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Plumb

A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.

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Perpendicular 84% connected

Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Perpendicular 84% connected

Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Vertical 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Vertical 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.

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Adjust 76% connected

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bob 76% connected

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's ta…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Burden 76% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Burthen 76% connected

See Burden.

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Correct 76% connected

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Explore 76% connected

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Weight 76% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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Perpendicular 70% connected

Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Clean 92% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plum 92% connected

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plummet 92% connected

A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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