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plom A cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point.
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Examples for "plummet"
Examples for "plummet"
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The news saw shares in the company plummet almost 25 percent lower.
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The Reserve Bank believes private housing construction could plummet as a result.
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As they age and protection becomes more widespread, infection rates should plummet.
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High inflation caused the native currency, the rial, to plummet in value.
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Many are informal workers who have seen their incomes plummet under quarantine.
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Take a string with a weight to act as a plumb bob.
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The plumb bob will hang at the angle reading for your latitude.
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It has a plumb bob, surface level, bubble level, steel protractor and ruler all in one.
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A protractor may be used in the same manner by sighting along the top and using a plumb bob to record the angle.
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He released the first meter of coated fiber, and using the ring at the end as a plumb bob, lowered it down through the grille.
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We recorded each area of spatter using a scale and a plumb line.
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Your rocket leads shot up, and the plumb line dropped one hundred feet.
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A carpenter appeared with a coiled plumb line and a chunk of chalk.
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The corpse no longer stirred; the chain was as motionless as a plumb line.
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Hang a plumb line from the ceiling to mark the border of each wall.
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The air hung steady and still as a plumb line dropped from the sky.
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He was letting down a plumb line, checking that the skyscraper was standing straight.
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True as a plumb line he shot up the ball-once ,twice ,andBerne fouled both-twostrikes.
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The crystal didn't hang like a plumb line.
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It is as the builder's line to the foundation; and as the plumb line to the column.
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This plumb line shoots straight up the perch through thin cracks, stemming corners, wide pods and huecos.
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Down on the street, cars and trucks crawled eastward through rain as vertical as a plumb line.
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He entered the data into a laptop computer, then went back to the ABFO ruler and plumb line.
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The dealer will find that out when you ask him for an easy-running broad-ax or a green-gage plumb line.
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Right as a plumb line.
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My right arm hung at my side, pulled as straight as a plumb line by the weight of the gun.