Plum : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Plum	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Plum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plum adv exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn: plumb, plum] completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" Synonym(s): clean, plumb, plum n any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone Synonym(s): plum, plum tree any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plum \Plum\, n. Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[umac]me, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. [?], [?]. Cf. {Prune} a dried plum.] 1. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the {Prunus domestica}, and of several other species of {Prunus}; also, the tree itself, usually called {plum tree}. The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. --G. Bentham.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Plum, PA (borough, FIPS 61536) Location: 40.50239 N, 79.75395 W Population (1990): 25609 (9289 housing units) Area: 74.2 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 15239
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)