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How to pronounce “plumb”
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Pronunciation guide for plumb
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of plumb with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff 19 minutes
Predicated on plumb level, square and centered.
- Definition summary
- A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce plumb
Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff 19 minutes
Predicated on plumb level, square and centered.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “plumb”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
- (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
- The perpendicular direction or position.
- [Adjective]
- Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
- (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
- [Adverb]
- In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
- (informal) Squarely, directly; deeply, completely.
- [Verb]
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of.
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
- (dated) To seal something with lead.
- (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
- (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
- (US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
- (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
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