Definition of plume in English:

plume

noun pluːmplum

1A long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament.
a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume
Example sentencesExamples
- Ornamental bird plumes, by weight, were more valuable than gold.
- In the world of high fashion, ladies donned hats adorned with heron and egret plumes, and many even wore elaborate millinery creations containing entire bird bodies.
- Unlike static ornaments, head plumes are highly modifiable and likely signal immediate information regarding a male's intent, similar to a coverable badge.
- Courtship includes many displays - vocalizing, bowing, bill tapping, and stretching to show off nuptial plumes.
- Endless display takes place on old nest platforms and consists of elaborate neck movements with crest and neck plumes erect and accompanied by bill-snapping and a variety of blood-curdling calls.
- They signify social status (such as warrior, married person, or elder) by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets.
- Her head was crowned by a winged helmet with a plume of brightly colored feathers on top.
- The female has a tan head with a small feather plume.
- Finally we were outside and he was walking beside me in his favourite cloak that made him look like a captain, something he had always wanted to be and his wide brimmed hat with the feather plume.
- The chair back is the embodiment of elegance, suggesting an open plume of feathers supported by lyrical S-shaped side rails.
- The highly modified courtship plumes found in many species of birds of paradise are only one extreme of the diversity of courtship plumes found in birds.
- Juveniles have a dark crown with no plumes or ruff, and a mottled neck.
- Great Egrets were nearly wiped out in the United States in the late 1800s when their plumes were fashionable on women's hats.
- Crests and plumes on the head and neck are present during breeding.
- At the end of her tail there was a plume of red feathers.
- Although fairly common now, the great egret came perilously close to extinction at the hands of the hat trade at the beginning of the twentieth century; egret plumes were deemed a fashion accessory.
- Great plumes of fur and feather that were black as the deepest caverns framed his face and trailed down his back, waving wildly in the lightest breeze.
- Bird plumes, which were used to adorn women's hats and other items in the fashion industry, were worth more than gold.
- There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side.
- Callipepla californica are new world quail, birds that have chunky, rounded bodies and crests or head plumes.
Synonyms
feather, crest, quill
technical plumule
literary pinion
1. 1.1Zoology A part of an animal's body that resembles a feather.
  the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes
  Example sentencesExamples
  The creature had a large plume of strands on its head pointing upwards and its body appeared silvery and reflective.
2A long cloud of smoke or vapour resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin.
as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath
Example sentencesExamples
- Their families were said to have been watching the disaster unfold live on television, as footage showed a bright light followed by plumes of white smoke plumes streaking diagonally across the sky.
- Scientists plot such data to identify the signature of a hydrothermal plume - a geothermal phenomenon that indicates the presence of an underwater vent.
- She hung up, switched on the television, and saw plumes of white smoke etched against the blue Texas sky.
- The whale leaves a trench in the ocean floor and trails a plume of mud behind it as it surfaces.
- And a little chemical lab analyzes the sweat, body odor, and skin flakes in the human thermal plume - the halo of heat that surrounds each person.
- In all directions, you can see huge plumes of smoke.
- Two plumes of black smoke can be seen pouring from the building and officials say it is an ‘emergency case’.
- All they could see from where they were was a massive dust cloud and plumes of black smoke.
- In this hypothesis, ethanol plumes from ripening fruits may have served for millions of years to guide primates to ripening fruit crops and also served as an appetite stimulus and welcome source of dietary calories.
- The video showed a white truck exploding and black plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
- All the journalists in the house - three of us - ran outside to see a white plume of smoke rising close by in the north.
- A plume of blue exhaust streams out, the engine screams - and we're off, shooting along the high wire.
- Their breath rose in white plumes as they walked to the driveway and over to Katie's car.
- Detecting the missile's body near or through the bright exhaust plume is very challenging, even with a suite of multiwavelength sensors.
- Fruit flies track ethanol plumes to find fruit.
- Every now and then they would fire a pair of missiles which would explode and send a plume of darker smoke above the white haze of gunsmoke already hanging above the camp.
- The stunt came just days after the Vatican signalled the election of new Pope with a plume of white smoke.
- Moreover, because the rift valley of this ridge is very shallow, the hydrothermal plumes carrying live bacteria and animal larvae can get out of the valley and spread in the general ocean currents.
- The intense flames sent plumes of smoke into the sky and initially prevented police and rescue workers from approaching the bus.
- Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
1. 2.1 A mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source.
  a radioactive plume
  Example sentencesExamples
  And the pollution plumes from power stations in Adelaide have been used as a case study.
  A huge radioactive plume was spreading outward from the exploded reactor core, threatening to contaminate everything in its path with potentially fatal isotopes.
  If this happens, the cooling of the reactor fuel would stop, the radioactive core would start to melt, and the plant will belch a radioactive plume that will threaten millions downwind.
  Regardless of the type of evacuation system used, the capture device should be placed as close as possible to the source of the plume.
  The whole scene was densely shrouded in thick plumes of sulphur.
  New research sponsored by NASA may soon help scientists do a better job of tracking pollution plumes around the world and help provide people more advance warning of unhealthy air.
  Another instrument keeps daily track of the carbon monoxide plumes from fires and the scope of pollution produced regionally and globally.
  While fires are the major contributor to these carbon monoxide plumes, he suspects, at times, industrial sources may also be a factor.
  The plume contained toxic pollutants, possibly cyanide, from foam, oil, acrylic paints and tyres burnt in the blaze.
  Methane gas plumes are also attributed to at least one plane disappearing, because it exploded when it entered the plume.
  A very loud siren will give a shrill whoop-whoop if a deadly plume of gas gets loose, and we're issuing special protective equipment for each home, business, and school.
  "The ash plume can travel, and the hazard to aviation is real, " Steele said.
  The scientists discovered that crabs of diverse sizes feed on vast numbers of zooplankton that are killed by toxic sulphurous plumes emitted from underwater vents.
  The accident sent large plumes of chlorine gas into the air.
  High levels of nitrates and/or bacteria indicate that you have a plume of pollution seeping into your well, possibly from a local farm or industrial area.
3Geology
A localized column of hotter magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in locations away from plate margins.
Example sentencesExamples
- The spatial and chronological evolution of the Canary Islands' volcanism is due to eastward progression of the slow-moving African plate over a mantle plume.
- The presence of a mantle plume beneath the region is widely documented.
- Although it is paradoxical that Iceland's hottest region boasts its biggest ice cap, it is no coincidence: the ice sheet is huge and permanent precisely because lava flowing from the mantle plume has built the mountains so high.
- The wide distribution of the volcanics implies that a mantle plume was present beneath northern Australia in the past.
- Because mantle material in the hot-spot plumes rises quickly through the thin layer where leaching occurs, it doesn't lose as many of its trace elements as slow-rising rock does.

