plummet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim Hence, any weight.

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

3. isim A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).
4. isim A violent or dramatic fall.
5. isim 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.”

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

   “After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.”