Weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line.
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 "perpendicular"
Examples for "perpendicular"
1You use the perpendicular pronoun too much and in the wrong places.
2The typical mound is one which covers the perpendicular burrow in Fig.
3The wall tapers to the top and is perpendicular towards the reservoir.
4The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
5The upper precipice consisted of cliffs about 140 feet in perpendicular height.
1We recorded each area of spatter using a scale and a plumb line.
2Your rocket leads shot up, and the plumb line dropped one hundred feet.
3A carpenter appeared with a coiled plumb line and a chunk of chalk.
4The corpse no longer stirred; the chain was as motionless as a plumb line.
5Hang a plumb line from the ceiling to mark the border of each wall.
6The air hung steady and still as a plumb line dropped from the sky.
7He was letting down a plumb line, checking that the skyscraper was standing straight.
8True as a plumb line he shot up the ball-once ,twice ,andBerne fouled both-twostrikes.
9The crystal didn't hang like a plumb line.
10It is as the builder's line to the foundation; and as the plumb line to the column.
11This plumb line shoots straight up the perch through thin cracks, stemming corners, wide pods and huecos.
12Down on the street, cars and trucks crawled eastward through rain as vertical as a plumb line.
13He entered the data into a laptop computer, then went back to the ABFO ruler and plumb line.
14The dealer will find that out when you ask him for an easy-running broad-ax or a green-gage plumb line.
16My right arm hung at my side, pulled as straight as a plumb line by the weight of the gun.
Translations for plumb line