NOUN
- a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
How To Use plumb line In A Sentence
- If any walls appear to lean, check by going back to the nearest upper window and drop a plumb line down.
- Equally, no plumb line can fathom the depths of my misery at sitting through this overlong, mediocre serial. Times, Sunday Times
- One of their plumb lines is that they send their best people. Christianity Today
- One of their plumb lines is that they send their best people. Christianity Today
- Equally, no plumb line can fathom the depths of my misery at sitting through this overlong, mediocre serial. Times, Sunday Times
- A long plumb line, emerging from the bottom of the hemisphere, seems to suddenly drop, its tip a smaller, whirling cluster, reminiscent of the pooling and rippling of water.
- Equally, no plumb line can fathom the depths of my misery at sitting through this overlong, mediocre serial. Times, Sunday Times
- For me these meditations are like a plumb line dropped by a master builder — to see if the walls are straight or crooked.
- Thus, a drawing by Chiaruttini of 1786 demonstrates that Canova used this form of pointing with a scaled frame and plumb lines for the production of his monument to Clement XIV.
- Others project a brilliant vertical plumb line on walls and posts, or an exactly located spot on the ceiling, permitting perfectly aligned walls, wallboard, and plumbing.