plumb 的 5 个定义
- a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line.Compare plumb line.
Also plum .
- true according to a plumb line perpendicular.
- Informal. downright or absolute.
Also plum .
- in a perpendicular or vertical direction.
- exactly, precisely, or directly.
- Informal. completely or absolutely: She was plumb mad. You're plumb right.
- to test or adjust by a plumb line.
- to make vertical.
- Shipbuilding. horn.
- (9)
- to work as a plumber.
plumb 近义词
vertical
plumb 的近义词 7 个
plumb 的反义词 5 个
probe, go into
更多plumb例句
- Hold the weight plumb under your shoulder and next to your hip on your standing-leg side.
- The show’s science fiction background and action-packed battles keep each episode engaging, even during the slower-paced moments when it plumbs the depth of each character’s mental state.
- The city had likewise been disappointed by its own forensic experts, the outside digital-audio specialists who neither police nor prosecutors had sought out to plumb the Gaines tape.
- It’s an at-times challenging work that plumbs her maternal relationship to its deepest depths.
- Miller says he sympathizes with what I’m saying about the power of art coming from the connection with a human artist, plumbing their emotions and consciousness.
- He has no redeeming or (even complicating) qualities—no depths to plumb, no angles to survey, no gray areas to explore.
- Nearly 65 years after the fact, it's amazing how much of what we think we know about Britain's "finest" hour is just plumb wrong.
- In the “just plumb crazy” class, I put the business of his chaining his mug to the radiator to prevent its being stolen.
- She believes her illness has bestowed on her a single-mindedness that causes her to plumb the same waters again and again.
- Her companions stuck to the side of the road, but Suu Kyi walked into the middle, plumb in the line of fire.
- Then, grandpaw, he turns round to the baby again, plumb took up with them four new nippers.
- He put his hand to his belt, screwed up his mug, and said he felt plumb et up inside.
- I just sit there, knocked plumb silly, almost, and looked at a big rose in the carpet.
- An' I'm here t' declare that it's plumb foolish t' mix things with that layout till we can see t' shoot tolerable straight.
- On either side of this isolated bar of sandstone a plumb-line might have been dropped straight to the level of the river.