plummet
A violent or dramatic fallA violent or dramatic fall.
» Home prices are plummeting.
Die Immobilienpreise gehen in den Keller.
Значение
значений: 5A violent or dramatic fall.
Sturz, Absturz, Sturzflug
(переносно)A decline; a fall; a drop.
Abfall, Absturz, Rickgang
(архаичное)A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
Lot, Blei, Senker
лотlot, отве́сotvés
the metal bob of a plumb line
(архаичное)Hence, any weight.
Gewicht, Bleigewicht
(архаичное)A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).
Примеры
предложений: 26Home prices are plummeting.
deDie Immobilienpreise gehen in den Keller.
Tom's grades soon plummeted.
Slow economic recovery has sent auto sales plummeting.
Медленный экономический рост обвалил продажи автомобилей.
The treatment's acceptability plummeted by nearly 96% that year after researchers discovered disfiguring side effects.
Положительное отношение к этой методике упало на 96% в тот же год, после того как исследователи обнаружили её обезображивающие побочные эффекты.
Their readership plummeted to almost zero.
deIhr Leserkreis sank fast bis auf Null ab.
Переводы
языков: 7По значениям 1
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Происхождение
From Middle English plommet (“ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, frFrom Middle English plommet (“ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (“lead, sounding lead”), from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The verb is first recorded in 1626, originally meaning “to fathom, take soundings", from the noun.
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