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Plummet
plummet
(plummets, plummeting, plummeted) 1. If an amount, rate, or price plummets, it decreases quickly by a large amount. (JOURNALISM) In Tokyo share prices have plummeted for the sixth successive day... The Prime Minister’s popularity has plummeted to an all-time low in recent weeks... The shares have plummeted from 130p to 2.25p in the past year. = plunge VERB: V, V to n, V from/to/by n 2. If someone or something plummets, they fall very fast towards the ground, usually from a great height. The jet burst into flames and plummeted to the ground... VERB: V prep
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English plomet, from Anglo-French plumet, plomet, from plum lead, lead weight — more at plumb Date: 14th century plumb; also plumb line II. intransitive verb Date: 1937 1. to fall perpendicularly birds ~ed down 2. to drop sharply and abruptly prices ~ed ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a plumb or plumb-line. 2 a sounding-line. 3 a weight attached to a fishing-line to keep the float upright. --v.intr. (plummeted, plummeting) fall or plunge rapidly. Etymology: ME f. OF plommet dimin. (as PLUMB(1)) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. свинцовый груз; гирька, грузило (отвеса или удочки) 2. отвес 3. стр. линейка с отвесом 4. лот 5. груз, тяжесть plummet of cares —- груз забот 6. стремительно падать; погружаться the plane plummeted to earth —- самолет рухнул на землю prices plummeted —- цены резко упали ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) свинцовый отвес; гирька отвеса 2) лот; грузило (удочки) 3) fig. тяжесть, мертвый груз ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to suddenly and quickly go down in value or amount (House prices have plummeted.) 2 to fall very suddenly and quickly from a great height (The plane plummeted towards the earth.) (- compare plunge1) plummy ~ adj 1 a plummy British voice sounds very upper-class and old-fashioned (the plummy Oxford tones of the newsreader) 2 tasting of or containing a lot of plums ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1384, "ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line," from O.Fr. plomet, dim. of plom "sounding lead" (see plumb). The verb is 1626, originally "to fathom, take soundings," from the noun. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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