verb pluːmplum

1no object Spread out in a shape resembling a feather.
smoke plumed from the chimneys
Example sentencesExamples
- Thousands of doves took to a sky already blackened by a massive cloud pluming over the cityscape.
- ‘God, I hate this war,’ Marcs said, as another explosion plumed through the air.
- He could see the smoke pluming up from the fires of the camp, but neither the fires nor tents were visible yet.
- Fire raged through the compound, smoke pluming up above it all.
- Cigar smoke plumed toward his nostrils and he choked.
- Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre.
- ‘Loren,’ she breathed, her exhalation pluming in the frosty air, ‘do you see those cars over there?’
- Dust plumed and fell back to its original place.
- Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome.
1. 1.1with object Decorate with or as if with feathers.
  I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk
  Example sentencesExamples
  They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats.
  It had a thin plumed mane of red and black across the top of the helmet fanning out like the feathers of a peacock.
  The stalks of the heavily plumed plants were thick.
  Before him loomed two guards, tall and proud, clad in plumed helms and clutching spears shod in bronze and steel.
  At that moment, in strode a gallantly plumed lord with his servants.
  Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles.
  And their dresses were teasing fantasies plumed with artificial feathers.
  They wear high, plumed hats with blue and white feathers.
  Another man came from behind me and removed his richly plumed helmet.
  The latter's hat rode breathtakingly high atop her massive bronze curls, a giant plumed ostrich feather finished the air.
  IN 1897, 46,000 plumed and scrubbed troops marched through London to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
  He was recognized by his flamboyant uniform and plumed hat.
  In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses.
  They finished it off with a large, white plumed hat with a lacy veil that covered her face.
  Long plumed white birds called over the cliff walls as the beach lay before them, their breakfast and lunch laid out for their leisure.
  The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
  He was wearing a dashing embroidered blood-red doublet, cape, and plumed hat.
  Synonyms
  feathered, plumed, plumy
2plume oneselfarchaic (of a bird) preen itself.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Florida Cormorant is especially addicted to this practice, and dives and plumes itself several times in the day.
- On alighting, which it does plumply, it immediately bends its body, turns its head to look behind it, performs a curious nod, utters its note, then shakes and plumes itself,
1. 2.1 Feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something.
  she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby.’
  All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
  They made endless shrill distinctions and plumed themselves on their beauty and education and sensitivity.
  During the past hundred years, the Western world has been pluming itself on the greatness of its achievements.
  Synonyms
  congratulate oneself, pat oneself on the back, pride oneself, preen oneself, feel proud about, feel self-satisfied about, boast about
  archaic pique oneself

Derivatives

plumeless

adjective

Currently there are six noxious weeds in Nebraska, including Canada thistle, plumeless thistle, musk thistle, leafy spurge, spotted knapweed, and diffuse knapweed.

plume-like

adjective

It has plume-like seed heads, which appear after the flowers and give a long-lasting, smoky haze to branch tips.
Example sentencesExamples
- On the image returned three hours later, these clouds had combined to form a plume-like feature similar to the one seen the previous day.

plumery

noun

The plumery manufactures the entire range of the British Armies plumes in humanely gathered horse hair and feather.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pluma 'down'.

