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Significados de plumb line en inglés

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Weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line.

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        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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              Uso de plumb line en inglés
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              We recorded each area of spatter using a scale and a plumb line.
              Deadly Décisions
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              Your rocket leads shot up, and the plumb line dropped one hundred feet.
              The Sky Trap
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              A carpenter appeared with a coiled plumb line and a chunk of chalk.
              Hood
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              The corpse no longer stirred; the chain was as motionless as a plumb line.
              The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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              Hang a plumb line from the ceiling to mark the border of each wall.
              Rock and Ice Magazine
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              The air hung steady and still as a plumb line dropped from the sky.
              The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings
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              He was letting down a plumb line, checking that the skyscraper was standing straight.
              New york: the novel
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              True as a plumb line he shot up the ball-once ,twice ,andBerne fouled both-twostrikes.
              The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories
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              The crystal didn't hang like a plumb line.
              Turn coat
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              It is as the builder's line to the foundation; and as the plumb line to the column.
              Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary / Col...
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              This plumb line shoots straight up the perch through thin cracks, stemming corners, wide pods and huecos.
              Climbing Magazine
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              Down on the street, cars and trucks crawled eastward through rain as vertical as a plumb line.
              In the night room: a novel
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              He entered the data into a laptop computer, then went back to the ABFO ruler and plumb line.
              Deadly Décisions
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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.
              Remarks
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              Right as a plumb line.
              The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome ...
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              My right arm hung at my side, pulled as straight as a plumb line by the weight of the gun.
              Fear nothing
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