[pluhm] 
noun, adjective, plum⋅mer, plum⋅mest.| 1. | the drupaceous fruit of any of several trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, having an oblong stone. |
| 2. | the tree itself. |
| 3. | any of various other trees bearing a plumlike fruit. |
| 4. | the fruit itself. |
| 5. | a sugarplum. |
| 6. | a raisin, as in a cake or pudding. |
| 7. | a deep purple varying from bluish to reddish. |
| 8. | Informal. an excellent or desirable thing, as a fine position: The choicest plums went to his old cronies. |
| 9. | Informal. an unanticipated large increase in money or property, as an unexpected legacy; a windfall: The company offered bonuses and other plums. |
| 10. | Also called displacer. a large stone used in massive concrete construction. |
| 11. | extremely desirable, rewarding, profitable, or the like: a plum job in the foreign service. |
[pluhm] | 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. |
| 2. | true according to a plumb line; perpendicular. |
| 3. | Informal. downright or absolute. |
| 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. |
| 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. | to measure (depth) by sounding. |
| 12. | to examine closely in order to discover or understand: to plumb someone's thoughts. |
| 13. | to seal with lead. |
| 14. | to weight with lead. |
| 15. | to provide (a house, building, apartment, etc.) with plumbing. |
| 16. | to work as a plumber. |
| 17. | out of or off plumb, not corresponding to the perpendicular; out of true. |
