PLUMB

Plumb

PLUMB is the stage name of songwriter, recording artist, performer and author Tiffany Arbuckle Lee. Plumb has sold more than 500,000 albums and over two million singles worldwide, co-penned songs for numerous other artists, including Michelle Branch, Mandisa, Mandy Moore, Jaci Velasquez, and Natalie Grant, and had music placed in many films and television shows, including Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, Bruce Almighty, One Tree Hill, The Perfect Man, Just Married, and Dawson’s Creek. Originally signed as a Christian Contemporary Music recording artist in 1997, Plumb is presently known as well or better in Alternative rock, ...

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plumb

Noun

  1. A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
  2. A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.

Verb

  1. To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
  2. To attach to a water supply and drain.
  3. To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
  4. To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
  5. To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
  6. To seal something with lead.
  7. To work as a plumber.
  8. To fall or sink like a plummet.
  9. To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
  10. To position vertically above or below.

Adjective

  1. truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line
  2. Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should be given out.

Adverb

  1. In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
  2. Squarely, directly; completely.
    It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.
    Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.


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