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Gravity's oldest employee, a string and a weight that never once lied about straight down.
means To be perfectly vertical, or to measure that verticality (with a weighted line); figuratively, to explore something to its full depth.
from From Latin 'plumbum,' meaning lead — the soft, heavy metal. A weight of lead tied to a string makes a 'plumb line,' the builder's truth-teller for vertical. The same root gives us 'plumber' (who once worked lead pipes) and the chemical symbol Pb. To 'plumb the depths' borrows the image of a lead weight dropped to sound how deep the water runs.
- latin root
- From plumbum, Latin for lead, the dangling weight
- shared ancestry
- Same root gives us plumber and plunge
- means deep
- To plumb depths is to measure them
- plumb crazy
- Plumb also means utterly, completely, dead-on
- ancient tool
- Egyptians used plumb bobs building the pyramids
bob plumb — english composer and organist (1846-1915) who wrote sacred music and anthems
plumb design — architecture and design firm founded by charles plumb in new zealand, known for residential and commercial work