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How to pronounce plume in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms preen
Type of set up, clean, make clean, arrange
Type Words
Synonyms dress, preen, primp
Type of deck out, attire, trick out, tog up, tog out, rig out, prink, overdress, gussy up, get up, trick up, fig up, fig out, fancy up, dress up, deck up
Verb group dress, get dressed
Type Words
Synonyms feather, plumage
Type of animal material, body covering
Has types hackle, flight feather, spurious wing, scapular, quill feather, quill, pinion, marabou, down feather, down, contour feather, bastard wing, alula, aftershaft
Type Words
Synonyms congratulate, pride
Type of experience, feel
Type Words
Synonyms fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge
Type of rip off, cheat, chisel
Has types extort, squeeze, gouge, wring, rack
Type Words
Type of adornment
Has types aigret, aigrette, panache
Type Words
Type of form, shape


a plume of smoke.
grass with large plumes.
Type Words
Type of bedight, bedeck, deck


a plumed helmet.
Type Words
Type of form, shape

Examples of plume

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An Audubon Society agent fights a poacher of plume birds in early 1900s Florida.
From the post-gazette.com
You could see one plume of smoke, and then you could see two shortly thereafter.
From the smh.com.au
A plume from a huge volcanic eruption can be seen at the north pole of the moon.
From the sciencedaily.com
That plume of smoke at Salt Lake City International isn't anything to fret over.
From the sltrib.com
For instance, the Turrialba plume has relatively minimal updraft and wind shear.
From the scienceblog.com
A plume of water with TCE has spread at least 2 miles underground from the site.
From the tennessean.com
Beyond the engine nozzle, the plume spreads and the pressure drops very quickly.
From the en.wikipedia.org
That a few more plume birds might be secured to adorn heartless women's bonnets.
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We fly past this massive plume of black smoke, billowing 3,000 feet into the air.
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More examples
  • Anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness; "a plume of smoke"; "grass with large plumes"
  • Overcharge: rip off; ask an unreasonable price
  • A feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
  • Pride: be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school"
  • Deck with a plume; "a plumed helmet"
  • Feather: the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
  • The Air anime series is based on the visual novel Air by the Japanese software company Key. The episodes, produced by the animation studio Kyoto Animation, are directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, written by Fumihiko Shimo, and features character design by Tomoe Aratani who based the designs on Itaru ...
  • Plume is an electronic/punk band formed by Lucas and Catherine Tizon, and originally based in London. Their collaboration was the result of Lucas' love of industrial sound, sound-engineering and his eclectic production technique. The band is now based in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
  • In hydrodynamics, a plume is a column of one fluid moving through another. Several effects control the motion of the fluid, including momentum, diffusion, and buoyancy (for density-driven flows). ...