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What (who) is plumb - definition
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Plumb (disambiguation); Plumb (album)
plumb
(plumbs, plumbing, plumbed)
1.
If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it. (LITERARY)
She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...
= fathom
VERB: V n
2.
When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
VERB: V n
3.
If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of n
4.
If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.
Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths...
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of n
plumb
a.
Perpendicular (to the horizon), vertical, upright.
plumb
plumb1
¦ verb
1. measure (the depth of a body of water).
2. explore or experience fully or to extremes: she had plumbed the depths of depravity.
3. test (an upright surface) to determine the vertical.
¦ noun a lead ball or other heavy object attached to a line for finding the depth of water or determining the vertical on an upright surface.
¦ adverb
1. informal exactly: plumb in the centre.
2. N. Amer. extremely or completely: they must be plumb crazy.
3. archaic vertically.
¦ adjective
1. vertical.
2. Cricket (of the wicket) level; true.
Word History
The word plumb entered Middle English via Old French, from the Latin plumbum 'lead'. It shares this root with the words plumber, plummet, and aplomb. A plumber was originally a tradesman who worked with lead, which was formerly used for water pipes. In the Middle Ages plummet denoted a plumb or plumb line; its use as a verb to mean 'fall rapidly' is a 20th-century development. Aplomb entered English from the French phrase a plomb 'according to a plummet': it originally meant 'perpendicularity, steadiness'.
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plumb2
¦ verb (plumb something in) Brit. install a bath, washing machine, etc. and connect it to water and drainage pipes.
?install and connect pipes in (a building or room).
Origin
C19: back-form. from plumber.
Examples of use of plumb
1. Light drizzle stops play "Sorry to be pedantic (not really, it‘s what I do), but shouldn‘t Javed Omer have been out "plumb" as in plumb line.
2. He missed the ball completely and was caught plumb lbw.
3. He looked to have him plumb next ball but the umpire thought not.
4. Ordeal: Dean Plumb with his six–year–old son Harry Read more...
5. He was caught plumb in front by one that smoothly jagged in.