plummet

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (archaic) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
2. (archaic) Hence, any weight.
3. (archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).
4. A violent or dramatic fall.
5. (figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop.

Verb

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

Konzepte

Lot

Senkblei

abstürzen

absinken

stürzen

fahren

Blei

Senkwaage

runterrasen

Senker

Bleigewicht

runtersauesen

fallen

Synonyme

plumb

plumb bob

fall

plunge

plumb line

bob

nosedive

lead

sounding lead

dive

sink

sinker

sounding line

plumb-line

topple

plump

tumble

hurl down

stumble

drop

lance

level

lower

lunge

plunk

regurgitate

rush

scoot

scud

spirit level

stoop

swoop

tum

zoom

grow less

hand lead

shower down

straight down

weight

sounding-instrument

gravity weight

lead-pen

sink-stone

barge

lead-hammer

bear down

buck

bullet

burst

crash

Übersetzungen

plomada

tomber

dégringoler

schietlood

precipitare

despencar

prumo

cair

cado

ağırlık

sonda

çekül

paslood

şey

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈplʌmɪt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: plommet

In summary

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.