English Dictionary
◊ PLUMP
plump
adj : euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom
actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby
babies"; "pleasingly plump" [syn: {buxom}, {chubby}, {embonpoint},
{zaftig}, {zoftig}]
n : the sound of a sudden heavy fall
adv : (informal) straight down especially heavily or abruptly;
"the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the
rock plump into the water"
v 1: drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted" [syn: {plummet}]
2: set down; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked
himself into the sofa" [syn: {plank}, {flump}, {plonk}, {plop},
{plunk}, {plump down}, {plunk down}]
3: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: {fatten}, {fat}, {flesh out}, {fill out}, {plump
out}, {fatten out}, {fatten up}]
4: give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group
or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" [syn: {go}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN PLUM?
PLUM
A {compiler} for a substantial subset of {PL/I} for the
{Univac 1100}, from the {University of Maryland}.
["PL/I Programming with PLUM", M.V. Zelkowitz, Paladin House,
1978].
(1995-02-23)