| 单词 | plummet line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplummet line plummet line n. a plumb line (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [noun] > a standard or norm regulaOE standardc1475 rate1509 square1549 formular1563 squarier1581 scantling1587 the King's beam1607 referencea1627 modulea1628 norme1635 the common beam1647 normaa1676 plummet line1683 norm1821 modulus1857 normative1909 1683 J. Lead Revelation of Revelations 12 Until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning. 1730 E. Oakley Mag. Archit., Perspective, & Sculpt. v. 94 Those Parts which recede inward, and are so removed out of the Reach of Sight and easy Access, that the Plummet-Line cannot come to touch them. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxi. 266 Each long black hair upon his head hung down as straight as any plummet line. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 171 Shakespeare has surface beneath surface..adapted to the plummet-line of every reader. 2001 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 8 Apr. g4 What follows is..a story, as well-laid out as a blueprint, as straight as any plummet line. < as lemmas |
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