Plume and plumage come via French from Latin pluma ‘down, soft feather’. The Latin was borrowed at an early date into many Germanic languages, probably because from Roman times there was an important trade between these northern lands and the south in warm, soft goose down for stuffing pillows and duvets. From the late 16th century plume was used to describe various objects resembling a feather such as a plume of smoke.

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of plume in US English:

plume

nounplo͞omplum

1A long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament.
a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume
Example sentencesExamples
- At the end of her tail there was a plume of red feathers.
- The highly modified courtship plumes found in many species of birds of paradise are only one extreme of the diversity of courtship plumes found in birds.
- The female has a tan head with a small feather plume.
- Courtship includes many displays - vocalizing, bowing, bill tapping, and stretching to show off nuptial plumes.
- Great plumes of fur and feather that were black as the deepest caverns framed his face and trailed down his back, waving wildly in the lightest breeze.
- They signify social status (such as warrior, married person, or elder) by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets.
- Ornamental bird plumes, by weight, were more valuable than gold.
- Endless display takes place on old nest platforms and consists of elaborate neck movements with crest and neck plumes erect and accompanied by bill-snapping and a variety of blood-curdling calls.
- Unlike static ornaments, head plumes are highly modifiable and likely signal immediate information regarding a male's intent, similar to a coverable badge.
- Callipepla californica are new world quail, birds that have chunky, rounded bodies and crests or head plumes.
- Great Egrets were nearly wiped out in the United States in the late 1800s when their plumes were fashionable on women's hats.
- Finally we were outside and he was walking beside me in his favourite cloak that made him look like a captain, something he had always wanted to be and his wide brimmed hat with the feather plume.
- Bird plumes, which were used to adorn women's hats and other items in the fashion industry, were worth more than gold.
- The chair back is the embodiment of elegance, suggesting an open plume of feathers supported by lyrical S-shaped side rails.
- There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side.
- Juveniles have a dark crown with no plumes or ruff, and a mottled neck.
- Crests and plumes on the head and neck are present during breeding.
- Although fairly common now, the great egret came perilously close to extinction at the hands of the hat trade at the beginning of the twentieth century; egret plumes were deemed a fashion accessory.
- In the world of high fashion, ladies donned hats adorned with heron and egret plumes, and many even wore elaborate millinery creations containing entire bird bodies.
- Her head was crowned by a winged helmet with a plume of brightly colored feathers on top.
Synonyms
feather, crest, quill
1. 1.1Zoology A part of an animal's body that resembles a feather.
  the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes
  Example sentencesExamples
  The creature had a large plume of strands on its head pointing upwards and its body appeared silvery and reflective.
2. 1.2 A long cloud of smoke or vapor resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin.
  as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath
  Example sentencesExamples
  The video showed a white truck exploding and black plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
  Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
  All the journalists in the house - three of us - ran outside to see a white plume of smoke rising close by in the north.
  Scientists plot such data to identify the signature of a hydrothermal plume - a geothermal phenomenon that indicates the presence of an underwater vent.
  The stunt came just days after the Vatican signalled the election of new Pope with a plume of white smoke.
  She hung up, switched on the television, and saw plumes of white smoke etched against the blue Texas sky.
  And a little chemical lab analyzes the sweat, body odor, and skin flakes in the human thermal plume - the halo of heat that surrounds each person.
  In this hypothesis, ethanol plumes from ripening fruits may have served for millions of years to guide primates to ripening fruit crops and also served as an appetite stimulus and welcome source of dietary calories.
  The whale leaves a trench in the ocean floor and trails a plume of mud behind it as it surfaces.
  Two plumes of black smoke can be seen pouring from the building and officials say it is an ‘emergency case’.
  Fruit flies track ethanol plumes to find fruit.
  Their breath rose in white plumes as they walked to the driveway and over to Katie's car.
  In all directions, you can see huge plumes of smoke.
  Their families were said to have been watching the disaster unfold live on television, as footage showed a bright light followed by plumes of white smoke plumes streaking diagonally across the sky.
  Every now and then they would fire a pair of missiles which would explode and send a plume of darker smoke above the white haze of gunsmoke already hanging above the camp.
  The intense flames sent plumes of smoke into the sky and initially prevented police and rescue workers from approaching the bus.
  A plume of blue exhaust streams out, the engine screams - and we're off, shooting along the high wire.
  All they could see from where they were was a massive dust cloud and plumes of black smoke.
  Detecting the missile's body near or through the bright exhaust plume is very challenging, even with a suite of multiwavelength sensors.
  Moreover, because the rift valley of this ridge is very shallow, the hydrothermal plumes carrying live bacteria and animal larvae can get out of the valley and spread in the general ocean currents.
3. 1.3 A mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source.
  a radioactive plume
  Example sentencesExamples
  Another instrument keeps daily track of the carbon monoxide plumes from fires and the scope of pollution produced regionally and globally.
  While fires are the major contributor to these carbon monoxide plumes, he suspects, at times, industrial sources may also be a factor.
  The scientists discovered that crabs of diverse sizes feed on vast numbers of zooplankton that are killed by toxic sulphurous plumes emitted from underwater vents.
  And the pollution plumes from power stations in Adelaide have been used as a case study.
  The whole scene was densely shrouded in thick plumes of sulphur.
  New research sponsored by NASA may soon help scientists do a better job of tracking pollution plumes around the world and help provide people more advance warning of unhealthy air.
  Methane gas plumes are also attributed to at least one plane disappearing, because it exploded when it entered the plume.
  A huge radioactive plume was spreading outward from the exploded reactor core, threatening to contaminate everything in its path with potentially fatal isotopes.
  The accident sent large plumes of chlorine gas into the air.
  Regardless of the type of evacuation system used, the capture device should be placed as close as possible to the source of the plume.
  "The ash plume can travel, and the hazard to aviation is real, " Steele said.
  A very loud siren will give a shrill whoop-whoop if a deadly plume of gas gets loose, and we're issuing special protective equipment for each home, business, and school.
  The plume contained toxic pollutants, possibly cyanide, from foam, oil, acrylic paints and tyres burnt in the blaze.
  High levels of nitrates and/or bacteria indicate that you have a plume of pollution seeping into your well, possibly from a local farm or industrial area.
  If this happens, the cooling of the reactor fuel would stop, the radioactive core would start to melt, and the plant will belch a radioactive plume that will threaten millions downwind.
4. 1.4Geology A localized column of hot magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in hot spots, such as the Hawaiian Islands, away from plate margins.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although it is paradoxical that Iceland's hottest region boasts its biggest ice cap, it is no coincidence: the ice sheet is huge and permanent precisely because lava flowing from the mantle plume has built the mountains so high.
  The spatial and chronological evolution of the Canary Islands' volcanism is due to eastward progression of the slow-moving African plate over a mantle plume.
  The presence of a mantle plume beneath the region is widely documented.
  Because mantle material in the hot-spot plumes rises quickly through the thin layer where leaching occurs, it doesn't lose as many of its trace elements as slow-rising rock does.
  The wide distribution of the volcanics implies that a mantle plume was present beneath northern Australia in the past.

