plumbing
IPA: pɫˈʌmɪŋ
noun
- The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
- The trade or occupation of a plumber.
- (informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
- (informal, figurative) Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.
- (countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
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Examples of "plumbing" in Sentences
- The men defaced the plumbings.
- Check the plumbing and the wiring.
- He engaged in the plumbing business.
- Do we need the link to the plumbing
- Plumbing was later added in the 1950s.
- The first bathtub with plumbing was in 1870.
- All wiring and plumbing in the house was replaced.
- Electricity and plumbing was installed in the house.
- The word plumbing came from the Latin word plumbum which means lead.
- The plumbing is designed such that the water creates a jet suction action.
- They're not gung-ho to leave their condos in Boca to go back to the homeland where the plumbing is a bucket and a walk-to biffy.
- A soft, heavy metal that has been used since antiquity (the word "plumbing" comes from the Latin word for lead, plumbum), lead had its heyday in the USA from the 1920s to the 1970s.
- Bookboxed – I absolutely agree – ALL rooms should have such a feature, to make up for the draughts and the uncertain plumbing and all the disadvantages of 400 years worth of history!
- Keep in mind what you are able to do and the amount of time that you have to do it and remind him that some jobs, such as plumbing, is something that he needs to hire a professional to do.
- The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
- Either way, Glocer argued that terminals "are only part of the story" and that the company is doing more business in what he called plumbing for the enterprise: "The data feeds that come into the basement at 85 Broad st".
- Edison didn't invent the light bulb -- he invented one * type* of light bulb. the bulb had been already invented. indoor plumbing is over 2000 years old. electricity came along long before Ben Franklin and gang -- it just didn't get used much. and so on. perhaps the biggest mistake people make is to equate "invention" with "progress" or "improvement".