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▸ noun: (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
▸ noun: The perpendicular direction or position.
▸ adjective: Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
▸ adjective: (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
▸ adverb: In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
▸ adverb: (informal) Squarely, directly; deeply, completely.
▸ verb: To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
▸ verb: To attach to a water supply and drain.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
▸ verb: To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
▸ verb: To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
▸ verb: (dated) To seal something with lead.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
▸ verb: (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
▸ verb: (US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
▸ verb: (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”). [The fruit and its tree.]
Similar:
vertical,
plumb bob,
perpendicular,
plummet,
clean,
plum,
downright,
upright,
straight as a die,
rectilinear,
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Types:
yellow plum,
red plum,
black plum,
green plum,
Japanese plum,
Europeplum,
Italiplum,
prune plum,
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