plumbとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.

形容詞

plumb (comparative more plumb, superlative most plumb)

1. Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
2. (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.

同意語

• (truly vertical): perpendicular

副詞

plumb (not comparable)

1. In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Plumb down he drops.

2. (informal) Squarely, directly; completely.

   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.

   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 143:

     'Are you sure of that, M. Hardman?' 'I'm plumb certain.'.

名詞

plumb (複数形 plumbs)

1. A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
2. (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
3. The perpendicular direction or position.

同意語

• (construction): plummet, plumb bob (UK), plumb line (US)

派生語

動詞

plumb (三人称単数 現在形 plumbs, 現在分詞 plumbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 plumbed)

1. To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
2. To attach to a water supply and drain.
3. (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
   • 2011, Catherine Lanigan, The Texan:

     Delving to the core of her heart, his blue-green eyes plumbed her psyche, stripping it of all defenses, all resolve.

4. To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
5. To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
6. (dated) To seal something with lead.
7. (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
8. (まれに) To fall or sink like a plummet.
9. (US, colloquial, figurative, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
10. (nautical) To position vertically above or below.

名詞

plumb (複数形 plumbs)

1. Obsolete form of plum (“the fruit”).
   • 1767, Select Essays on Husbandry

     Without attending to sub-divisions, all the pears are of one species, as well as all the apples, plumbs, peaches, cherries, lemons, citrons, oranges […]

派生語

• plumballophane
• plumbate
• plumbethyl
• plumbiodite