Plume

Definition: Plume

Plume

Noun

1. A feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament.

2. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds.

Verb

1. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.

2. Be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school".

3. Deck with a plume, as of a helmet.

4. Clean with one's bill, of birds.

5. Form a plume: "The chimneys were pluming the sky"; "The engine was pluming black smoke".

6. Dress or groom with elaborate care; "She likes to dress when going to the opera".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "plume" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Environment

Health

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Transportation

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Synonyms: Plume

Misnomer

Nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy.

Ornament

Tassel, knot; shoulder knot, apaulette, epaulet, aigulet, frog; star, rosette, bow; feather, plume, pompom, panache, aigrette.

Pride

Pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself; (vanity).

Roughness

Plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee.

Writing

Stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink.

Crosswords: Plume

French (feather, nib, pen, pencil, plume).

Fifi la plume (1965)

Plume la poule (1947)

Chouchou poids plume (1932)

Le Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume (1913)

Qui plume la lune?... (1999)

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Books

• White Plume Mountain (Greyhawk) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Desoto Plume (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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Saharan Dust Plume as Big as Spain. Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope has snapped a picture of a 400-kilometer-high (250-mile-high) plume of ... Credit: NASA.

Sequence of images showing evidence for a plume near the terminator of Jupiter at the time of ... Credit: NASA.

New volcanic plume extending above Io's surface. Credit: NASA.

Bottom mounted current meter being deployed from FERREL Project to determine path of brine plume from salt dome solution and pumping Studies during formation of Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A volcanic eruption originating at Isla Fernandina in the Galapagos Islands is evident in this image. The arrow points to a volcanic plume approximately 75 miles long cutting across other cloud structures. This image, obtained from the NOAA-2 satellite, was the first evidence of this volcanic eruption. This image demonstrated the power of modern satellites to monitor volcanoes. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Smoke plume from Hull Mountain fire. Credit: Tim Haller.

Smart Captain Plume, much like a bird of prey,... / J. Collier del. inv. T. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Nestled far up 'mong the eternal hills and snow, Silver Plume, Colo., U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Silver Plume, Colorado. Ghost mining town. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "plume": cooling tower plume ♦ coupe de plume ♦ crested plumed having a decorative plume ♦ desert plume ♦ Nom de plume ♦ osprey plume ♦ ostrich plume ♦ plume bird ♦ plume corals ♦ plume grass ♦ plume moth ♦ plume nutmeg ♦ plume of cloud ♦ plume of smoke ♦ plume oneself ♦ plume oneself on ♦ plume oneself upon ♦ plume poppy ♦ plume thistle ♦ scarlet plume ♦ Silver Plume. Additional references.

Beginning with "plume": plume-like, plume-lithosphere, plume-related, plume-rise.

Ending with "plume": nom-de-plume.

Afrikaans

veer (feather, pen). (various references)

Albanian

pupël (down, eider down, feather, feathering, panache, plumage, quill, shuttlecock, vane), pendë (barrage, dam, dike, embankment, feather, fin, mole, pinion, plumage, quill, seawall, sluice, span, Weir, yoke), xhufkë (aigrette, crest, pompon, shag, tassel, thrum, topknot, toupee, tuft), vë pupla, tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, flock, funiculus, group, herd, mass, muster, parcel, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, troop, truss, tuft, tussock, wad), shtëllungë (bushy, cloud, Eddy, fleece, hank, tow), lëmon pendët. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملس (roll, sleek, smooth, smoothie, stroke), ‏مجموعة من الريش, ‏تفاخر (blow, boast, boastfulness, brag, flaunt, ostentation, rodomontade, shoot a line, show, show off, splurge, swell, vaporize), ‏تبجح (bluster, blustery, boast, boastfulness, brag, bravado, crow, gasconade, jactitation, rant, shoot a line, swagger, swank, swell, talk big, vaporize, vaunt), ‏تباهى (blow, boast, brag, give oneself airs, make a hit, parade, pride, show off, take a pride, take a pride in, talk big), ‏زين بالريش, ‏علامة إمتياز, ‏صقل (buff, buffer, burn, burnish, cultivate, enamel, furbish, gloss, glossiness, grind, lacquer, perfect, planish, polish, refine, rumble, scour, shine, sleek, smooth, stone), ‏ريشة في القبعة للزينة, ‏ريشة كبيرة, ‏ريشة (feather, paddle, pencil, pinnule, quill), ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy, trim). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стълбче (baluster, banister, pedicle, peduncle, stalk, stylus), струйка, украсявам с пера, качулка на птица, кичур пера, кича с пера, китка пера, оскубвам (deplume, displume, fleece, gaff, pick, pluck, pluck out, pull, rush, shear, tear out), егрета (aigrette, egret), перушина (coat, feather, feathering, plumage), перо (entry, feather, nib, pen), плюмаж (aigrette, crest, panache), дълга пухкава опашка. (various references)

