dikine düş

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Definition von dikine düş im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch

plummet

A plumb bob or a plumb line

Violent or dramatic fall

A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water

I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -Shak.

a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line

A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing

{n} a leaden weight, leaden pencil, ball

To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly

See under Plumb, n

A leadpoint, also known as plummet, is a piece of lead alloy, sometimes contained in a holder (the precursor of a pencil), which could be used for drawing, annotation, and ruling Leadpoint began to be widely used in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Graphite, derived from carbon, was not generally used before the seventeenth century

Tear-dropped shaped weight of ground stone with a drilled hole or shallow groove at the small end Used as weights on casting nets for waterfowl and fish collecting in Middle and Late Archaic times

Hence, any weight

If an amount, rate, or price plummets, it decreases quickly by a large amount. In Tokyo share prices have plummeted for the sixth successive day The Prime Minister's popularity has plummeted to an all-time low in recent weeks The shares have plummeted from 130p to 2.25p in the past year. = plunge

the metal bob of a plumb line

hence a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line

drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"

A problematic polished stone artifact that has many conjectured intended uses In all likelihood a cerimonial object

If someone or something plummets, they fall very fast towards the ground, usually from a great height. The jet burst into flames and plummeted to the ground

{i} plumb, plumb line; lead weight used to determine perpendicularity

Silbentrennung

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