Plumbed vs Plumed - What's the difference?
plumbed | plumed |
(plumb)
truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line
(cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.
In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
* Milton
(informal) Squarely, directly; completely.
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.
To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
To attach to a water supply and drain.
To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of .
To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
(dated) To seal something with lead.
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.
Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
* 1854 , William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn
As a verb plumbed
is past tense of plumb.As an adjective plumed is
having or decorated with a plume or plumes.plumbed
English
Verb
(head)plumb
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (truly vertical) perpendicularAdverb
(-)- Plumb down he falls.
- It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.
- Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (construction) plummet, plumb bob (UK), plumb line (US)Derived terms
* plumb bob * off plumb * out of plumb * plumb line * plumb ruleVerb
(en verb)plumed
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Adjective
(-)- Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song,
No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain,
No plumed and plaided clans those hills among,
Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?