Definition of plummet in English:

plummet

verbplummeted, plummeting, plummets ˈplʌmɪtˈpləmət

[no object]

1Fall or drop straight down at high speed.
a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully
Example sentencesExamples
- Starting to gain speed at the end of the hill, she plummeted into a giant stack of rolled up hay.
- He said the woman had clipped the near-side kerb and left the road, plummeting at least 200 feet down the ravine.
- When he was halfway through, his foot slipped and he plummeted into the river.
- The bus winds around hair-pin corners on the cliffs overlooking the sea with such break-neck speed that I thought for sure the bus would eventually plummet off the side of the cliff and into the sea!
- Requiring nerves of steel, speed sky diving involves plummeting from a plane at more than 300 mph.
- Kate fiddled with her seatbelt for a minute, trying to work out exactly how the thin piece of blue material was supposed to save her life if the plane began to plummet twenty-five thousand feet towards the ground.
- A window cleaner plummeted to his death after falling from a block of flats.
- The water plunges through a gap in the rock more than 100 feet up, plummeting into a round pool surrounded by a sand beach.
- If he fell, he would plummet 60 feet straight down onto the jumble of boulders strewn at the base.
- A car careered off a cliff-top road in North Yorkshire, plummeting 100 feet and seriously injuring its York driver.
- I'm standing on the edge of a 375-foot bridge, ready to plummet toward the water with nothing but a cord keeping me from impact.
- The falls emerge from a cave, shoot over a cliff, and plummet 110 feet before disappearing into another chasm.
- Either side, water plummets over the dizzying drop in great cascading sheets, crashing down on the rocks far below.
- Your acts may get you killed, in fact the entire aircraft may plummet to the earth, killing everyone on board.
- The construction fell apart as it plummeted down to the dark ground far below.
- Without warning, he dropped straight down, plummeting toward the ground far below.
- A Morecambe teenager was airlifted to hospital after plummeting 30 feet onto rocks from a cliff.
Synonyms
plunge, fall headlong, hurtle, nosedive, dive, drop, crash, descend rapidly
1. 1.1 Decrease rapidly in value or amount.
  hardware sales plummeted
  Example sentencesExamples
  Other residents expressed fears that the village's character would be ruined and house values would plummet.
  The value of the group has plummeted from more than £1bn to just under £100m today.
  Day-time temperatures are frequently in the low twenties centigrade but, once night falls, they plummet to minus ten or even below that in a matter of minutes.
  And they plummeted to relegation on the back of five straight defeats at the end of the season, failing to hit the net in any of the last three.
  In fact circulation plummeted, and when he learned that 80,000 readers had fallen away he knew the game was up.
  Industrial production continued to plummet in September, the twelfth straight month of decline, according to a report issued earlier this week by the Federal Reserve.
  They say their sales have plummeted in the last few days as they struggle to restore their reputations.
  Shareholders saw their holdings plummet in value soon after the launch.
  She said the value of houses has plummeted so low landlords are able to buy property at rock bottom cost and then rent them out for profit.
  Some Wall Street firms warn the currency's value may plummet quickly.
  I don't see the point of spending in the region of £15,000 on a brand new car that'll plummet in value by as much as a third in its first year.
  The quantity of money circulating in the local economy would suddenly plummet, killing off what remains of local economic life and services.
  She said she knew of people whose property values had plummeted, and others who had been deterred from moving to the area as a result of the threat.
  Continuing uncertainty about the area's future meant land values had plummeted.
  After seeing the value of their savings plummet in recent months, policyholders will finally get a chance to raise their concerns at the annual general meeting - and there are likely to be many.
  After an early spike in share prices, they went on a downward slide that saw them plummet to half their value in the space of two years.
  The sale was abruptly halted, the value of the painting plummeted and the they decided to sue.
  The hurricanes could trigger an economic downturn, as consumer confidence plummets and spending falls across the country.
  But they warned that temperatures were set to plummet, with snow falling on higher ground.
  Synonyms
  fall steeply/sharply, plunge, tumble, drop/decrease rapidly, go down, sink, slump
  informal crash, nosedive, take a nosedive

