English to English adjective
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Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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exactly vertical | | Example: the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb
source: wordnet30 adverb
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completely; used as intensifiers | | Example: clean forgot the appointment I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out
source: wordnet30
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conforming to the direction of a plumb line | | source: wordnet30
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exactly | | Example: fell plumb in the middle of the puddle
source: wordnet30
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In a plumb direction; perpendicularly. | | source: webster1913 noun
7 |
the metal bob of a plumb line | | source: wordnet30
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A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below. | | source: webster1913 verb
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measure the depth of something | | source: wordnet30
10 |
weight with lead | | source: wordnet30
11 |
examine thoroughly and in great depth | | source: wordnet30
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adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | | source: wordnet30
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To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall. | | source: webster1913
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