Chinese 

羽毛 (feather, plumage). (various references)

Czech

peří (feather, plumage), péro (quill), tříbit si peří, ozdobit peřím, chochol (crest), chlubit se (boast, flaunt, pride oneself, show off, vaunt). (various references)

Danish

plume, vandsoejle (column, water column), røgfane (exhaust plume), luftstrøm (air flow, air jet, air stream, airflow), køletårnsfane (cooling tower plume), fjer (feather), fjeder (feather, pen, spring), fane (flag, standard). (various references)

Dutch

pluim (feather, pen, praise). (various references)

Faeroese

pennur (feather, pen), fjøður (feather, pen, spring). (various references)

Farsi 

پرکلاه زنان , پرارایشی , پر (Ample, Full, Populous, Rife), تل (Hill), ارایش دادن (Able, Adorn, Beautify, Decorate, Embellish, Garnish, Lard), باپراراستن . (various references)

Finnish

pluumi, sulkatöyhtö, sulka (feather), savuviuhka (exhaust plume), savuvana (exhaust plume), kynä (feather, pen, pencil, quill), höyhentöyhtö. (various references)

French

plume, panache. (various references)

Frisian

plom (feather, pen), pinne (feather, pen), fear (feather, ferry, pen, spring). (various references)

German

Feder (feather, nib, pen, plumes, quill, quills, spring). (various references)

Greek 

φτερό (feather, mudguard, wing), λοφίο (aigrette, crest). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקשט ב� וצות, ל�"ת�'אות ב- (pride oneself on, take a pride in), � וצ�" (feather, pinion, quill). (various references)

Hungarian

toll (feather, pen, plumage), tollazat (feather, feathering, plumage), tollforgó (panache), sisakforgó, dísztoll, hajcsomó (mop of hair, toupee, tuft, tussock), jutalom (accolade, award, consideration, douceur, gratification, guerdon, meed, poundage, premium, prise, prize, recompense, remuneration, requital, reward, sanction), napkorongnyúlvány, pehely (eiderdown, flake, flakes, floccule, flock, floss, flue, fluff, fuzz, nap, ooze, pappus), díj (allowance, award, bonus, charge, dues, fee, price, prise, prize, remuneration, stake, tax, toll), sisakbokréta, szőrcsomó (floss), tollacska (plumelet), tollbokréta, tolldísz, piheszőr. (various references)

Indonesian

sombong (assertive, bigheaded, boastful, egotistic, haughty, proud, uppish, vain, vainglorious), bulu-bulu. (various references)

Italian

penna (feather, pen, quill), pennacchio (panache, tassel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

羽　 (feather, wing), 羽 (counter for birds, counter for rabbits, feather, wing), 前立て (crest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まえ� て (crest), はね (feather, shuttlecock, splashes, wing). (various references)

Lombard

penna (feather, pen). (various references)

Manx

dossan fedjag, cur dossan fedjag er. (various references)

Norwegian

penn (feather, pen). (various references)

Pig Latin

umeplay.(various references)

Polish

pióro (feather, pen). (various references)