nounPlural plummets ˈplʌmɪtˈpləmət

1A steep and rapid fall or drop.
the bird has a circular display flight followed by an earthward plummet
Example sentencesExamples
- Since when was dropping from ‘virtually nothing’ to ‘almost nothing at all’ constitute a plummet?
- I went in to watch the first half, and despite the central character's life going well, in the face adversity, I could sense a plummet in the second half.
- We all sit as on a pin-point now, ready for a plummet into colder times - even if the climatic cliffs of fall, instead of being in seconds of time, are in thousands of years.
- Somehow he has turned our headlong plummet into the sign of hope for the future.
- Evline couldn't even get a word in as her words were blown back into her throat by the massive plummet towards the ground, like a drop on a rollercoaster.
- What I could really do with right now is a plummet in the Sterling / Dollar rate and then life would be so much better.
- The building began it's plummet, falling forward.
- Only one of the creatures lived past its plummet to the ground, staggering about and flapping its giant wings in an attempt to extinguish the bits of flame lapping at its skin.
- His body was pushed back in the seat by the fall, the plummet sending his adrenaline running through his veins.
- The plummet in interest in religion was brought home last week when only one Catholic Priest was ordained in Northern Ireland for the year coming.
- The elevator dropped fast, Roy swearing that he almost rose off of the floor with the plummet, and he wondered how far underground the Defense Monitoring room was.
Synonyms
tumble, trip, spill, topple, stumble, slip
2A plumb or plumb line.
Example sentencesExamples
- With a heavy plummet, I plumb the depth and set the float so that about half the float's length is protruding above the surface.
- All we are going to do is put a plummet on and lower it in, tight to the margins, turn sideways to drop it right in at the edge of the vegetation.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French plommet 'small sounding lead', diminutive of plomb 'lead'. The current verb sense dates from the 1930s.

plumb from Middle English:
You can say that something which is not quite perpendicular is out of plumb. This draws on the original meaning of plumb, a ball of lead attached to a string to determine a vertical line, or a plumb line. Another early use was as a term for a sounding lead used for measuring the depth of water. To plumb a body of water was to measure its depth in this way, and is the source of the phrase plumb the depths. The source of plumb is Latin plumbum ‘lead’, also the root of plumber. Medieval plumbers dealt in and worked with lead, and it was not until the 19th century that the word was applied solely to people trained in fitting and repairing water pipes, which were initially all made of lead. The Latin word plumbum is also the basis of plummet, which came into medieval English from Old French and then referred to a plumb line. The use of plummet as a verb meaning ‘to drop straight down rapidly, to plunge’ is more recent, first recorded in the 1850s. An early use of the verb was ‘to let a vertical line fall by means of a plummet’, and the modern sense developed from this. To do something with aplomb (late 18th century) comes from the French phrase à plomb, ‘straight as a plumb line’. Plunge (Late Middle English) also comes from plumbum, this time via Old French plungier ‘to thrust down’. The phrase take the plunge dates from the mid 19th century.

Rhymes

summit

Definition of plummet in US English:

plummet

verbˈpləmətˈpləmət

[no object]

