To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
5. To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
6. (dated) To seal something with lead.
7. (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
8. (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
9. (US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
10. (nautical) To position vertically above or below.

plumb (plural plumbs)

1. Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”).
   • 1767, Select Essays on Husbandry

     Without attending to sub-divisions, all the pears are of one species, as well as all the apples, plumbs, peaches, cherries, lemons, citrons, oranges […]

• (Gheg) plum [1]

From Latin plumbum (“lead”).

plumb m

1. lead (metal)
2. bullet

From Latin plumbum (“lead”).

plumb n (uncountable)

1. lead (metal)

   Plumbul este otrăvitor pentru oameni.

   Lead is poisonous to humans.

2. lead (chemical element)

• plumburiu
• plumbui
• plumbos

• plumbar

plumb m (plural plumbi)

1. bullet, projectile

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plumb n (plural plumburi)

1. (dated, chiefly Moldavia) pencil

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