Plummet

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something that weighs down or oppresses; a burden.
  • intransitive verb. To fall straight down; plunge.
  • intransitive verb. To decline suddenly and steeply.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To weight with plummets, or as with plummets.
  • noun. A piece of lead or other metal attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, determining the vertical, etc.
  • noun. An instrument used by carpenters, masons, and others in adjusting erections to a vertical line; a plumb-rule.
  • noun. The pommel or knob on the hilt of a sword.
  • noun. A weight.
  • noun. A piece of lead formerly used by school-boys to rule paper for writing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
  • noun. A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
  • noun. Hence, any weight.
  • noun. A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
  • noun. a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
  • noun. A plumb bob or a plumb line.
  • noun. Hence, any weight.
  • noun. A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing
  • noun. a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
  • noun. Violent or dramatic fall
  • noun. decline; fall; drop
  • verb. To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. drop sharply
  • noun. the metal bob of a plumb line
  • Word Usage
    "Church invented nothing new of her own when she began to extol Mary; she did not plummet from the worship of the one God to the praise of man."
    cross-reference
    plumb  plumb line  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Bob  drop  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    summit  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    statusto  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Bob  T square  abate  ablate  bate  
    variant
    plumb  
    verb-form