plume
羽毛,翎羽,翎毛,羽流
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Definitions
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- : a feather.
- : a large, long, or conspicuous feather: the brilliant plume of a peacock.
- : a soft, fluffy feather: the plume of an egret.
- : any plumose part or formation.
- : a feather, a tuft of feathers, or some substitute, worn as an ornament, as on a hat, helmet, etc.
- : a feather or featherlike token of honor or distinction, especially one worn on a helmet.
- : plumage.
- : a vertically or longitudinally moving, rising, or expanding fluid body, as of smoke or water.
- : a visible pattern of smoke resulting from emissions from a stack, flue, or chimney.
- : Also called mantle plume. Geology. a deep-seated upwelling of magma within the earth's mantle.Compare diapir.
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The first was a plume of moisture from Tropical Storm Fausto, far to the south, which managed to travel north to California on the wind and provide just enough moisture to form clouds.
The extent to which fecal aerosol plumes are infecting people with the SARS-CoV-2 virus isn’t known, said Queensland’s Morawska.
The rising plume lifted up record amounts of water and carbon monoxide.
It was one of the largest wildfire smoke plumes ever seen in the stratosphere, says Jessica Smith.
Those winds have never been observed around similar plumes, researchers report online May 30 in Geophysical Research Letters.
For one month in 2013, a British street artist known by the nom de plume of Banksy hypnotized the city of New York.
Borgman has escaped through a tunnel, leaving a plume of smoke in his wake.
Reprinted with the permission of Plume, a member of the Penguin Group.
Mark Owen (the nom de plume for Matt Bissonnette) carefully recounts his life and career as a member of SEAL Team 6.
As ocean currents head eastward across the Pacific, the plume is expected eventually to hit the West Coast of the United States.
It mounted straight as a plume for a little way, until it met the cool air of evening which was beginning to fall.
Each tiny tree was a plume of leaves; the rows stretched out to the hilltop, and over.