verbplo͞omplum

1no object Spread out in a shape resembling a feather.
smoke plumed from the chimneys
Example sentencesExamples
- Dust plumed and fell back to its original place.
- ‘God, I hate this war,’ Marcs said, as another explosion plumed through the air.
- Thousands of doves took to a sky already blackened by a massive cloud pluming over the cityscape.
- Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome.
- Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre.
- Fire raged through the compound, smoke pluming up above it all.
- Cigar smoke plumed toward his nostrils and he choked.
- ‘Loren,’ she breathed, her exhalation pluming in the frosty air, ‘do you see those cars over there?’
- He could see the smoke pluming up from the fires of the camp, but neither the fires nor tents were visible yet.
1. 1.1with object Decorate with or as if with feathers.
  I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk
  Example sentencesExamples
  Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles.
  They wear high, plumed hats with blue and white feathers.
  And their dresses were teasing fantasies plumed with artificial feathers.
  In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses.
  They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats.
  IN 1897, 46,000 plumed and scrubbed troops marched through London to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
  Before him loomed two guards, tall and proud, clad in plumed helms and clutching spears shod in bronze and steel.
  It had a thin plumed mane of red and black across the top of the helmet fanning out like the feathers of a peacock.
  They finished it off with a large, white plumed hat with a lacy veil that covered her face.
  Another man came from behind me and removed his richly plumed helmet.
  The stalks of the heavily plumed plants were thick.
  He was recognized by his flamboyant uniform and plumed hat.
  He was wearing a dashing embroidered blood-red doublet, cape, and plumed hat.
  Long plumed white birds called over the cliff walls as the beach lay before them, their breakfast and lunch laid out for their leisure.
  The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
  The latter's hat rode breathtakingly high atop her massive bronze curls, a giant plumed ostrich feather finished the air.
  At that moment, in strode a gallantly plumed lord with his servants.
  Synonyms
  feathered, plumed, plumy
2plume oneselfarchaic (of a bird) preen itself.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Florida Cormorant is especially addicted to this practice, and dives and plumes itself several times in the day.
- On alighting, which it does plumply, it immediately bends its body, turns its head to look behind it, performs a curious nod, utters its note, then shakes and plumes itself,
1. 2.1 Feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something.
  she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby.’
  During the past hundred years, the Western world has been pluming itself on the greatness of its achievements.
  They made endless shrill distinctions and plumed themselves on their beauty and education and sensitivity.
  All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
  Synonyms
  congratulate oneself, pat oneself on the back, pride oneself, preen oneself, feel proud about, feel self-satisfied about, boast about

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pluma ‘down’.

