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plumb 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/pləm/,
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plumbed, past tense; plumbs, 3rd person singular present; plumbing, present participle; plumbed, past participle;
  1. Vertical
    • - ensure that the baseboard is straight and plumb
Verb
  1. Install and connect water and drainage pipes in (a building or room)
    • - the house could not be plumbed at all
  2. Install an appliance and connect it to water and drainage pipes

Noun
  1. A plumb bob

Adverb
  1. Exactly
    • - a bassoonist who sits plumb in the middle of the wind section
  2. To a very high degree; extremely
    • - they must both be plumb crazy
  3. Completely
    • - the transmission was plumb worn out
  4. Vertically
    • - drapery fell from their human forms plumb down

  1. plumb bob: the metal bob of a plumb line
  2. clean: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
  3. exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"
  4. measure the depth of something
  5. weight with lead
  6. exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
  7. Plumb is the first album by Christian singer Plumb. Plumb's first album was not only a huge success for herself, but also for Matt Bronleewe. This was Bronleewe's first CD producing. It features the hit songs, "Unforgivable", "Crazy", "Endure" & "Who Am I?".
  8. Tiffany Lee (née Arbuckle) (born March 9, 1975 , in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Contemporary Christian music artist who uses the stage name Plumb. She performs several different genres of music, including alternative rock, Christian alternative rock, pop, dance, and electronica.
  9. 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); A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water; To determine the depth, generally of a liquid ...
  10. Exactly perpendicular; vertical.
  11. A position or measurement that is truly and exactly vertical; 90° from a level surface.
  12. Precisely vertical. Also to test for, or to make vertical. Also to perform plumbing work.
  13. When the batsman is clearly LBW, even at full speed, he is said to be plumb in front.
  14. When a batsman is standing directly in the line of the stumps.
  15. means that a unit is vertically level.
  16. The term used to define a vertical element that is perfectly perpendicular to a level surface above or below.
  17. Straight up and down; vertically perpendicular as measured with a spirit level, or plumb bob.
  18. The vertical stem of the boat located at the bow.
  19. 1. adj. colloquial term describing an LBW or potential LBW in which the batsman is clearly hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket, and should obviously be given out. The fielders are appealing for LBW, and the batsman looks plumb!
  20. The state of being in the true vertical plane.
  21. perfectly vertical; the surface of the item you are
  22. Said of a member when it is in true vertical position as determined by a plumb bob or vertical level.
  23. this word has a few different meanings:
  24. A term used to describe something that is perfectly perpendicular to the earth relative to gravity. A plumb bob on the end of a string will give you a line that is plumb or straight up and down.
  25. On a vertical plane, or up and down, as in when someone says "level that wall" the correct carpentry term is plumb that wall.