(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.
Sailor
Definition:
(n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Separation of the methyl esters was performed on columns of 10% sailor on Chromosorb.
(2) "I don't know why," he says, but it's something that didn't even happen at his lowest ebb: amid the bleakness of the early 70s, he somehow kept sporadically producing incredible songs: Til I Die, This Whole World, Sail On Sailor… There's always touring, however.
(3) The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
(4) This is a haven for sailors from near and far, and filled with locals whose faces you might recognise from Howards' Way.
(5) The releases, including that of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, coincided with the end of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, and came days after the release of 10 American sailors briefly detained by the Revolutionary Guard.
(6) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(7) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(8) A set of factors of ship's environment greatly affected the onset of diseases in sailors.
(9) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(10) The rejection of contentious themes resulted in a domestic drama in which Ellida's sexual rejection of her husband and her obsession with the lost sailor is steered towards an uplifting conclusion.
(11) Manouchehr Mottaki told the Associated Press that Britain must admit that its sailors entered Iranian waters for the standoff to be resolved.
(12) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(13) Beastly Brits Dom: This show should have been called “British people are awful”, which is what Owen says when they spot Kevin on what had to be the campest video-game launch in history (hello sailors!).
(14) Use of interrater agreement as a reliability index and two cutoff points for the partition of the sample resulted in the elimination of about one-third of the initial sampl and the formation of two subsamples-the "sick" (N equals 45) and "not sick" (N equals 73) sailors.
(15) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
(16) Iran dramatically raised the stakes in its tense diplomatic stand-off with Britain last night, broadcasting a propaganda video of the British sailors and marines seized last week, including a "confession" that they had entered Iranian waters.
(17) Last month General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, warned that manpower was increasingly seen as an "overhead" and that Britain was in danger of being left with hollowed-out armed forces boasting "exquisite" equipment but lacking the soldiers, sailors and airmen needed to operate it.
(18) In Terry's recording from 1969, one black sailor describes how, "when they caught a brother with an Afro, they just took him down to the brig and cut all his hair off and throw him in jail.
(19) Prince Felipe, who competed as a sailor at the 1992 Barcelona Games, repeated the mantra that Madrid's bid "made sense" because 80% of the venues were already built.
(20) The International Sailing Federation said just over 7% of sailors competing at a mid-August Olympic warm-up event in Guanabara Bay fell ill but the federation has not conducted a full count of how many athletes got sick in the two weeks following the competition, the rough incubation period for many of the pathogens in the water.