单词	plume
释义	Definition of plume in English: plume noun pluːmplum 1A long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament. a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume Example sentencesExamples Ornamental bird plumes, by weight, were more valuable than gold. In the world of high fashion, ladies donned hats adorned with heron and egret plumes, and many even wore elaborate millinery creations containing entire bird bodies. Unlike static ornaments, head plumes are highly modifiable and likely signal immediate information regarding a male's intent, similar to a coverable badge. Courtship includes many displays - vocalizing, bowing, bill tapping, and stretching to show off nuptial plumes. Endless display takes place on old nest platforms and consists of elaborate neck movements with crest and neck plumes erect and accompanied by bill-snapping and a variety of blood-curdling calls. They signify social status (such as warrior, married person, or elder) by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets. Her head was crowned by a winged helmet with a plume of brightly colored feathers on top. The female has a tan head with a small feather plume. Finally we were outside and he was walking beside me in his favourite cloak that made him look like a captain, something he had always wanted to be and his wide brimmed hat with the feather plume. The chair back is the embodiment of elegance, suggesting an open plume of feathers supported by lyrical S-shaped side rails. The highly modified courtship plumes found in many species of birds of paradise are only one extreme of the diversity of courtship plumes found in birds. Juveniles have a dark crown with no plumes or ruff, and a mottled neck. Great Egrets were nearly wiped out in the United States in the late 1800s when their plumes were fashionable on women's hats. Crests and plumes on the head and neck are present during breeding. At the end of her tail there was a plume of red feathers. Although fairly common now, the great egret came perilously close to extinction at the hands of the hat trade at the beginning of the twentieth century; egret plumes were deemed a fashion accessory. Great plumes of fur and feather that were black as the deepest caverns framed his face and trailed down his back, waving wildly in the lightest breeze. Bird plumes, which were used to adorn women's hats and other items in the fashion industry, were worth more than gold. There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side. Callipepla californica are new world quail, birds that have chunky, rounded bodies and crests or head plumes. Synonyms feather, crest, quill technical plumule literary pinion 1.1Zoology A part of an animal's body that resembles a feather. the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes Example sentencesExamples The creature had a large plume of strands on its head pointing upwards and its body appeared silvery and reflective. 2A long cloud of smoke or vapour resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin. as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath Example sentencesExamples Their families were said to have been watching the disaster unfold live on television, as footage showed a bright light followed by plumes of white smoke plumes streaking diagonally across the sky. Scientists plot such data to identify the signature of a hydrothermal plume - a geothermal phenomenon that indicates the presence of an underwater vent. She hung up, switched on the television, and saw plumes of white smoke etched against the blue Texas sky. The whale leaves a trench in the ocean floor and trails a plume of mud behind it as it surfaces. And a little chemical lab analyzes the sweat, body odor, and skin flakes in the human thermal plume - the halo of heat that surrounds each person. In all directions, you can see huge plumes of smoke. Two plumes of black smoke can be seen pouring from the building and officials say it is an ‘emergency case’. All they could see from where they were was a massive dust cloud and plumes of black smoke. In this hypothesis, ethanol plumes from ripening fruits may have served for millions of years to guide primates to ripening fruit crops and also served as an appetite stimulus and welcome source of dietary calories. The video showed a white truck exploding and black plumes of smoke billowing into the air. All the journalists in the house - three of us - ran outside to see a white plume of smoke rising close by in the north. A plume of blue exhaust streams out, the engine screams - and we're off, shooting along the high wire. Their breath rose in white plumes as they walked to the driveway and over to Katie's car. Detecting the missile's body near or through the bright exhaust plume is very challenging, even with a suite of multiwavelength sensors. Fruit flies track ethanol plumes to find fruit. Every now and then they would fire a pair of missiles which would explode and send a plume of darker smoke above the white haze of gunsmoke already hanging above the camp. The stunt came just days after the Vatican signalled the election of new Pope with a plume of white smoke. Moreover, because the rift valley of this ridge is very shallow, the hydrothermal plumes carrying live bacteria and animal larvae can get out of the valley and spread in the general ocean currents. The intense flames sent plumes of smoke into the sky and initially prevented police and rescue workers from approaching the bus. Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna. 2.1 A mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source. a radioactive plume Example sentencesExamples And the pollution plumes from power stations in Adelaide have been used as a case study. A huge radioactive plume was spreading outward from the exploded reactor core, threatening to contaminate everything in its path with potentially fatal isotopes. If this happens, the cooling of the reactor fuel would stop, the radioactive core would start to melt, and the plant will belch a radioactive plume that will threaten millions downwind. Regardless of the type of evacuation system used, the capture device should be placed as close as possible to the source of the plume. The whole scene was densely shrouded in thick plumes of sulphur. New research sponsored by NASA may soon help scientists do a better job of tracking pollution plumes around the world and help provide people more advance warning of unhealthy air. Another instrument keeps daily track of the carbon monoxide plumes from fires and the scope of pollution produced regionally and globally. While fires are the major contributor to these carbon monoxide plumes, he suspects, at times, industrial sources may also be a factor. The plume contained toxic pollutants, possibly cyanide, from foam, oil, acrylic paints and tyres burnt in the blaze. Methane gas plumes are also attributed to at least one plane disappearing, because it exploded when it entered the plume. A very loud siren will give a shrill whoop-whoop if a deadly plume of gas gets loose, and we're issuing special protective equipment for each home, business, and school. "The ash plume can travel, and the hazard to aviation is real, " Steele said. The scientists discovered that crabs of diverse sizes feed on vast numbers of zooplankton that are killed by toxic sulphurous plumes emitted from underwater vents. The accident sent large plumes of chlorine gas into the air. High levels of nitrates and/or bacteria indicate that you have a plume of pollution seeping into your well, possibly from a local farm or industrial area. 3Geology A localized column of hotter magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in locations away from plate margins. Example sentencesExamples The spatial and chronological evolution of the Canary Islands' volcanism is due to eastward progression of the slow-moving African plate over a mantle plume. The presence of a mantle plume beneath the region is widely documented. Although it is paradoxical that Iceland's hottest region boasts its biggest ice cap, it is no coincidence: the ice sheet is huge and permanent precisely because lava flowing from the mantle plume has built the mountains so high. The wide distribution of the volcanics implies that a mantle plume was present beneath northern Australia in the past. Because mantle material in the hot-spot plumes rises quickly through the thin layer where leaching occurs, it doesn't lose as many of its trace elements as slow-rising rock does. verb pluːmplum 1no object Spread out in a shape resembling a feather. smoke plumed from the chimneys Example sentencesExamples Thousands of doves took to a sky already blackened by a massive cloud pluming over the cityscape. ‘God, I hate this war,’ Marcs said, as another explosion plumed through the air. He could see the smoke pluming up from the fires of the camp, but neither the fires nor tents were visible yet. Fire raged through the compound, smoke pluming up above it all. Cigar smoke plumed toward his nostrils and he choked. Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre. ‘Loren,’ she breathed, her exhalation pluming in the frosty air, ‘do you see those cars over there?’ Dust plumed and fell back to its original place. Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome. 1.1with object Decorate with or as if with feathers. I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk Example sentencesExamples They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats. It had a thin plumed mane of red and black across the top of the helmet fanning out like the feathers of a peacock. The stalks of the heavily plumed plants were thick. Before him loomed two guards, tall and proud, clad in plumed helms and clutching spears shod in bronze and steel. At that moment, in strode a gallantly plumed lord with his servants. Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles. And their dresses were teasing fantasies plumed with artificial feathers. They wear high, plumed hats with blue and white feathers. Another man came from behind me and removed his richly plumed helmet. The latter's hat rode breathtakingly high atop her massive bronze curls, a giant plumed ostrich feather finished the air. IN 1897, 46,000 plumed and scrubbed troops marched through London to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. He was recognized by his flamboyant uniform and plumed hat. In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses. They finished it off with a large, white plumed hat with a lacy veil that covered her face. Long plumed white birds called over the cliff walls as the beach lay before them, their breakfast and lunch laid out for their leisure. The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers. He was wearing a dashing embroidered blood-red doublet, cape, and plumed hat. Synonyms feathered, plumed, plumy 2plume oneselfarchaic (of a bird) preen itself. Example sentencesExamples The Florida Cormorant is especially addicted to this practice, and dives and plumes itself several times in the day. On alighting, which it does plumply, it immediately bends its body, turns its head to look behind it, performs a curious nod, utters its note, then shakes and plumes itself, 2.1 Feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something. she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan Example sentencesExamples ‘I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby.’ All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. They made endless shrill distinctions and plumed themselves on their beauty and education and sensitivity. During the past hundred years, the Western world has been pluming itself on the greatness of its achievements. Synonyms congratulate oneself, pat oneself on the back, pride oneself, preen oneself, feel proud about, feel self-satisfied about, boast about archaic pique oneself Derivatives plumeless adjective Currently there are six noxious weeds in Nebraska, including Canada thistle, plumeless thistle, musk thistle, leafy spurge, spotted knapweed, and diffuse knapweed. plume-like adjective It has plume-like seed heads, which appear after the flowers and give a long-lasting, smoky haze to branch tips. Example sentencesExamples On the image returned three hours later, these clouds had combined to form a plume-like feature similar to the one seen the previous day. plumery noun The plumery manufactures the entire range of the British Armies plumes in humanely gathered horse hair and feather. