Directions indicated by the beam of a balance or a hanging plummet are called horizontal or vertical, respectively. |
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In doing this, I levered a rock quickly out from the top section and watched it plummet towards my right foot. |
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Carmine bee-eaters perch on the back of kori bustards and red-crested korhaans plummet from the sky in daring aerobatic mating displays. |
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I felt my heart plummet to the earth's core and sink into the scorching ball of fiery lava with an ominous plonking noise. |
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Seriously restricting food intake, or overeating and then purging, causes levels of vital nutrients in the body to plummet. |
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The quantity of money circulating in the local economy would suddenly plummet, killing off what remains of local economic life and services. |
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There is no automatic reason why share prices as a whole should plummet as a result of the attacks. |
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If it were to slow significantly or stop, Europe could very quickly plummet into a little ice age. |
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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. |
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Temperatures will struggle to reach zero in the daytime and are expected to plummet to around minus 10 degrees centigrade overnight. |
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But they warned that temperatures were set to plummet, with snow falling on higher ground. |
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For some still undetermined reason, the numbers of voles, lemmings, and hares soar in some years and plummet in others. |
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Second, the price of anything that can be manufactured in a silicon fabrication plant will plummet as the number of units shipped increases. |
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I'm starting to feel like my house is nothing but a ticking time bomb waiting to plummet us into financial ruin. |
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Such patients might be trading in the stock market, and might be the type to jump out of the window, if share prices were to plummet sharply. |
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If he fell, he would plummet 60 feet straight down onto the jumble of boulders strewn at the base. |
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Somehow he has turned our headlong plummet into the sign of hope for the future. |
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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. |
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His body was pushed back in the seat by the fall, the plummet sending his adrenaline running through his veins. |
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The falls emerge from a cave, shoot over a cliff, and plummet 110 feet before disappearing into another chasm. |
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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. |
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Your acts may get you killed, in fact the entire aircraft may plummet to the earth, killing everyone on board. |
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But as they plummet earthwards, he sees a crowded school playground just next to the barracks. |
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But even if they had failed in this prudential duty, did the fact that rates subsequently plummet somehow pass them by? |
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He is their second biggest shareholder after them, and if he were to suddenly dump his shares the group's value would plummet. |
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However, something, whether by human error or mechanical fault, went awfully wrong as we saw him plummet to his death from the arena roof. |
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If oil prices plummet, the company can choose to not exercise its option and thus not drill for oil. |
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The livestock population of over seven million head is also expected to plummet. |
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Other residents expressed fears that the village's character would be ruined and house values would plummet. |
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There are few posts that plummet down to the infantile depths of the scale and few that stretch upwards towards unintelligibility. |
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When I tipped my head back, I saw the hawk buckle its wings and plummet behind the trees. |
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Even the finest of rookies may be fated to burn out and plummet to earth as a cold cinder within a season or two. |
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The red-tailed hawks circle and plummet into the valley between our hill and the next. |
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I can manage it half the time when she is somewhat still, but let her move even the tiniest bit and my percentages plummet into the single digits. |
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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. |
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Shareholders saw their holdings plummet in value soon after the launch. |
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Some Wall Street firms warn the currency's value may plummet quickly. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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They are going to see the share value plummet and be resentful beyond words. |
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If the assets continue to plummet, private investors will take a licking but a majority of the debt will end up in the government's hands. |
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The doomed American infantrymen looked on in despair as their last hope started to plummet to earth. |
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But the increasing decline of his fading industrial town threatens to plummet this peddler of dreams into an unfriendly reality. |
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Winter in Afghanistan, while short lived, can see temperatures plummet below freezing. |
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To measure the density of a liquid, the plummet with the bell-shaped chamber is closed and filled with the test liquid. |
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It had been depressed because of fishing pressure, but the stocks coincident with the introduction of salmon farming began to plummet. |
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The debris had fallen from a small plateau above, most crossing the path to plummet onto the sea's edge, 40m below. |
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He draws an example from this week, which has seen the price of oil plummet further, with warnings of a crisis in the North sea industry. |
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This is about people for whom, certainly when prices plummet, sugar exports are of vital importance. |
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About 47 per cent of households had seen their income plummet by more than 50 per cent over the same period. |
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Our sales would plummet big time in this country, and it would affect production and sales in the U. S. too. |
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This could come sooner rather than late, providing that the U. S. Dollar continues to plummet. |
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In turn, the Dollar may plummet as people could lose confidence in the American economy. |
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This caused sales to plummet in Russia, which in 1997 represented around one third of Nestlé's turnover in Eastern Europe. |
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If the projection is correct, some provinces will have a very good year, while others will see farm income levels plummet. |
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However, the rapid deterioration in global economic prospects since mid-year has unsettled commodity markets and caused prices to plummet. |
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Drivers were warned to look out for black ice as they headed for work today after one of the coldest nights saw temperatures plummet to minus 5 degrees centigrade. |
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It is hoped that the trial could lead to the plant becoming a valuable money-spinner for farmers in Scotland, who have seen their earnings plummet in recent years. |
