plume

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
2. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
3. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
4. The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
5. Short for plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
6. Things resembling a feather.
7. Things resembling a feather.
8. Things resembling a feather.
9. Things resembling a feather.
10. Things resembling a feather.
11. Things resembling a feather.
12. Things resembling a feather.
13. Things resembling a feather.

Verb

1. To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
2. Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figurative), to prepare for (something).
3. To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.
4. To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
5. (obsolete) To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
6. To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.
7. Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpluːm/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Late Middle English plum, plume (“feather; plumage”), from Anglo-Norman plum, plume and Middle French, Old French plume, plome (“plumage; down used for stuffing pillows, etc.; pen, quill”) (modern French plume (“feather; pen, quill; pen nib; (figurative) writer”)), and directly from its etymon Latin plūma (“feather; plumage; down”) (compare Late Latin plūma (“pen, quill”)), from Proto-Italic *plouksmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly; to flow; to run; to flap with hands; to splash”).
The English word is a doublet of pluma.