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We found 37 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word plumb:
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General dictionaries General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. plumb, plumb: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. plumb: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  3. plumb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. plumb: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. plumb: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Plumb, plumb-: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. plumb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. plumb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. plumb: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. Plumb, plumb: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. plumb (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. plumb: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. plumb: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  14. Plumb (album), Plumb (singer), Plumb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. plumb: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  16. Plumb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. plumb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. plumb: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. Plumb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. plumb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. plumb: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  22. plumb: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  23. plumb: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  24. plumb: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  25. Plumb, plumb: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  26. plumb: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plumb-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plumb: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plumb: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLUMB: Masonic Dictionary [home, info]
  2. plumb: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plumb-: Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Plumb: Woodworking Glossary [home, info]
  2. PLUMB: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  3. Plumb: Construction Glossary [home, info]
  4. Plumb: Glossary of Woodworking Terms [home, info]
  5. plumb: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

Quick definitions (plumb)

noun:  the metal bob of a plumb line
verb:  adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
verb:  examine thoroughly and in great depth
verb:  measure the depth of something
verb:  weight with lead
adjective:  exactly vertical ("The tower of Pisa is far out of plumb")
adverb:  exactly ("Fell plumb in the middle of the puddle")
adverb:  conforming to the direction of a plumb line
adverb:  completely; used as intensifiers ("I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out")
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #6205)

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