(v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
(v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.
(v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
(v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
(v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
(v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
(v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
(v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.
(v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
(2) On computer screens, the plume showed up as a patch of sky where levels of ash were above 200 micrograms per cubic metre.
(3) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
(4) Papillomavirus DNA has been reported recently in the vapor (smoke plume) derived from warts treated with carbon dioxide laser; this raises concerns for operator safety.
(5) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(6) Polar conductivity data substantiate the fact that small air ions of one polarity in the plume are elevated while those of opposite polarity are suppressed compared to background concentrations found in the rural environment.
(7) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(8) These "plume cells" are about 30-40 microns long and have an extremely irregular nucleus in their expanded terminus.
(9) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
(10) The fire also burned two vehicles and a US Forest Service garage and sent an enormous ashy plume over the mountains.
(11) Using satellite imagery, researchers could map the areas of coral covered by plumes of sediment released by the dredging process.
(12) The results allow the following changes in the germ counts in the plume of a wet cooling tower to be expected: 1.
(13) May 31, 2017 Images posted on social media showed a huge plume of smoke in the sky.
(14) A large plume of smoke rises from what is said to be Baiji oil refinery in Baiji, northern Iraq.
(15) It released a video of a vehicle driving away down a road, followed later by a plume of smoke rising in the distance.
(16) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
(17) This surplus was interpreted as due to dry deposition from the plume, and deposition velocities were estimated at 0.02-0.10 m s-1.
(18) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(19) We have calculated washout factors for locations where there are data on deposition, rainfall and air concentrations during the passage of the Chernobyl plume.
(20) were detected in one-third of the samples and low numbers of Campylobacter jejuni were found in the sewage and plume.