English-Thai Dictionary

plummet

N ลูก ดิ่ง  ลูกตุ้ม  luk-ding

 

plummet

VT ตกฮวบ ลง  fall plunge tok-hub-long

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLUMMET

n.[See Plumb. ] 1. A long piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
2. An instrument used by carpenters, masons, etc. in adjusting erections to a perpendicular line, and with a square, to determine a horizontal line. It consists of a piece of lead fastened to a line.
3. Any weight.
4. A piece of lead used by school boys to rule their paper for writing.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLUMMET

Plum "met, n. Etym: [OE. plommet, OF. plommet, fr. plom, plum, lead, F. plomb. See Plumb. ]

 

1. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Shak.

 

2. A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.

 

3. Hence, any weight.

 

4. A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

plummet

plum met |ˈpləmit ˈpləmət | ▶verb ( plummets, plummeting, plummeted ) [ no obj. ] fall or drop straight down at high speed: a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully. • decrease rapidly in value or amount: hardware sales plummeted. ▶noun 1 a steep and rapid fall or drop. 2 a plumb or plumb line. ORIGIN late Middle English (as a noun ): from Old French plommet ‘small sounding lead, ’ diminutive of plomb ‘lead. ’ The current verb sense dates from the 1930s.

 

Oxford Dictionary

plummet

plum |met |ˈplʌmɪt | ▶verb ( plummets, plummeting, plummeted ) [ no obj. ] fall or drop straight down at high speed: a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully. • decrease rapidly in value or amount: hardware sales plummeted. ▶noun 1 a steep and rapid fall or drop. 2 a plumb or plumb line. ORIGIN late Middle English (as a noun ): from Old French plommet ‘small sounding lead ’, diminutive of plomb ‘lead ’. The current verb sense dates from the 1930s.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

plummet

plummet verb 1 the plane plummeted to the ground: plunge, nosedive, dive, drop, fall, descend, hurtle. 2 share prices plummeted: fall steeply, plunge, tumble, drop rapidly, go down, slump; informal crash, nosedive.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

plummet

plummet verb 1 the plane plummeted to the ground: plunge, fall headlong, hurtle, nosedive, dive, drop, crash, descend rapidly. 2 share prices plummeted: fall steeply /sharply, plunge, tumble, drop /decrease rapidly, go down, sink, slump; informal crash, nosedive, take a nosedive.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

plummet

plum met /plʌ́mət /名詞 C (釣糸の )おもり, 下げ振り (糸 ); 測鉛 (線 ).動詞 自動詞 垂直に落ちる, 飛び込む (down ); 〈物価などが 〉 «…へと » 急に下落する «to » .