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pluma 'down'. Plume and plumage come via French from Latin pluma ‘down, soft feather’. The Latin was borrowed at an early date into many Germanic languages, probably because from Roman times there was an important trade between these northern lands and the south in warm, soft goose down for stuffing pillows and duvets. From the late 16th century plume was used to describe various objects resembling a feather such as a plume of smoke. Rhymes abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom Definition of plume in US English: plume nounplo͞omplum 1A long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament. a hat with a jaunty ostrich plume Example sentencesExamples At the end of her tail there was a plume of red feathers. The highly modified courtship plumes found in many species of birds of paradise are only one extreme of the diversity of courtship plumes found in birds. The female has a tan head with a small feather plume. Courtship includes many displays - vocalizing, bowing, bill tapping, and stretching to show off nuptial plumes. Great plumes of fur and feather that were black as the deepest caverns framed his face and trailed down his back, waving wildly in the lightest breeze. They signify social status (such as warrior, married person, or elder) by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets. Ornamental bird plumes, by weight, were more valuable than gold. Endless display takes place on old nest platforms and consists of elaborate neck movements with crest and neck plumes erect and accompanied by bill-snapping and a variety of blood-curdling calls. Unlike static ornaments, head plumes are highly modifiable and likely signal immediate information regarding a male's intent, similar to a coverable badge. Callipepla californica are new world quail, birds that have chunky, rounded bodies and crests or head plumes. Great Egrets were nearly wiped out in the United States in the late 1800s when their plumes were fashionable on women's hats. Finally we were outside and he was walking beside me in his favourite cloak that made him look like a captain, something he had always wanted to be and his wide brimmed hat with the feather plume. Bird plumes, which were used to adorn women's hats and other items in the fashion industry, were worth more than gold. The chair back is the embodiment of elegance, suggesting an open plume of feathers supported by lyrical S-shaped side rails. There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side. Juveniles have a dark crown with no plumes or ruff, and a mottled neck. Crests and plumes on the head and neck are present during breeding. Although fairly common now, the great egret came perilously close to extinction at the hands of the hat trade at the beginning of the twentieth century; egret plumes were deemed a fashion accessory. In the world of high fashion, ladies donned hats adorned with heron and egret plumes, and many even wore elaborate millinery creations containing entire bird bodies. Her head was crowned by a winged helmet with a plume of brightly colored feathers on top. Synonyms feather, crest, quill 1.1Zoology A part of an animal's body that resembles a feather. the antennae are divided into large feathery plumes Example sentencesExamples The creature had a large plume of strands on its head pointing upwards and its body appeared silvery and reflective. 1.2 A long cloud of smoke or vapor resembling a feather as it spreads from its point of origin. as he spoke, the word was accompanied by a white plume of breath Example sentencesExamples The video showed a white truck exploding and black plumes of smoke billowing into the air. Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna. All the journalists in the house - three of us - ran outside to see a white plume of smoke rising close by in the north. Scientists plot such data to identify the signature of a hydrothermal plume - a geothermal phenomenon that indicates the presence of an underwater vent. The stunt came just days after the Vatican signalled the election of new Pope with a plume of white smoke. She hung up, switched on the television, and saw plumes of white smoke etched against the blue Texas sky. And a little chemical lab analyzes the sweat, body odor, and skin flakes in the human thermal plume - the halo of heat that surrounds each person. In this hypothesis, ethanol plumes from ripening fruits may have served for millions of years to guide primates to ripening fruit crops and also served as an appetite stimulus and welcome source of dietary calories. The whale leaves a trench in the ocean floor and trails a plume of mud behind it as it surfaces. Two plumes of black smoke can be seen pouring from the building and officials say it is an ‘emergency case’. Fruit flies track ethanol plumes to find fruit. Their breath rose in white plumes as they walked to the driveway and over to Katie's car. In all directions, you can see huge plumes of smoke. Their families were said to have been watching the disaster unfold live on television, as footage showed a bright light followed by plumes of white smoke plumes streaking diagonally across the sky. Every now and then they would fire a pair of missiles which would explode and send a plume of darker smoke above the white haze of gunsmoke already hanging above the camp. The intense flames sent plumes of smoke into the sky and initially prevented police and rescue workers from approaching the bus. A plume of blue exhaust streams out, the engine screams - and we're off, shooting along the high wire. All they could see from where they were was a massive dust cloud and plumes of black smoke. Detecting the missile's body near or through the bright exhaust plume is very challenging, even with a suite of multiwavelength sensors. Moreover, because the rift valley of this ridge is very shallow, the hydrothermal plumes carrying live bacteria and animal larvae can get out of the valley and spread in the general ocean currents. 