1. plumb - Noun
2. plumb - Adjective
3. plumb - Verb
4. plumb - Adverb
6. plumb - Adjective Satellite
7. Plumb - Proper 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.
Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.
In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.
To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.
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.
To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.
To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. Ken Kesey
Hence, as the line of sight to the upper part is the longer, it makes that part look as if it were leaning back. But when the members are inclined to the front, as described above, they will seem the beholder to be plumb and perpendicular. Vitruvius
It's plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated. Orson Scott Card
I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it. Jack Valenti
The straightening board was created because of warped wood, and the plumb line came into being because of things that are not straight. Rulers are established and ritual and rightness are illuminated because the nature is evil. Xun Zi
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities. Peter Zumthor