What's the difference between line and plumb?

Line


Definition:

  • (n.) Flax; linen.
  • (n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.
  • (v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
  • (v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
  • (v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
  • (v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
  • (n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
  • (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
  • (n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
  • (n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
  • (n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
  • (n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
  • (n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
  • (n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
  • (n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
  • (n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
  • (n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
  • (n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
  • (n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
  • (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
  • (n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
  • (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
  • (n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
  • (n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
  • (n.) A measuring line or cord.
  • (n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
  • (n.) Instruction; doctrine.
  • (n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
  • (n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
  • (n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
  • (n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
  • (n.) A trench or rampart.
  • (n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
  • (n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
  • (n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
  • (n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • (n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
  • (n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
  • (n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
  • (n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
  • (v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
  • (v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • (v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
  • (v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
  • (2) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
  • (3) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
  • (4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (6) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
  • (7) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (8) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
  • (9) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (10) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
  • (11) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
  • (12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (13) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
  • (14) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
  • (15) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
  • (16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (17) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
  • (18) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
  • (19) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
  • (20) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.

Plumb


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (a.) Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.
  • (adv.) In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.
  • (v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.
  • (v. t.) To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was born into a Britain where the majority of the population didn't have a telephone, the wireless or indoor plumbing.
  • (2) Samples from plumbing fixtures in a hospital yielded legionellae which were "super"-chlorine resistant when assayed under natural conditions.
  • (3) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
  • (4) Plumbing systems consisting of copper showed an inhibitory effect on Legionella during the first five years, whereas no effect could be detected in older systems (Fig.
  • (5) Soon, reformers known as “sanitarians” focused their attention on replacing the haphazard and unsanitary plumbing arrangements in homes and workplaces with technologically advanced public sewer systems.
  • (6) A pump will break or the plumbing will be stopped up.
  • (7) But love him or hate him, by delivering the parcels and fixing the plumbing, WVM kept the economy ticking over.
  • (8) Sixteen control samples taken from the connecting plumbing system at distant locations, after periods of stagnation which result in DU bacterial contamination, were negative.
  • (9) Twitter and Facebook are plumbed in to compare your scores to friends, and there is also an untimed mode for practice.
  • (10) Since at least 10% of our household plumbing systems are made up of lead pipes and 75%, of galvanized iron pipes that contain lead, the heavy metals are acquired from the water used to prepare the formula.
  • (11) Acute hepatitis E was associated with recent contact with a family member or acquaintance with jaundice and the presence of indoor plumbing.
  • (12) Later, the group raised €1,000 to have it plumbed into the caravan and a septic tank dug, so the toilet works.
  • (13) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
  • (14) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
  • (15) In the seventh a bodyshot and an uppercut clearly had the 36-year-old in trouble before a right hook landed plumb on Cunningham's chin and the American had no chance of beating the count.
  • (16) Because back home, he says, he couldn’t put food on the table; he’d get only two plumbing jobs a month.
  • (17) Because plumbing leaks at the seams, and houses leak at the doorframes, and lie-lows lose air through their valves.
  • (18) Ultimately, when the next recession strikes, central banks in advanced economies will have no choice but to plumb the zero lower bound once again while they choose among four unappealing options.
  • (19) Bin Hammam said a key part of his pitch would be a drive to build bridges with the club game after relations between Fifa and the most powerful clubs recently plumbed new depths following a series of clashes over the international calendar and compensation.
  • (20) Inspection of the pool revealed significant plumbing defects which had allowed ingress of sewage from the main sewer into the circulating pool water.