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plummet

noun
/ˈplʌmɪt/UK/ˈplʌmət/US/plʊmɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English plommet (“ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (“lead, sounding lead”), from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The verb is first recorded in 1626, originally meaning “to fathom, take soundings", from the noun.

  1. derived from plumbum — “lead”
  2. derived from plommet
  3. inherited from plommet — “ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”

Definitions

  1. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water

    A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.

    • I'le ſeeke him deeper than ere plummet ſounded, / And with him there lye mudded.
    • Iudgement also will I lay to the line, and righteousnesse to the plummet: and the haile shall sweepe away the refuge of lyes, and the waters shall ouerflow the hiding place.
    • Each long black hair upon his head hung down as straight as any plummet line; […]

  2. Hence, any weight.

    • His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet.

  3. A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to…

    A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A violent or dramatic fall.

    2. A decline

      A decline; a fall; a drop.

      • Yet another seriously under-par performance is unlikely to provide any real answers to their remarkable plummet in form - but it proves they can at least churn out a much-needed result.

    3. To drop swiftly, in a direct manner

      To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.

      • After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.
      • Some speculated Twitter’s stock would plummet, while another said the company would not have to be owned by “a moron,” using an expletive to refer to Mr. Musk.

The neighborhood

  • antonymascendantonym(s) of “to drop swiftly”
  • antonymriseantonym(s) of “to drop swiftly”
  • antonymrocketantonym(s) of “to drop swiftly”
  • antonymsoarantonym(s) of “to drop swiftly”
  • antonymskyrocketantonym(s) of “to drop swiftly”

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at plummet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at plummet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at plummet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA