Plume vs Flume - What's the difference?
plume | flume |
A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
* Milton
The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
* Dryden
A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
* Milton
An upward spray of water or mist.
(geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
(astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
To preen and arrange the feathers of.
* Washington Irving
To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
* Shakespeare
To form a plume.
To write; to pen.
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A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
As nouns the difference between plume and flume
is that plume is a feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one while flume is a ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.As a verb plume
is to preen and arrange the feathers of.plume
English
Noun
(en noun)- wings of many a coloured plume
- his high plume , that nodded o'er his head
- ambitious to win from me some plume
Derived terms
* plume grass * plume moth * plume nutmegVerb
(plum)- pluming her wings among the breezy bowers
- He plumes himself on his skill.
- (South)
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Dryden)
- Farewell the plumed troop.
- Smoke plumed from his pipe then slowly settled towards the floor.
- We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it.