1Fall or drop straight down at high speed.
a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully
Example sentencesExamples
- A car careered off a cliff-top road in North Yorkshire, plummeting 100 feet and seriously injuring its York driver.
- Without warning, he dropped straight down, plummeting toward the ground far below.
- The construction fell apart as it plummeted down to the dark ground far below.
- I'm standing on the edge of a 375-foot bridge, ready to plummet toward the water with nothing but a cord keeping me from impact.
- When he was halfway through, his foot slipped and he plummeted into the river.
- He said the woman had clipped the near-side kerb and left the road, plummeting at least 200 feet down the ravine.
- A window cleaner plummeted to his death after falling from a block of flats.
- The water plunges through a gap in the rock more than 100 feet up, plummeting into a round pool surrounded by a sand beach.
- Requiring nerves of steel, speed sky diving involves plummeting from a plane at more than 300 mph.
- Your acts may get you killed, in fact the entire aircraft may plummet to the earth, killing everyone on board.
- If he fell, he would plummet 60 feet straight down onto the jumble of boulders strewn at the base.
- The falls emerge from a cave, shoot over a cliff, and plummet 110 feet before disappearing into another chasm.
- Kate fiddled with her seatbelt for a minute, trying to work out exactly how the thin piece of blue material was supposed to save her life if the plane began to plummet twenty-five thousand feet towards the ground.
- A Morecambe teenager was airlifted to hospital after plummeting 30 feet onto rocks from a cliff.
- Starting to gain speed at the end of the hill, she plummeted into a giant stack of rolled up hay.
- Either side, water plummets over the dizzying drop in great cascading sheets, crashing down on the rocks far below.
- The bus winds around hair-pin corners on the cliffs overlooking the sea with such break-neck speed that I thought for sure the bus would eventually plummet off the side of the cliff and into the sea!
Synonyms
plunge, fall headlong, hurtle, nosedive, dive, drop, crash, descend rapidly
1. 1.1 Decrease rapidly in value or amount.
  hardware sales plummeted
  Example sentencesExamples
  She said she knew of people whose property values had plummeted, and others who had been deterred from moving to the area as a result of the threat.
  The quantity of money circulating in the local economy would suddenly plummet, killing off what remains of local economic life and services.
  But they warned that temperatures were set to plummet, with snow falling on higher ground.
  Shareholders saw their holdings plummet in value soon after the launch.
  After seeing the value of their savings plummet in recent months, policyholders will finally get a chance to raise their concerns at the annual general meeting - and there are likely to be many.
  The sale was abruptly halted, the value of the painting plummeted and the they decided to sue.
  Day-time temperatures are frequently in the low twenties centigrade but, once night falls, they plummet to minus ten or even below that in a matter of minutes.
  She said the value of houses has plummeted so low landlords are able to buy property at rock bottom cost and then rent them out for profit.
  I don't see the point of spending in the region of £15,000 on a brand new car that'll plummet in value by as much as a third in its first year.
  They say their sales have plummeted in the last few days as they struggle to restore their reputations.
  The value of the group has plummeted from more than £1bn to just under £100m today.
  Industrial production continued to plummet in September, the twelfth straight month of decline, according to a report issued earlier this week by the Federal Reserve.
  After an early spike in share prices, they went on a downward slide that saw them plummet to half their value in the space of two years.
  The hurricanes could trigger an economic downturn, as consumer confidence plummets and spending falls across the country.
  And they plummeted to relegation on the back of five straight defeats at the end of the season, failing to hit the net in any of the last three.
  In fact circulation plummeted, and when he learned that 80,000 readers had fallen away he knew the game was up.
  Other residents expressed fears that the village's character would be ruined and house values would plummet.
  Continuing uncertainty about the area's future meant land values had plummeted.
  Some Wall Street firms warn the currency's value may plummet quickly.
  Synonyms
  fall sharply, fall steeply, plunge, tumble, decrease rapidly, drop rapidly, go down, sink, slump

nounˈpləmətˈpləmət

1A steep and rapid fall or drop.
Example sentencesExamples
- I went in to watch the first half, and despite the central character's life going well, in the face adversity, I could sense a plummet in the second half.
- The plummet in interest in religion was brought home last week when only one Catholic Priest was ordained in Northern Ireland for the year coming.
- Evline couldn't even get a word in as her words were blown back into her throat by the massive plummet towards the ground, like a drop on a rollercoaster.
- Somehow he has turned our headlong plummet into the sign of hope for the future.
- His body was pushed back in the seat by the fall, the plummet sending his adrenaline running through his veins.
- The building began it's plummet, falling forward.
- Only one of the creatures lived past its plummet to the ground, staggering about and flapping its giant wings in an attempt to extinguish the bits of flame lapping at its skin.
- Since when was dropping from ‘virtually nothing’ to ‘almost nothing at all’ constitute a plummet?
- The elevator dropped fast, Roy swearing that he almost rose off of the floor with the plummet, and he wondered how far underground the Defense Monitoring room was.
- We all sit as on a pin-point now, ready for a plummet into colder times - even if the climatic cliffs of fall, instead of being in seconds of time, are in thousands of years.
- What I could really do with right now is a plummet in the Sterling / Dollar rate and then life would be so much better.
Synonyms
tumble, trip, spill, topple, stumble, slip
2A plumb or plumb line.
Example sentencesExamples
- With a heavy plummet, I plumb the depth and set the float so that about half the float's length is protruding above the surface.
- All we are going to do is put a plummet on and lower it in, tight to the margins, turn sideways to drop it right in at the edge of the vegetation.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French plommet ‘small sounding lead’, diminutive of plomb ‘lead’. The current verb sense dates from the 1930s.