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If there were a Murphy's Law of Economic Collapse, it would hold that as jobs disappear and wages plummet, the price of your dream house will skyrocket. |
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Most of us have seen pictures of people who jump from high bridges tied to a bungee cord that allows them to plummet and then bob up and down like a yo-yo. |
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You plummet to the bottom screaming and are impaled on the spikes. |
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This means that convertible bonds limit risk should the stock price plummet, while limiting exposure to upside price movements of the underlying common stock. |
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For example, in British Columbia, greenhouse gas emissions might go up, while in Saskatchewan, they would plummet. |
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Interest rates will soar, home values will plummet, stock markets will crash, and global economies will crater. |
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Sales would skyrocket with legalization, but prices would plummet, deflating the overall market value. |
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According to the report, trout populations could plummet, while the range of destructive alien species, such as carp and zebra mussels, would likely expand. |
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They abuse drinks or drugs, abuse spouses and loved ones, shirk sleep and plummet into crippling depression. |
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Who heartlessly kicks Aziz Ansari into a hole, causing him to plummet to his death, instead of trying to save him? |
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Many believe the attacks in the US have finally awakened America to the effects of terrorism and that funds raised for the IRA's political allies in Sinn Fein will plummet. |
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It has been snowing for days, and at night temperatures in this mountain hamlet plummet far below zero. |
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Despite eating like a horse recently my weight has continued to plummet. |
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But it would be the quickest way for her to plummet in the approval of the Burmese masses. |
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That strategy was revealed as a loser when print advertising began to plummet, and fall, and then fall again. |
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Even at a high rate of plummet there is very good control at 150 kph accompanied by a lot of wind around the windscreen and a lot of air-frame buffet. |
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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. |
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It is therefore no surprise that while resources for aid and development assistance continue to plummet, military expenditure continues to escalate. |
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The one time he had a buzz cut, he saw his popularity ratings plummet. |
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Lorraine Chase loved every minute of her plummet before chundering in the flora. |
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If world stocks continue to plummet in this risk averse environment, the JPY could continue rising just as the USD is predicted to do if the market falls short of expectations. |
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The value of any remaining properties would plummet, as explained by Brian Wanty in his Aug. |
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His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet. |
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Roper himself will plummet 1,100 m into the canyon in a submersible, or minisubmarine. |
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If it gives U. S. trade partners an excuse to pass their own ''Buy national'' laws, U. S. exports will plummet even more and more U. S. jobs will be lost than this provision would help save. |
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He will rise high up in the sky, to turn and plummet downward, in a spiral, twisting and turning as he comes down. |
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Yes, we are significantly enfeebled by the fact that the government has allowed military spending to plummet, as it has allowed international development spending to plummet. |
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Hence, OPFs are more likely to experience swings in their material living conditions as breadwinners are added and then leave and as incomes plummet or rise. |
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One of the reasons behind this is dirt accumulation on heat exchangers, which caused pioneering systems' efficiency to plummet or even made them cease to function entirely after just a short time. |
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He bound the entire play to his wrecked view of experience and had no qualms about playing up and down the vocal register – in the dark backward and abysm of time we did indeed plummet several throaty fathoms deep. |
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However, European and American airlines saw their profitability plummet, while those in emerging countries were already benefiting from strong economic recovery and an explosion in local demand. |
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It therefore enjoys a very mild climate and is ventilated by the Foehn, a hot, dry wind that causes temperatures to soar and atmospheric humidity to plummet. |
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That is sparking a boomlet of homeowners looking to refinance as long-term mortgage rates plummet. |
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The effect of a terrible review, a critical blog, an unflattering link or a rant from a disgruntled ex-employee sitting in one of the top 10 Google spots can be devastating for a business as click-through rates plummet. |
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Mr Hart, for all his burly, hippy affability, was a cyber-revolutionary, with a snappy list of the effects he expected e-books to have:Books prices plummet. |
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Hang on tight in Ledge or plummet into a bottomless pit. |
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For this year, capital expenditures in that sector are projected to plummet, cut by one-half compared to 2008 according to the Alberta government in its most recent budget. |
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In the end, privatization and contracting out do not save taxpayers' money, as user fees increase, the quality of services plummet and our natural resources deteriorate. |
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In this application, a load alternator is to be provided to enable the volume of test objects to be determined by direct comparison with standard weights and a plummet. |
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An optical plummet, built into either the tribrach or alidade of total station instruments, permits accurate centering over a point. |
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What happens, for example, if the manager becomes ill, if a major supplier can no longer supply, if the competition comes up with a revolutionary change, or prices plummet? |
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Russia's economy is cratering as oil prices plummet. |
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What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet. |
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Roscosmos predicts that only between 20 and 30 fragments of the Phobos probe with a total weight of up to 200 kilograms will survive the re-entry and plummet to Earth. |
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However, Maurice's refusal to ransom several thousand captives taken by the Avars, and his order to the troops to winter in the Danube caused his popularity to plummet. |
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The Minister for Wedgies is proving that she is oblivious to public opinion, working off her own agenda, clueless as to the consequences and keen to plummet to new depths. |
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The Svalbard barnacle goose, which overwinters in the Solway Firth, saw numbers plummet to just 300 by the 1940s but the population recovered to some 30,000 today. |
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The resulting decrease in buyers caused housing prices to plummet. |
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As the rockets pass over the Khakasia, Altai and Tuva Republics, they jettison their booster stages, which plummet back to Earth like blazing meteors. |
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Of course, if you make use of all that power at your disposal then economy figures will plummet but in all honesty I was quite happy pootling along much of the time. |
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