1.3 A mass of material, typically a pollutant, spreading from a source. a radioactive plume Example sentencesExamples Another instrument keeps daily track of the carbon monoxide plumes from fires and the scope of pollution produced regionally and globally. While fires are the major contributor to these carbon monoxide plumes, he suspects, at times, industrial sources may also be a factor. The scientists discovered that crabs of diverse sizes feed on vast numbers of zooplankton that are killed by toxic sulphurous plumes emitted from underwater vents. And the pollution plumes from power stations in Adelaide have been used as a case study. The whole scene was densely shrouded in thick plumes of sulphur. New research sponsored by NASA may soon help scientists do a better job of tracking pollution plumes around the world and help provide people more advance warning of unhealthy air. Methane gas plumes are also attributed to at least one plane disappearing, because it exploded when it entered the plume. A huge radioactive plume was spreading outward from the exploded reactor core, threatening to contaminate everything in its path with potentially fatal isotopes. The accident sent large plumes of chlorine gas into the air. Regardless of the type of evacuation system used, the capture device should be placed as close as possible to the source of the plume. "The ash plume can travel, and the hazard to aviation is real, " Steele said. A very loud siren will give a shrill whoop-whoop if a deadly plume of gas gets loose, and we're issuing special protective equipment for each home, business, and school. The plume contained toxic pollutants, possibly cyanide, from foam, oil, acrylic paints and tyres burnt in the blaze. High levels of nitrates and/or bacteria indicate that you have a plume of pollution seeping into your well, possibly from a local farm or industrial area. If this happens, the cooling of the reactor fuel would stop, the radioactive core would start to melt, and the plant will belch a radioactive plume that will threaten millions downwind. 1.4Geology A localized column of hot magma rising by convection in the mantle, believed to cause volcanic activity in hot spots, such as the Hawaiian Islands, away from plate margins. Example sentencesExamples Although it is paradoxical that Iceland's hottest region boasts its biggest ice cap, it is no coincidence: the ice sheet is huge and permanent precisely because lava flowing from the mantle plume has built the mountains so high. The spatial and chronological evolution of the Canary Islands' volcanism is due to eastward progression of the slow-moving African plate over a mantle plume. The presence of a mantle plume beneath the region is widely documented. Because mantle material in the hot-spot plumes rises quickly through the thin layer where leaching occurs, it doesn't lose as many of its trace elements as slow-rising rock does. The wide distribution of the volcanics implies that a mantle plume was present beneath northern Australia in the past. verbplo͞omplum 1no object Spread out in a shape resembling a feather. smoke plumed from the chimneys Example sentencesExamples Dust plumed and fell back to its original place. ‘God, I hate this war,’ Marcs said, as another explosion plumed through the air. Thousands of doves took to a sky already blackened by a massive cloud pluming over the cityscape. Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome. Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre. Fire raged through the compound, smoke pluming up above it all. Cigar smoke plumed toward his nostrils and he choked. ‘Loren,’ she breathed, her exhalation pluming in the frosty air, ‘do you see those cars over there?’ He could see the smoke pluming up from the fires of the camp, but neither the fires nor tents were visible yet. 1.1with object Decorate with or as if with feathers. I plumed the hat with a couple of soft feathers from the tail of a hawk Example sentencesExamples Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles. They wear high, plumed hats with blue and white feathers. And their dresses were teasing fantasies plumed with artificial feathers. In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses. They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats. IN 1897, 46,000 plumed and scrubbed troops marched through London to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Before him loomed two guards, tall and proud, clad in plumed helms and clutching spears shod in bronze and steel. It had a thin plumed mane of red and black across the top of the helmet fanning out like the feathers of a peacock. They finished it off with a large, white plumed hat with a lacy veil that covered her face. Another man came from behind me and removed his richly plumed helmet. The stalks of the heavily plumed plants were thick. He was recognized by his flamboyant uniform and plumed hat. He was wearing a dashing embroidered blood-red doublet, cape, and plumed hat. Long plumed white birds called over the cliff walls as the beach lay before them, their breakfast and lunch laid out for their leisure. The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers. The latter's hat rode breathtakingly high atop her massive bronze curls, a giant plumed ostrich feather finished the air. At that moment, in strode a gallantly plumed lord with his servants. Synonyms feathered, plumed, plumy 2plume oneselfarchaic (of a bird) preen itself. Example sentencesExamples The Florida Cormorant is especially addicted to this practice, and dives and plumes itself several times in the day. On alighting, which it does plumply, it immediately bends its body, turns its head to look behind it, performs a curious nod, utters its note, then shakes and plumes itself, 2.1 Feel a great sense of self-satisfaction about something. she plumed herself on being cosmopolitan Example sentencesExamples ‘I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby.’ During the past hundred years, the Western world has been pluming itself on the greatness of its achievements. They made endless shrill distinctions and plumed themselves on their beauty and education and sensitivity. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Synonyms congratulate oneself, pat oneself on the back, pride oneself, preen oneself, feel proud about, feel self-satisfied about, boast about Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pluma ‘down’.
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