(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.
Truly
Definition:
(adv.) In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
(adv.) Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
(adv.) Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.
(adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
(adv.) In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.
Example Sentences:
(1) While we cannot administer aid indiscriminately, our ability to provide swift, effective humanitarian aid is one way in which we can demonstrate that we are truly relevant in the Third World.
(2) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(3) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(4) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
(5) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
(6) However, a truly aberrant intrathoracic thyroid represents a rare and anatomically different entity that requires appropriate modifications in approach and surgical technique.
(7) "We truly are living through a tale of two Britains; while those at the top of the tree may be benefiting from the green shoots of economic recovery, life on the ground for the poorest is getting tougher."
(8) It is clear that a truly spectacular increase in our understanding of the biliary circulation has occurred during the past 5 years.
(9) However, clinicians may be concerned that patient refusal of treatment is not truly informed.
(10) KR: She was truly in a conundrum because without the app, she felt too worthless to try and fix it by installing an update.
(11) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(12) She continued: "The scale of his suffering was truly horrific.
(13) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
(14) Eric King, deputy director of PI, said: "More than a year after Snowden, the British government continues to dodge the question of just how integrated the operations of GCHQ and NSA truly are.
(15) There are questions over whether the testing authorities commissioned by motor manufacturers are truly independent.
(16) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
(17) These three antiviral drugs, however, are not truly selective in their action and interfere with normal cellular functions as well as virus synthesis.
(18) The computer program has teaching and scoring capabilities, making it a truly interactive system.
(19) Daniel Levy, the chairman, was, according to sources, incandescent and there is the firm belief at Tottenham that Chelsea did not truly want Willian.
(20) This was done recognizing that no deformity, like no normal human face, is truly symmetrical.