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21plumb — plumb1 [plʌm] v [T] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: plumb metal weight on a plumb line (13 21 centuries), from Old French plomb lead , from Latin plumbum] 1.) plumb the depths (of despair/misery/bad taste etc) to feel an unpleasant emotion in a very… …
22plumb — plumb1 [ plʌm ] verb transitive 1. ) FORMAL to manage to understand something difficult or mysterious: science s attempts to plumb the mysteries of the universe 2. ) to connect the water pipes in a room or building plumb the depths (of something) …
23plumb — 1. n., adv., adj., & v. n. a ball of lead or other heavy material, esp. one attached to the end of a line for finding the depth of water or determining the vertical on an upright surface. adv. 1 exactly (plumb in the centre). 2 vertically. 3 US… …
24plumb — {{11}}plumb (adj.) perpendicular, vertical, mid 15c., from PLUMB (Cf. plumb) (n.). The notion of exact measurement led to extended sense of completely, downright (1748), sometimes spelled plump or plunk. {{12}}plumb (n.) c.1300, lead hung on a… …
25plumb — I UK [plʌm] / US verb [transitive] Word forms plumb : present tense I/you/we/they plumb he/she/it plumbs present participle plumbing past tense plumbed past participle plumbed 1) formal to manage to understand something difficult or mysterious… …
26plumb — [[t]plʌm[/t]] n. 1) bui sur a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line Compare plumb line 2) true according to a plumb line; perpendicular 3)… …
27plumb — plumbable, adj. plumbless, adj. plumbness, n. /plum/, n. 1. a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Cf. plumb line. 2. out of or off plumb,… …
28plumb — 1 verb (T) 1 plumb the depths of despair/misery/bad taste etc to express a bad quality or feel an unpleasant emotion in a very extreme way: When his wife left him Matt plumbed the very depths of despair. 2 to succeed in understanding something… …
29plumb — plumb1 verb 1》 measure (the depth of a body of water). 2》 explore or experience fully or to extremes: she had plumbed the depths of depravity. 3》 test (an upright surface) to determine the vertical. noun a lead ball or other heavy object attached …
30plumb — 1. verb an attempt to plumb her psyche Syn: explore, probe, delve into, search, examine, investigate, fathom, penetrate, understand 2. adverb 1) informal it went plumb through the screen Syn: right, exactly …
