Plum vs. Plumb

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.

Plumnoun

A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.

Plumnoun

A desirable thing.

Plumnoun

(archaic) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.

Plumnoun

(dated) A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.

Plumnoun

A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.

Plumnoun

(pejorative) A fool, idiot.

Plumnoun

A testicle.

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunus

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.

Plumnoun

The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums

Plumnoun

The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits

Plumadjective

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

Plumadjective

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Plumadjective

Plumb

Plumadverb

Completely; utterly.

Plumverb

(mining) To plumb.

Plumnoun

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

Plumnoun

A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

Plumnoun

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Plumnoun

Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

Plumnoun

A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

Plumnoun

any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone

Plumnoun

any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit

Plumadverb

exactly;

Plumadverb

completely; used as intensifiers;

Plum

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus.

Plumbadjective

Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.

Plumbadjective

(cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.

Plumbadverb

In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.

Plumbadverb

(informal) Squarely, directly; completely.

Plumbnoun

A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.

Plumbnoun

(nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.

Plumbnoun

The perpendicular direction or position.

Plumbverb

To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.

Plumbverb

To attach to a water supply and drain.

Plumbverb

To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.

Plumbverb

To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.

Plumbverb

To accurately align vertically or horizontally.

Plumbverb

(dated) To seal something with lead.

Plumbverb

(intransitive) To work as a plumber.

Plumbverb

(rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.

Plumbverb

To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.

Plumbverb

(nautical) To position vertically above or below.

Plumbnoun

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.

Plumbadjective

Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.

Plumbadverb

In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.

Plumbverb

To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.

Plumbverb

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.

Plumbverb

To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.

Plumbverb

To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.

Plumbnoun

the metal bob of a plumb line

Plumbverb

measure the depth of something

Plumbverb

weight with lead

Plumbverb

examine thoroughly and in great depth

Plumbverb

adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical

Plumbadjective

exactly vertical;

Plumbadverb

completely; used as intensifiers;

Plumbadverb

conforming to the direction of a plumb line

Plumbadverb

exactly;

Plumbverb

measure (the depth of a body of water)

Plumbverb

(of water) be of a specified depth

Plumbverb

explore or experience fully or to extremes

Plumbverb

test (an upright surface) to determine the vertical

Plumbverb

install an appliance such as a bath, toilet, or washing machine and connect to water and drainage pipes

Plumbverb

install and connect water and drainage pipes in (a building or room)

Plumbnoun

a ball of lead or other heavy object attached to the end of a line for finding the depth of water or determining the vertical on an upright surface.

Plumbadverb

exactly

Plumbadverb

extremely or completely

Plumbadverb

vertically

Plumbadjective

vertical

Plumbadjective

(of the wicket) level; true.