Translation for "plumb-line" to spanish

Plumb-line

noun

• plomada

Translation examples

plomada noun

the chain was as motionless as a plumb line.
La cadena tenía la inmovilidad de la plomada.

New Orleans abhors a plumb line.
En Nueva Orleans aborrecen la plomada.

Evidently they had been built by eye without benefit of plumb-line.
Evidentemente, los que las edificaron desconocían la utilidad de la plomada.

Make a plumb line by tying a weight to a piece of thread.
Haga una línea de plomada atando un peso a un trozo de hilo.

He was letting down a plumb line, checking that the skyscraper was standing straight.
Soltaba una plomada, para comprobar que el rascacielos mantenía una perfecta verticalidad.

Amy looked at me, her blue eyes steady as a plumb line. ‘No.
Amy me miró fijamente, con sus ojos azules tan fijos e imperturbables como una plomada. —No.

Cardenista bricklayers, zealous conservators of the skill of laying bricks vertically without plumb lines.
albañiles cardenistas celosos conservadores del oficio de poner el ladrillo en vertical y sin plomada.

He noted grimly that he had nothing like a surveyor’s transit, not even a simple plumb line.
Se dio cuenta, desalentado, de que no disponía de un rasero, ni siquiera de una simple plomada.

The bad feeling in his stomach moved up to his chest as he went around the building with the plumb line and spirit level.
El malestar del estómago se le mudó al pecho tras realizar las comprobaciones pertinentes con la plomada y el nivel.