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Plumb It Huntingdon - Your local plumbers merchant and bathroom showroom in Huntingdon. We welcome Trade and Retail Customers with our extensive merchant counter stock and impressive bathroom showroom Elements Bathroom Designs. The term plumb can be used as a verb to describe the activity of a plumber running water supply and drain pipes in a building, but the more important use of the term comes in the context of general construction or carpentry Here, the term plumb refers to a line or feature that is perfectly vertical.
- enPR: plŭm, IPA(key): /plʌm/
- Rhymes: -ʌm
- Homophone: plum
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French*plombe, from Latinplumba, plural of plumbum.
Adjective[edit]
plumb (comparativemore plumb, superlativemost plumb)
- Trulyvertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
- (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.
Synonyms[edit]
- (truly vertical):perpendicular
Translations[edit]
- Danish: lodret(da), vater
- Dutch: loodrecht(nl), in het lood
- Finnish: kohtisuora(fi)
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Adverb[edit]
plumb (not comparable)
- In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Plumb down he drops.
- (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.'.
Translations[edit]
- Dutch: loodrecht(nl), in het lood
| - Finnish: kohtisuoraan, kohtisuorasti, kohtisuorassa
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- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 正(zh)(zhèng)
| - Finnish: suoraan(fi)(squarely); täysin(fi), kokonaan(fi)(completely)
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Noun[edit]
plumb (pluralplumbs)
- A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a verticaldirection.
- (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
- The perpendicular direction or position.
Synonyms[edit]
- (construction):plummet, plumb bob (UK), plumb line (US)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
mass attached to a line to indicate vertical direction
nautical: mass attached to a line to indicate depth
Verb[edit]
plumb (third-person singular simple presentplumbs, present participleplumbing, simple past and past participleplumbed)
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- (transitive,figuratively) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
2011, Catherine Lanigan, The Texan:Delving to the core of her heart, his blue-green eyes plumbed her psyche, stripping it of all defenses, all resolve.
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
- (dated) To seal something with lead.
- (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
- (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
- (US,colloquial,figuratively,obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
- (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
Translations[edit]
Plumb Poezie
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
plumb (pluralplumbs)
- 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 […]
Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latinplumbum(“lead”).[2]
Noun[edit]
Plumb Line
plumbm (definite singularplumbi)
- lead (metal)
Declension[edit]
indefinite forms | definite forms |
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nominative | plumb | plumbi |
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accusative | plumb | plumbin |
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genitive (i/e/të/së) | plumbi | plumbit |
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dative | plumbi | plumbit |
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ablative | plumbi | plumbit |
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References[edit]
- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 109, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) , “plumb”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 336
Romanian[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Latinplumbum(“lead”).
Noun[edit]
plumbn (uncountable)
- lead(metal)
Plumbul este otrăvitor pentru oameni.- Lead is poisonous to humans.
- lead(chemical element)
Declension[edit]
singular |
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
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nominative/accusative | (un) plumb | plumbul |
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genitive/dative | (unui) plumb | plumbului |
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vocative | plumbule |
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Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
plumbm (pluralplumbi)
Plumb Bacovia Versuri
- bullet, projectile
Declension[edit]
singular | plural |
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
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nominative/accusative | (un) plumb | plumbul | (niște) plumbi | plumbii |
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genitive/dative | (unui) plumb | plumbului | (unor) plumbi | plumbilor |
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vocative | plumbule | plumbilor |
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Synonyms[edit]
Plumb Versuri
Noun[edit]
plumbn (pluralplumburi)
- (dated, chiefly Moldova)pencil
Declension[edit]
singular | plural |
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
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nominative/accusative | (un) plumb | plumbul | (niște) plumburi | plumburile |
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genitive/dative | (unui) plumb | plumbului | (unor) plumburi | plumburilor |
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vocative | plumbule | plumburilor |
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Synonyms[edit]
Plumb Bacovia
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