Word Meanings - PLUMMET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Shak. 2. A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n. 3. Hence, any weight. 4. A piece of lead formerly used by school

Additional info about word: PLUMMET

1. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Shak. 2. A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n. 3. Hence, any weight. 4. A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLUMMET)

• Standard
• Measure
• gauge
• criterion
• test
• rule
• exemplar
• banner
• flag
• type
• model
• scale
• plummet
• trutination

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLUMMET)

• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to PLUMMET)

• GAUGE
  To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure
• BANNERED
  Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.
• BANNEROL
  A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• GAUGEABLE
  Capable of being gauged.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• TRUTINATION
  The act of weighing. Sir T. Browne.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• BANNER
  fr. LL. baniera, banderia, fr. bandum banner, fr. OHG. bant band, strip of cloth; cf. bindan to bind, Goth. bandwa, bandwo, a sign. See 1. A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• GAUGER-SHIP
  The office of a gauger.
• MODELING
  The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form. Modeling plane, a small plane
• MODELIZE
  To model. B. Jonson.
• SCALENOHEDRON
  A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
• MEASURE
  The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic
• SCALER
  One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
• STANDARD-WING
  A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
• WATER MEASURE
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
• SAN JOSE SCALE
  A very destructive scale insect that infests the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. So called because first introduced into the United States at San José, California.
• ENSCALE
  To cover with scales.
• OVERMEASURE
  To measure or estimate too largely.