plumb

plumb is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, adjective, adverb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 16 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.
2. adjective. Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.
3. adverb. In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.
4. transitive verb. To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.
5. transitive verb. To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test.
6. transitive verb. To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.
7. transitive verb. To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.
8. noun. the metal bob of a plumb line

   Synonyms: plummet

9. verb. adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
10. verb. examine thoroughly and in great depth
11. verb. measure the depth of something
12. verb. weight with lead
13. adjective. exactly vertical

    "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"

14. adverb. completely; used as intensifiers

    "clean forgot the appointment"

    "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"

    Synonyms: clean, plum

15. adverb. exactly

    "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"

    Synonyms: plum

16. adverb. conforming to the direction of a plumb line

Synonyms

plummet, clean, plum

Common word forms

plumbs, plumbed, plumber, plumbing, plumbous, plumbable, plumbless, plumbness

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