Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that weighs down or oppresses; a burden.
- intransitive verb To fall straight down; plunge.
- intransitive verb To decline suddenly and steeply.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weight with plummets, or as with plummets.
- noun A piece of lead or other metal attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, determining the vertical, etc.
- noun An instrument used by carpenters, masons, and others in adjusting erections to a vertical line; a plumb-rule.
- noun The pommel or knob on the hilt of a sword.
- noun A weight.
- noun A piece of lead formerly used by school-boys to rule paper for writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
- noun A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under
Plumb , n. - noun Hence, any weight.
- noun A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
- noun a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A piece of
lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. - noun archaic A
plumb bob or a plumb line. - noun archaic Hence, any
weight . - noun archaic A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing
- noun a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
- noun Violent or dramatic
fall - noun figuratively
decline ;fall ;drop - verb intransitive To
drop swiftly, in a direct manner; tofall quickly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb drop sharply
- noun the metal bob of a plumb line
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Church invented nothing new of her own when she began to extol Mary; she did not plummet from the worship of the one God to the praise of man.
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"We don't normally use the word plummet but that is the operative word right now," said Mr. Ward.
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The other factor causing military morale to plummet is President Bush's preemptive war in Iraq, which has been followed by a post-war period of no planning that has placed our soldiers in harm's way without hope.
Sound Politics: Voter registration ruling was based on bogus evidence 2006
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Theoretically, all of the male reindeer - or at least the qualified ones - get together once a year to pull Santa's sleigh, and I assume they have training sessions to make sure that none of them suddenly plummet from the air in a burning hunk of fur and venison.
Just Further Consideration neorxnawang 2003
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[...] continued plummet is just so damn frustrating.
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Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls plummet ACMA
Do Not Call Violation Complaints Declining | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I was sitting at home on a Sunday reading the New York Times, and there on the front page was a headline that said "Reagan's popularity plummets to 59 per cent: 'So right there I said:" There is the fundamental difference between Canada and the United States - language: 'The word plummet obviously does not mean the same thing here as it does in the.
Relationships 1988
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If people stop buying stuff, suddenly sales tax collection plummet, which is exactly what happened.
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To capture their growth, you need to be willing to buy into them when their valuations plummet, which is usually when some kind of economic crisis strikes.
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+3.47% shares have epitomized the notion of plummet.
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