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Look up: Plumb

  1. plumb
    get to the root of 
    Found on http://www.graduateshotline.com/list.htm

  2. Plumb
    Plumb is a township in Wabaunsee County Kansas, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. plumb
    [adj] - exactly vertical 2. [adv] - conforming to the direction of a plumb line 3. [adv] - (informal) exactly 4. [v] - weight with lead 5. [v] - measure the depth of something 6. [v] - examine thoroughly and in great depth 7. [v] - adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Plumb
    Deviation from vertical in two points on a column.
    Found on http://www.corusconstruction.com/en/desi

  5. plumb
    a shaft located near the maximum section of a dam in order to make observations of the movements of the dam with respect to the base Category: Building industry • the direction of the pull exerted by the earth at any place 99999INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951 Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Plumb
    Exactly perpendicular; vertical.
    Found on http://www.rookinspections.com/glossary/

  7. Plumb
    Plumb (plŭm) noun [ French plomb , Latin plumbum lead, a leaden ball or bullet; confer Greek mo`lybos , mo`libos , mo`lybdos . Confer Plummet , Plunge .] 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 , be ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/110

  8. Plumb
    Plumb adjective Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/110

  9. Plumb
    Plumb adverb In a plumb direction; perpendicularly. ' Plumb down he falls.' Milton.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/110

  10. Plumb
    Plumb transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Plumbed (plŭmd); present participle & verbal noun Plumbing (plŭm'ĭng).] 1. To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall. 2. To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to exa ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/110

  11. plumb
    adjective exactly vertical; `the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. plumb
    adverb conforming to the direction of a plumb line
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Plumb
    `Plumb` may refer to: * Plumb-bob, a type of tool * Plumb (singer), a Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter * Plumbing * Plumb, to measure the depth of water with a sounding line
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb

  14. Plumb
    • (a.) Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb. • (v. t.) 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. • (v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to b...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. Plumb
    (from the article `Gee, Maurice`) ...Glorious Morning, Comrade (1975) are set in this milieu. Gee`s best-known work is his Plumb trilogy, which examines the lives of three generations ... ...New Zealanders a more comprehensive view of themselves and their society than fiction had previously offered. For a long time Gee`s best work was ....
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/81

  16. plumb
    plumb, plumbed 1. A weight on the end of a line, used to determine water depth. 2. A weight on the end of a line, used especially by masons and carpenters to establish a true vertical. 3. A small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. 4. In a vertical or perpendi...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  17. Plumb
    The condition of perfect vertical alignment.
    Found on http://www.glazesoft.com/Product_htm/glo

  18. Plumb
    - Exactly vertical and perpendicular.
    Found on http://www.homebuildingmanual.com/Glossa

  19. plumb
    Straight up and down, perfectly vertical
    Found on http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/glossary/vie


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8 November 2009

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Just before 11.00am on 8th November 1987 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning as people gathered at the war memorial in Enniskillen for the annual Remembrance Day service. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured, nine of them seriously, when the three-story gable wall of St Michael's Reading Rooms crashed down burying people in several feet of rubble. The Provisional IRA admitted responsibility the following day. read more

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