plomb — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bob verb To move up and down repeatedly, especially near the surface of water.
- came verb Past tense of "come" — used to describe something arriving or happening in the past.
- fuse noun A safety device containing a component that melts to break an electrical circuit if the current is too high.
- lead noun A soft, heavy, bluish-grey metal, chemical symbol Pb.
- pellet noun A small, hard, compressed lump of material.
- shot noun The firing of a gun, or the result of firing it.
- sinker noun A weight attached to a fishing line to make it sink.
Senses
plomb is used for these senses in English:
- bob The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- came A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.
- fuse (electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
- fuse (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
- lead (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- lead (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- lead shot Small balls of lead, used as projectiles in shotguns, and as a weight in angling, etc.
- pellet A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
bob — full definition
- verb To move up and down repeatedly, especially near the surface of water.
- noun A short haircut where the hair is cut evenly around the head, roughly to jaw or shoulder length.
- noun British informal: a shilling, or more generally a small amount of money.
came — full definition
- verb Past tense of "come" — used to describe something arriving or happening in the past.
- noun A thin strip of metal, traditionally lead, used to join pieces of glass together in a stained-glass window.