Synonyms of the word

plumb

• adj. Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
• adj. (cricket) Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of his wicket and should…
• adv. In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
• adv. (informal) Squarely, directly; completely.
• n. A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical…
• n. (nautical) A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
• v. To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
• v. To attach to a water supply and drain.
• v. To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
• v. To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
• v. To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
• v. (dated) To seal something with lead.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
• v. (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
• v. (US, colloquial, figuratively, obsolete) To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
• v. (nautical) To position vertically above or below.

adjust

• v. (transitive) To modify.
• v. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
• v. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
• v. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

bob

• v. (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at…
• v. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
• v. To curtsy.
• v. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
• n. A bobbing motion.
• n. A bobber.
• n. A curtsy.
• n. A bob haircut.
• n. Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when…
• n. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
• n. The docked tail of a horse.
• n. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
• n. The short runner of a sled.
• n. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
• n. A working beam in a steam engine.
• n. A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
• n. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
• n. (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
• n. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
• n. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
• v. (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
• v. (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
• v. Short form of bobsleigh.
• n. (Kenya, slang ; UK and Australia, historical, dated slang) A shilling.
• n. (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
• n. (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
• n. Abbreviation of shishkabob.
• n. (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted…

burden

• n. A heavy load.
• n. A responsibility, onus.
• n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
• v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
• n. The drone of a bagpipe.
• n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

burthen

• n. (obsolete, nautical) The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in…
• n. Archaic spelling of burden.
• v. Archaic spelling of burden.

clean

• adj. (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
• adj. (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
• adj. Smooth, exact, and performed well.
• adj. (obsolete) Total; utter.
• adj. (informal) Cool or neat.
• adj. (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
• adj. That does not damage the environment.
• adj. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
• adj. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
• adj. Well-proportioned; shapely.
• adj. (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
• n. Removal of dirt.
• n. (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground…
• v. (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
• v. (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
• v. (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
• v. (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure…
• v. (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting…
• v. To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
• adv. Fully and completely.

correct

• adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
• adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
• v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
• v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

explore

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
• v. (transitive) To examine or investigate something systematically.
• v. (transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.
• v. (transitive) To (seek) experience first hand.
• v. (intransitive) To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
• v. (intransitive) To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.
• n. (colloquial) An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

perpendicular

• adj. (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
• n. (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
• n. A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.

plum

• n. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.
• n. The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
• n. A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
• n. A desirable thing.
• n. (archaic) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or…
• n. (dated) A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.
• n. A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
• n. (pejorative) A fool, idiot.
• n. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
• n. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including,…
• n. The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
• n. The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums.
• n. The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits.
• adj. (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
• adj. (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
• adj. Plumb.
• adv. Completely; utterly.
• v. (mining) To plumb.

plummet

• n. (archaic) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
• n. (archaic) A plumb bob or a plumb line.
• n. (archaic) Hence, any weight.
• n. (archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
• n. a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
• n. Violent or dramatic fall.
• n. (figuratively) decline; fall; drop.
• v. (intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.

quantify

• v. To assign a quantity to.
• v. To determine the value of (a variable or expression).

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

vertical

• adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular…
• adj. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular,…
• adj. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
• adj. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
• n. A vertex or zenith.
• n. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
• n. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
• n. A vertical component of a structure.
• n. (marketing) A vertical market.

weight

• n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical…
• n. An object used to make something heavier.
• n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
• n. Importance or influence.
• n. (weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
• n. (physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
• n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
• n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
• n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
• n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
• n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
• n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
• n. Pressure; burden.
• n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
• v. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• v. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
• v. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
• v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.