单词	plummet
释义	Definition of plummet in English: plummet verbplummeted, plummeting, plummets ˈplʌmɪtˈpləmət [no object] 1Fall or drop straight down at high speed. a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully Example sentencesExamples Starting to gain speed at the end of the hill, she plummeted into a giant stack of rolled up hay. He said the woman had clipped the near-side kerb and left the road, plummeting at least 200 feet down the ravine. When he was halfway through, his foot slipped and he plummeted into the river. The bus winds around hair-pin corners on the cliffs overlooking the sea with such break-neck speed that I thought for sure the bus would eventually plummet off the side of the cliff and into the sea! Requiring nerves of steel, speed sky diving involves plummeting from a plane at more than 300 mph. Kate fiddled with her seatbelt for a minute, trying to work out exactly how the thin piece of blue material was supposed to save her life if the plane began to plummet twenty-five thousand feet towards the ground. A window cleaner plummeted to his death after falling from a block of flats. The water plunges through a gap in the rock more than 100 feet up, plummeting into a round pool surrounded by a sand beach. If he fell, he would plummet 60 feet straight down onto the jumble of boulders strewn at the base. A car careered off a cliff-top road in North Yorkshire, plummeting 100 feet and seriously injuring its York driver. I'm standing on the edge of a 375-foot bridge, ready to plummet toward the water with nothing but a cord keeping me from impact. The falls emerge from a cave, shoot over a cliff, and plummet 110 feet before disappearing into another chasm. Either side, water plummets over the dizzying drop in great cascading sheets, crashing down on the rocks far below. Your acts may get you killed, in fact the entire aircraft may plummet to the earth, killing everyone on board. The construction fell apart as it plummeted down to the dark ground far below. Without warning, he dropped straight down, plummeting toward the ground far below. A Morecambe teenager was airlifted to hospital after plummeting 30 feet onto rocks from a cliff. Synonyms plunge, fall headlong, hurtle, nosedive, dive, drop, crash, descend rapidly 1.1 Decrease rapidly in value or amount. hardware sales plummeted Example sentencesExamples Other residents expressed fears that the village's character would be ruined and house values would plummet. The value of the group has plummeted from more than £1bn to just under £100m today. Day-time temperatures are frequently in the low twenties centigrade but, once night falls, they plummet to minus ten or even below that in a matter of minutes. And they plummeted to relegation on the back of five straight defeats at the end of the season, failing to hit the net in any of the last three. In fact circulation plummeted, and when he learned that 80,000 readers had fallen away he knew the game was up. Industrial production continued to plummet in September, the twelfth straight month of decline, according to a report issued earlier this week by the Federal Reserve. They say their sales have plummeted in the last few days as they struggle to restore their reputations. Shareholders saw their holdings plummet in value soon after the launch. She said the value of houses has plummeted so low landlords are able to buy property at rock bottom cost and then rent them out for profit. Some Wall Street firms warn the currency's value may plummet quickly. I don't see the point of spending in the region of £15,000 on a brand new car that'll plummet in value by as much as a third in its first year. The quantity of money circulating in the local economy would suddenly plummet, killing off what remains of local economic life and services. She said she knew of people whose property values had plummeted, and others who had been deterred from moving to the area as a result of the threat. Continuing uncertainty about the area's future meant land values had plummeted. After seeing the value of their savings plummet in recent months, policyholders will finally get a chance to raise their concerns at the annual general meeting - and there are likely to be many. After an early spike in share prices, they went on a downward slide that saw them plummet to half their value in the space of two years. The sale was abruptly halted, the value of the painting plummeted and the they decided to sue. The hurricanes could trigger an economic downturn, as consumer confidence plummets and spending falls across the country. But they warned that temperatures were set to plummet, with snow falling on higher ground. Synonyms fall steeply/sharply, plunge, tumble, drop/decrease rapidly, go down, sink, slump informal crash, nosedive, take a nosedive nounPlural plummets ˈplʌmɪtˈpləmət 1A steep and rapid fall or drop. the bird has a circular display flight followed by an earthward plummet Example sentencesExamples Since when was dropping from ‘virtually nothing’ to ‘almost nothing at all’ constitute a plummet? I