plumb
US: /ˈpɫəm/
UK: /plˈʌm/
UK: /plˈʌm/
English Vietnamese dictionary
plumb /plʌm/
- danh từ
- quả dọi
- dây dọi; dây dò nước
- thế thẳng đứng, độ ngay (của tường...)
- out of plumb: không thẳng đứng, không ngay, xiên
- tính từ
- thẳng đứng, ngay
- a plumb wall: bức tường thẳng đứng
- (nghĩa bóng) hoàn toàn, đích thật
- plumb nonsense: điều hoàn toàn vô lý
- thẳng đứng, ngay
- phó từ
- thẳng đứng, ngay
- (nghĩa bóng) đúng, ngay
- plumb in the centre: ngay ở giữa, đúng ở giữa
- (từ lóng) hoàn toàn, thật đúng là
- plumb crazy: hoàn toàn điên rồ, thật đúng là điên
- ngoại động từ
- dò độ sâu (biển, sông...) bằng dây dò; đo (độ sâu) bằng dây dò
- (nghĩa bóng) dò, thăm dò, dò xét
- to plumb a mystery: dò xét một điều bí ẩn
- làm thẳng đứng (bức tường...)
- nội động từ
- làm nghề hàn chì
Advanced English dictionary
verb, adverb
+ verb [VN] (literary) to try to understand or succeed in understanding sth mysterious
Synonym: FATHOM
She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche. + He had clearly plumbed the general sense of the message.
Idioms: plumb the depths of sth to be or to experience an extreme example of sth unpleasant: His latest novel plumbs the depths of horror and violence. + It was at that stage in her life when she plumbed the depths of despair. + The team's poor performances plumbed new depths last night when they lost 10-2.
Phrasal Verbs: plumb sth<->in (especially BrE) to connect a WASHING MACHINE, toilet, etc. to the water supply in a building
+ adverb
1 (used before prepositions) exactly: He was standing plumb in the middle of the road.
2 (old-fashioned, AmE, informal) completely: He's plumb crazy.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 weight, (plumb-)bob, plummet, lead, sinker:
The plumb holds the string taut and exactly vertical.
adj.
2 vertical, perpendicular, straight up and down:
Make sure the jamb is plumb before hanging the door.
adv.
3 vertically, perpendicularly, straight up and down:
The cord doesn't hang plumb because the shelf is in the way.
4 exactly, precisely, dead, right, accurately, Colloq slap, Brit bang, spot:
The navigator checked our position and we were plumb on course.
v.
5 sound, fathom, measure, probe, explore, measure, gauge, delve, penetrate:
The bathyscaphe has plumbed the deeps of the Indian Ocean. I plumb the depths of depression thinking of starving people everywhere.
Concise English dictionary
plumbs|plumbed|plumbingplʌm
noun
+the metal bob of a plumb line
verb
+measure the depth of something
+weight with lead
+examine thoroughly and in great depth
+adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
adj.
+exactly vertical
adv.
+completely; used as intensifiers
+conforming to the direction of a plumb line
+exactly
