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plumb

/pluhm/US // plʌm //UK // (plʌm) //

铅垂,铅直,剽窃,铅直的

Related Words

penetrate渗透,穿透,渗入,识破explore探索,探讨,探寻,探究unravel解开,瓦解,破解,解读fathom捉摸不透,捉捉摸摸,摸索,捉摸delve深入研究,探讨,深入了解,深究upright直立的,直立,直立式的,正直的straight直,直接,笔直的,直的sheer峭壁,纯粹的,峭度perpendicular垂直,平行,垂直于,垂直的erect竖立,竖直,竖起来,架设sound声音,声响,音响,音效search搜索,搜寻,搜查,检索gauge衡量标准,仪表,计量器,轨距measure措施,衡量,计量,衡量标准straight up直截了当,直达,直截了当地,直截了当的up and down上下,上下左右,上上下下,上下移动get to the bottom of查清,查清真相,查清事实,摸清

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also plum .

    • : true according to a plumb line perpendicular.
    • : Informal. downright or absolute.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1

    Also plum .

    • : in a perpendicular or vertical direction.
    • : exactly, precisely, or directly.
    • : Informal. completely or absolutely: She was plumb mad. You're plumb right.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to test or adjust by a plumb line.
    • : to make vertical.
    • : Shipbuilding. horn.
    • : to sound with or as with a plumb line.
    • : to measure by sounding.
    • : to examine closely in order to discover or understand: to plumb someone's thoughts.
    • : to seal with lead.
    • : to weight with lead.
    • : to provide with plumbing.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to work as a plumber.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.vertical
Synonyms
erect竖立,竖直,竖起来,架设perpendicular垂直,平行,垂直于,垂直的sheer峭壁,纯粹的,峭度straight直,直接,笔直的,直的upright直立的,直立,直立式的,正直的straight up直截了当,直达,直截了当地,直截了当的up and down上下,上下左右,上上下下,上下移动
verbprobe, go into
Synonyms
delve深入研究,探讨,深入了解,深究explore探索,探讨,探寻,探究fathom捉摸不透,捉捉摸摸,摸索,捉摸penetrate渗透,穿透,渗入,识破unravel解开,瓦解,破解,解读gauge衡量标准,仪表,计量器,轨距measure措施,衡量,计量,衡量标准search搜索,搜寻,搜查,检索sound声音,声响,音响,音效get to the bottom of查清,查清真相,查清事实,摸清take soundings测井,测绘,探测,测深

Examples

  • 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.

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