went in to watch the first half, and despite the central character's life going well, in the face adversity, I could sense a plummet in the second half. We all sit as on a pin-point now, ready for a plummet into colder times - even if the climatic cliffs of fall, instead of being in seconds of time, are in thousands of years. Somehow he has turned our headlong plummet into the sign of hope for the future. Evline couldn't even get a word in as her words were blown back into her throat by the massive plummet towards the ground, like a drop on a rollercoaster. What I could really do with right now is a plummet in the Sterling / Dollar rate and then life would be so much better. The building began it's plummet, falling forward. Only one of the creatures lived past its plummet to the ground, staggering about and flapping its giant wings in an attempt to extinguish the bits of flame lapping at its skin. His body was pushed back in the seat by the fall, the plummet sending his adrenaline running through his veins. The plummet in interest in religion was brought home last week when only one Catholic Priest was ordained in Northern Ireland for the year coming. The elevator dropped fast, Roy swearing that he almost rose off of the floor with the plummet, and he wondered how far underground the Defense Monitoring room was. Synonyms tumble, trip, spill, topple, stumble, slip 2A plumb or plumb line. Example sentencesExamples With a heavy plummet, I plumb the depth and set the float so that about half the float's length is protruding above the surface. All we are going to do is put a plummet on and lower it in, tight to the margins, turn sideways to drop it right in at the edge of the vegetation. Origin Late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French plommet 'small sounding lead', diminutive of plomb 'lead'. The current verb sense dates from the 1930s. plumb from Middle English: You can say that something which is not quite perpendicular is out of plumb. This draws on the original meaning of plumb, a ball of lead attached to a string to determine a vertical line, or a plumb line. Another early use was as a term for a sounding lead used for measuring the depth of water. To plumb a body of water was to measure its depth in this way, and is the source of the phrase plumb the depths. The source of plumb is Latin plumbum ‘lead’, also the root of plumber. Medieval plumbers dealt in and worked with lead, and it was not until the 19th century that the word was applied solely to people trained in fitting and repairing water pipes, which were initially all made of lead. The Latin word plumbum is also the basis of plummet, which came into medieval English from Old French and then referred to a plumb line. The use of plummet as a verb meaning ‘to drop straight down rapidly, to plunge’ is more recent, first recorded in the 1850s. An early use of the verb was ‘to let a vertical line fall by means of a plummet’, and the modern sense developed from this. To do something with aplomb (late 18th century) comes from the French phrase à plomb, ‘straight as a plumb line’. Plunge (Late Middle English) also comes from plumbum, this time via Old French plungier ‘to thrust down’. The phrase take the plunge dates from the mid 19th century. Rhymes summit Definition of plummet in US English: plummet verbˈpləmətˈpləmət [no object] 1Fall or drop straight down at high speed. a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully Example sentencesExamples A car careered off a cliff-top road in North Yorkshire, plummeting 100 feet and seriously injuring its York driver. Without warning, he dropped straight down, plummeting toward the ground far below. The construction fell apart as it plummeted down to the dark ground far below. I'm standing on the edge of a 375-foot bridge, ready to plummet toward the water with nothing but a cord keeping me from impact. When he was halfway through, his foot slipped and he plummeted into the river. He said the woman had clipped the near-side kerb and left the road, plummeting at least 200 feet down the ravine. A window cleaner plummeted to his death after falling from a block of flats. The water plunges through a gap in the rock more than 100 feet up, plummeting into a round pool surrounded by a sand beach. Requiring nerves of steel, speed sky diving involves plummeting from a plane at more than 300 mph. Your acts may get you killed, in fact the entire aircraft may plummet to the earth, killing everyone on board. If he fell, he would plummet 60 feet straight down onto the jumble of boulders strewn at the base. The falls emerge from a cave, shoot over a cliff, and plummet 110 feet before disappearing into another chasm. Kate fiddled with her seatbelt for a minute, trying to work out exactly how the thin piece of blue material was supposed to save her life if the plane began to plummet twenty-five thousand feet towards the ground. A Morecambe teenager was airlifted to hospital after plummeting 30 feet onto rocks from a cliff. Starting to gain speed at the end of the hill, she