plumb

Definition of plumb in English English dictionary: truly vertical; : To work as a plumber; To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool; To seal something with lead; To attach to a water supply and drain; Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out; To position vertically above or below; To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of; To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end; To fall or sink like a plummet; To accurately align vertically or horizontally; To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound; A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water; A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob (UK); a plumb line (US); Squarely, directly; completely
Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.; In a vertical direction; a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something; {n} a leaden weight on a line, a plummet; {v} to found, to adjest; {a} perpendicular; To determine the depth of water with a plumb; to sound; weight with lead; to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob; The term used to define a vertical element that is perfectly perpendicular to a level surface above or below; Perfectly vertical or perpendicular; Exactly perpendicular; vertical; To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall; Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb; vertical; aligned with the force of gravity; {f} measure depth using a plumb; make perpendicular to; When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water. She learned to wire and plumb the house herself; plumbing; Perfectly vertical; See Plumb line, below; Vertical; conforming to the direction of a plumb line; To make something vertical or perpendicular accurately; To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc; Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front on his wicket and should be given out; exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"; adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical examine thoroughly and in great depth measure the depth of something weight with lead exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"; completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"; perpendicularly; vertically; utterly, quite, completely, totally (Slang); If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it. She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions = fathom; Meaning absolutely vertical or square An accurate measurement taken using a weight and string or a level; Perfectly vertical, perpendicular with the floor; The verticality of brickwork; {i} plummet, plumb line; lead weight used to determine perpendicularity; Exactly perpendicular or vertical; at right angles tot he horizon or floor; To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe; In a plumb direction; perpendicularly; To work as a plumber; adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical; to sound; to fathom; to test; Exactly vertical and perpendicular; This is a term indicating that something is vertical Typically a level is used to determine when something is plumb; examine thoroughly and in great depth; If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree. They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair; To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing; Plumb is the opposite of level Holding a level perpendicular to the ground is plumb Walls are said to be plumb and floor systems are referred to as level; A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc; {s} vertical, perpendicular; To use a plumb bob to test for vertical alignment; the metal bob of a plumb line; measure the depth of something; exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"; That which is vertically perpendicular as measured with a spirit level or plumb bob; The exact karat amount legally required E g 14K plumb would be exactly 58 33 Wt% Au; To prepare the pumbing lines for a faucet or fixture Also a reference to true vertical; If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad. Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths
plumb bob: A metal weight attached to the end of a plumb line
plumb bobs: plural form of plumb bob
plumb line: A cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line
plumb line: Any vertical reference line
plumb-: A form of plumbo- used before a vowel
plumb-bob: Alternative spelling of plumb bob
plumb bob: A shaped metal weight that is suspended from the lower end of a line to determine the vertical
plumb bob: a weight hanging on a cord used to provide a true vertical reference
plumb bob: A metal weight attached to a string Used to determine plumb
plumb bob: (illustrated)
plumb bob: A lead weight attached to a string It is the tool used in determining plumb
plumb bob: Holding the putter in a vertical position and using it as a sight to determine the Line of Putt
plumb bob: A pointed metal weight with a string used to determine vertical alignment
plumb bob: A weight on a string or thread, so that it hangs straight down, i e perpendicular to the earth's surface and directly in line with the centre of the Earth
plumb bob: a pointed weight attached to a line for testing
plumb bob: a method of reading putts where the putter is hung from the fingers (like a surveyor's plumb line) in front of one's visual field to create a vertical reference Example: "Plumb bobbing is a difficult skill to acquire and is preferred by many players due to the 'feel' that it provides "
plumb bob: A plumb bob is carefully machined, pointed weight that is suspended with a string It is used to indicate a (local) vertical line through the point of suspension
plumb bob: A usually conical metal weight attached to the end of a plumb line. Also called plummet
plumb bob: the metal bob of a plumb line
plumb crazy: totally nuts, completely insane
plumb for a candidate: vote for an agreed-upon candidate
plumb in the middle: located exactly in the center
plumb level: a carpenter's level with a plumb line at right angles to it
plumb line: A plumb line is a piece of string with a weight attached to the end that is used to check that something such as a wall is vertical or that it slopes at the correct angle. a piece of string with a small heavy object tied to one end, used for measuring the depth of water, or for checking whether something such as a wall is built exactly upright
plumb line: a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
plumb line: a true vertical reference line established using a plumb bob
plumb line: A tool used to drop a perpendicular line on a wall to aid in hanging a strip of wallcovering vertically
plumb line: A vertical guideline (sometimes called a level line) necessary when hanging wallpaper; a length of string is usually coated with chalk to which a weight is attached; when the string is snapped, the chalk leaves a straight line on the wall A level can also be used to achieve the same results by tracing with a pencil on the correctly positioned level
plumb line: A string or cord with a weight at one end that is used to determine a vertical line
plumb line: A long string weighted at one end with a metal plumb bob, used to determine true vertical lines
plumb rule: a plumb line attached to a narrow board
plumb rule: A narrow strip of wood with a plumb line hanging from it, used to test verticality
plumb-line: weight that determines a perpendicular line
plumbing: The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building
plumbing: The trade or occupation of a plumber
plumbing: A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments
out of plumb: not perpendicular, not at a right angle; not true, false
plumbed: (of water depth) measured by a line and plumb
plumbed: past of plumb
plumbing: in a building
plumbing: The plumbing in a building consists of the water and drainage pipes, baths, and toilets in it. The electrics and the plumbing were sound
plumbing: {i} work of a plumber; system of pipes and hoses (for water supply, etc.)
plumbing: the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage
plumbing: the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building)
plumbing: System of pipes for the conveyance of water or gas in a building Also, the work performed to install such a system
plumbing: The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc
plumbing: measuring the depths of the oceans
plumbing: utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage
plumbing: A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system
plumbing: Plumbing is the work of connecting and repairing things such as water and drainage pipes, baths, and toilets. She learned the rudiments of brick-laying, wiring and plumbing. System of pipes and fixtures installed in a building for the distribution of potable water and the removal of waterborne wastes. Plumbing is usually distinguished from water and sewage systems, which serve a group of buildings or a city. Improvement in plumbing systems was very slow, with virtually no progress made from the time of the Roman system of aqueducts and lead pipes until the 19th century. Eventually the development of separate, underground water and sewage systems eliminated open sewage ditches. Present-day water pipes are usually made of steel, copper, brass, plastic, or other nontoxic material. A building's waste-disposal system has two parts: the drainage system and the venting system. The drainage portion comprises pipes leading from various fixture drains to the central main, which is connected to the sewage system. The venting system consists of pipes leading from an air inlet (usually on the roof) to various points within the drainage system; by providing the circulation of air within the system, it protects the trap seals of fixtures from siphonage and back pressure. See also sewage system, water pollution, water-supply system
plumbing: The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc
plumbing: [UNIX] n Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell script; this is much less effort than writing C every time, and the capability is considered one of UNIX's major winning features A few other OSs such as IBM's VM/CMS support similar facilities Esp used in the construction `hairy plumbing' (see {hairy}) "You can kluge together a basic spell-checker out of `sort(1)', `comm(1)', and `tr(1)' with a little plumbing " See also {tee}
plumbing: The work or business of installing pipes, fixtures, and other apparatus for bringing in the water supply and removing liquid and water-borne wastes This term is used also to denote the installed fixtures and piping of a building
plumbs: plural of , plumb
plumbs: third-person singular of plumb
say something plumb: speak honestly, speak frankly