Plinth vs Plump - What's the difference?
plinth | plump |
A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall.
A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.
To grow ; to swell out.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
* Spectator
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .
* Fuller
To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
To give a plumper (kind of vote).
To give (a vote), as a plumper.
(used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
* (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)
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Fat.
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
As nouns the difference between plinth and plump
is that plinth is a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based while plump is (obsolete) a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.As a verb plump is
to grow ; to swell out.As an adjective plump is
having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.As an adverb plump is
directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.plinth
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
plump
English
Verb
(en verb)- Her cheeks have plumped .
- Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
- to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
- to plump a stone into water
- "A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out
Adjective
(en-adj)- The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
Synonyms
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* See alsoAdverb
Noun
(en noun)- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.