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noun
1.
a person who installs and repairs piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with the water supply, drainage systems, etc., both in and out of buildings.
2.
Slang. an undercover operative or spy hired to detect or stop leaks of news or secret information, often using questionable or illegal methods, as illegal entry or wiretapping.
3.
Obsolete. a worker in lead or similar metals.
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Plumber
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Example Sentences
- Mid-April or so is a good time to start lining up your plumber and looking for someone to restore the radiators.
- If the plumber wants to put ethylene glycol in your hot water heating system, he's a dangerous idiot.
- The_Prof's point about the plumber and the anthropologist is even more pertinent in today's economy.
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noun
1.
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. Compare plumb line.
adjective Also, plum.
2.
true according to a plumb line; perpendicular.
3.
Informal. downright or absolute.
adverb Also, plum.
4.
in a perpendicular or vertical direction.
5.
exactly, precisely, or directly.
6.
Informal. completely or absolutely: She was plumb mad. You're plumb right.
verb (used with object)
7.
to test or adjust by a plumb line.
8.
to make vertical.
9.
Shipbuilding. horn (def. 31).
10.
to sound with or as with a plumb line.
11.
EXPANDto measure (depth) by sounding.
verb (used without object)
Idiom16.
to work as a plumber.
17.
out of
/off plumb, not corresponding to the perpendicular; out of true.
/off plumb, not corresponding to the perpendicular; out of true.Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English plumbe, probably < Anglo-French *plombe < Vulgar Latin *plumba, for Latin plumbum lead
1250–1300; Middle English plumbe, probably < Anglo-French *plombe < Vulgar Latin *plumba, for Latin plumbum lead
Related forms
plumb·a·ble, adjective
plumb·less, adjective
plumb·ness, noun
re·plumb, verb (used with object)
un·plumb, adjective
Synonyms
2. vertical, straight, square.
2. vertical, straight, square.
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Word Origin & History
plumb
c.1300, "lead hung on a string to show the vertical line," from O.Fr. *plombe, plomme "sounding lead," from L.L. *plumba, originally pl. of L. plumbum "lead," the metal, of unknown origin, related to Gk. molybdos "lead" (dial. bolimos), probably from an extinct Mediterranean language, perhaps Iberian.
EXPANDThe verb is first recorded c.1380, with sense "to immerse;" meaning "take soundings with a plumb" is first recorded 1568; fig. sense of "to get to the bottom of" is from 1599. Plumb-bob is from 1835. Adj. sense of "perpendicular, vertical" is from c.1460; the notion of "exact measurement" led to extended sense of "completely, downright" (1748), sometimes spelled plump or plunk.
plumber
c.1100, "a worker in any sort of lead," from O.Fr. plummier (Fr. plombier), from L. plumbarius "worker in lead," properly an adj., "pertaining to lead," from plumbum "lead" (see plumb). Meaning shifted 19c. to "workman who installs pipes and fittings" as lead water pipes became
the principal concern of the trade. In U.S. Nixon administration (1969-74), the name of a special unit for investigation of "leaks" of government secrets. Plumbing "water pipes" is first recorded 1884.
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Plumber definition
programming, toolA system for obtaining information about memory leaks in Ada and C programs.
(http://home.earthlink.net/~owenomalley/plumber.html).
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