plummeted into a giant stack of rolled up hay. Either side, water plummets over the dizzying drop in great cascading sheets, crashing down on the rocks far below. The bus winds around hair-pin corners on the cliffs overlooking the sea with such break-neck speed that I thought for sure the bus would eventually plummet off the side of the cliff and into the sea! Synonyms plunge, fall headlong, hurtle, nosedive, dive, drop, crash, descend rapidly 1.1 Decrease rapidly in value or amount. hardware sales plummeted Example sentencesExamples She said she knew of people whose property values had plummeted, and others who had been deterred from moving to the area as a result of the threat. The quantity of money circulating in the local economy would suddenly plummet, killing off what remains of local economic life and services. But they warned that temperatures were set to plummet, with snow falling on higher ground. Shareholders saw their holdings plummet in value soon after the launch. After seeing the value of their savings plummet in recent months, policyholders will finally get a chance to raise their concerns at the annual general meeting - and there are likely to be many. The sale was abruptly halted, the value of the painting plummeted and the they decided to sue. Day-time temperatures are frequently in the low twenties centigrade but, once night falls, they plummet to minus ten or even below that in a matter of minutes. She said the value of houses has plummeted so low landlords are able to buy property at rock bottom cost and then rent them out for profit. I don't see the point of spending in the region of £15,000 on a brand new car that'll plummet in value by as much as a third in its first year. They say their sales have plummeted in the last few days as they struggle to restore their reputations. The value of the group has plummeted from more than £1bn to just under £100m today. Industrial production continued to plummet in September, the twelfth straight month of decline, according to a report issued earlier this week by the Federal Reserve. After an early spike in share prices, they went on a downward slide that saw them plummet to half their value in the space of two years. The hurricanes could trigger an economic downturn, as consumer confidence plummets and spending falls across the country. And they plummeted to relegation on the back of five straight defeats at the end of the season, failing to hit the net in any of the last three. In fact circulation plummeted, and when he learned that 80,000 readers had fallen away he knew the game was up. Other residents expressed fears that the village's character would be ruined and house values would plummet. Continuing uncertainty about the area's future meant land values had plummeted. Some Wall Street firms warn the currency's value may plummet quickly. Synonyms fall sharply, fall steeply, plunge, tumble, decrease rapidly, drop rapidly, go down, sink, slump nounˈpləmətˈpləmət 1A steep and rapid fall or drop. Example sentencesExamples I went in to watch the first half, and despite the central character's life going well, in the face adversity, I could sense a plummet in the second half. The plummet in interest in religion was brought home last week when only one Catholic Priest was ordained in Northern Ireland for the year coming. Evline couldn't even get a word in as her words were blown back into her throat by the massive plummet towards the ground, like a drop on a rollercoaster. Somehow he has turned our headlong plummet into the sign of hope for the future. His body was pushed back in the seat by the fall, the plummet sending his adrenaline running through his veins. The building began it's plummet, falling forward. Only one of the creatures lived past its plummet to the ground, staggering about and flapping its giant wings in an attempt to extinguish the bits of flame lapping at its skin. Since when was dropping from ‘virtually nothing’ to ‘almost nothing at all’ constitute a plummet? The elevator dropped fast, Roy swearing that he almost rose off of the floor with the plummet, and he wondered how far underground the Defense Monitoring room was. We all sit as on a pin-point now, ready for a plummet into colder times - even if the climatic cliffs of fall, instead of being in seconds of time, are in thousands of years. What I could really do with right now is a plummet in the Sterling / Dollar rate and then life would be so much better. Synonyms tumble, trip, spill, topple, stumble, slip 2A plumb or plumb line. Example sentencesExamples With a heavy plummet, I plumb the depth and set the float so that about half the float's length is protruding above the surface. All we are going to do is put a plummet on and lower it in, tight to the margins, turn sideways to drop it right in at the edge of the vegetation. Origin Late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French plommet ‘small sounding lead’, diminutive of plomb ‘lead’. The current verb sense dates from the 1930s.
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