(n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
(n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
(n.) Hence, any weight.
(n.) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fructose bisphosphatase, a gluconeogenic enzyme, is high along the major portion of the proximal tubule but plummets along the final millimeter of S3.
(2) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
(3) That contrasts sharply with France, where the reading for business activity across the private sector plummeted to 42.7, its lowest level in nearly four years.
(4) Look at the plummeting birth rate in Italy, for instance.
(5) They didn’t want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of ‘British values’ culture.” Between 1979 and 2013, 1.6m council homes were sold, numbers of new homes plummeted and council housing went from an inbuilt part of the post-war settlement to something pushed to the social margins.
(6) Absolute Radio saw its audience plummet in the wake of its rebrand from Virgin Radio after it was bought by TIML Radio for £53.2m in 2008 .
(7) Plummeting oil prices only added to economic woes in a country with the world’s fourth-largest oil reserves.
(8) In terms of lifelong participation, if we build the momentum up to the age of 11 and then it all disappears it’s really hard to re-engage again later.” Olympic legacy failure: sporting numbers plummet amid confusion and blame Read more It is a view shared by David Ellis, the headteacher at York high school, another establishment where sport is thriving.
(9) The plummeting number of child and infant deaths in the Rio favela tells a wider story of a improving living standards in Brazil.
(10) The share of the vote of winning parties across Europe has plummeted.
(11) Bill Clinton says Hillary would be 'great president' despite 'this email thing' Read more With her poll numbers continuing to plummet, Clinton subjected herself to a lengthy interview on NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday.
(12) Since the eruption of Europe's debt crisis in Athens in late 2009, retail sales had plummeted by more than a third – 34% – the statistics service said.
(13) Over the past three months, US-Russia relations have plummeted farther and faster than at any time since the 2008 Russia-Georgia War .
(14) Vesna Vulovic's record fall Communist propaganda, say journalists Read more Trapped in the plane’s tail, Vulović plummeted to earth in sub-zero temperatures and landed on a steep, heavily wooded slope near a village.
(15) The plummeting cost of batteries is key in leading to the tipping point, which would kickstart a mass market for electric vehicles, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) analysts predict.
(16) • Russian market indexes plummeted and the central bank sold $10bn in an effort to stop a slide of the rouble.
(17) London also had a "crisis" in the seventies, when its population was plummeting.
(18) In the past few months the number of contract workers at Toyota has tumbled from 9,200 to just 3,000 amid plummeting sales at home, as well as every major export market.
(19) Labour accused SNP ministers of “sitting on their hands” and failing to tackle the impact of plummeting oil prices, which fell to $115 before the summer.
(20) Thousands of workers are being axed at car plants across the UK as plummetting sales force production cutbacks.
Rocket
Definition:
(n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
(n.) Damewort.
(n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.
(n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
(n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
(v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(2) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(3) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(4) In the same way, using the anti-trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase serum, rocket immunoelectrophoresis analyses were able to show that the inducible apoenzyme is not regulated by the fnr gene product and that molybdate does not seem necessary for the synthesis or stabilisation of this enzyme.
(5) In 13 patients complement C3d was determined by rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(6) "The Afghan people dared rockets and bombs, but they came out and voted and that's great."
(7) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(8) Within the last half hour Haaretz reported a home in the city was hit by a rocket and that one person is being treated for shock.
(9) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
(10) Barack Obama's policy of engagement with North Korea lies "in tatters" after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang's defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
(11) We usually started at 5am taking pictures of the Israeli air strikes and rockets launched by Palestinian militants.
(12) After a frantic period around "Black Friday" sales at the end of November, business quietened down but "took off like a rocket" from Boxing Day when Dixons took £100,000 a minute, chief executive Seb James said.
(13) Although missiles belonging to Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in Gaza do sometimes fall short, there was no visible evidence of debris from broken Palestinian rockets in the school.
(14) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(15) Serum volume in the blood dots was determined by calculation of dot area or by measuring albumin content in the eluted samples by means of rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(16) If the billions that have been thrown at this programme had been invested in providing teachers with decent, evidence-based training which is “on-the-job”, then standards would have sky-rocketed and we would be vying with the best education systems in the world, such as those in Finland and Singapore.
(17) The concentrations of plasma serine protease inhibitors in monocyte culture supernatants were measured by using rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(18) I can't say exactly what these are or when (they might be rolled out), but we are in a kind of race [with the Palestinian rocket firers] and we always need to update (the system) to increase the probability of a kill."
(19) Israel rejects these efforts as politically motivated, saying it acted in self-defence against Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza.
(20) The two systems tried were rocket immunoelectrophoresis, carried out after reduction of samples with dithiothreitol and using monomeric IgA as standard, and a radioimmunoassay utilising a double antibody precipitation method and polymeric IgA as standard.