Portuguese

pluma (crest, egret, feather). (various references)

Romanian

penaj (coat, feather, feathering, plumage), panã (arrow, break down, chock, cleat, cotter, failure, feather, Gib, injury, jaw, peg, pen, pick, pinion, plug, puncture, quill, quill pen, Spike, wedge), toc (case, casement, casing, cover, feather, holster, housing, knock, pen, penholder, sheath, smack, stalk, tap), acoperi cu pene (feather), a-şi curãţa penele, împodobi cu un panaş. (various references)

Russian 

перо (feather, nib, pen, quill, styli, stylus). (various references)

Scottish

peann (a pen, feather, pen), ite (a feather, feather, fin of a fish, pen, quill), dos (a bush, bush, thicket, tuft). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pero (feather, pen, quill, style), perjanica (crest, panache), imati perje. (various references)

Spanish

pluma (feather, hackle, pen, penmanship, quill, writing), penacho (aigrette, crest, tuft). (various references)

Sranan

feda (feather). (various references)

Swahili

kalamu (feather, pen, pencil). (various references)

Swedish

plym (feather, pen), fjäder (feather, pen, spring). (various references)

Tagalog

balahíbo (feather). (various references)

Thai

นามปากกา (nom de plume). (various references)

Turkish

tüylerle süslemek, tüylerini düzeltmek (preen), tüy (down, feather, fluff, hair, nap, pile, quill, villus), nişan (affiance, badge, betrothal, brand, butt, decoration, device, engagement, ensign, espousal, gong, Mark, medal, order, sign, target), kuş tüyü (down, feather, fuzz), bulut (cloud), ödül (award, guerdon, meed, premium, prize, purse, recompense, remuneration, requital, reward). (various references)

Ukrainian

чистити пір'я, оперення (dress, plumage), прикрашати пір'ям, перо (feather, pen, quill), плюмаж (aigrette, feather, panache). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật nhẹ như lông chim, sáo mượn lông công, lông chim (bird-cage). (various references)

Welsh

pluo (deplume, pluck). (various references)

Yucatec

k'uk'um (feather). (various references)

caesarie, caesariem, caesaries, crine, crinem, crines, crinibus, crinis, crista, pluma, plumas, plumis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "plume": plumed, plumelet, plumelets, plumeria, plumerias, plumes. (additional references)

Words ending with "plume": deplume, displume. (additional references)

Words containing "plume": deplumed, deplumes, displumed, displumes, peplumed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Plume" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blume, lume, lumme, paume, pelame, pelume, pium, piuma, plama, Plim, plime, plimm, ploem, plue, pluge, pluke, plumer, plumery, Plumet, plumit, Plumley, plumn, Pluna, plune, plure, plusmn, plute, pluxe, pulje, Pulne, pumi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lump, mule, plum, pule.

-2 letters: elm, emu, leu, lum, mel, pul, ump.

-3 letters: el, em, me, mu, pe, um, up.

+1 letter: ampule, lumped, lumpen, lumper, peplum, pileum, plenum, plumed, plumes, pumelo, pummel, rumple.

+2 letters: ampoule, ampules, clumped, crumple, deplume, flumped, impulse, lumpens, lumpers, lumpier, peplums, plenums, plumage, plumate, plumbed, plumber, plumier, plummet, plumose, plumped, plumpen, plumper, plumule, pumelos, pummelo, pummels, replumb, rumpled, rumples, slumped.

+3 letters: amplexus, ampoules, ampullae, clumpier, crumpled, crumples, deplumed, deplumes, displume, empurple, exemplum, glumpier, humpless, impulsed, impulses, impurely, lumpiest, multiped, multiple, peculium, pendulum, peplumed, plectrum, plumaged, plumages, plumbers, plumbery, plumelet, plumeria, plumiest, plumiped, plumlike, plummets, plummier, plumpens, plumpers, plumpest, plumules, promulge, pummeled, pummelos, pumpless, pumplike, replumbs, rumpless, rumplier, shlumped, speculum, splenium, tumpline.