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plumbing

[ pluhm-ing ]

noun

  1. the system of pipes and other apparatus for conveying water, liquid wastes, etc., as in a building.
  2. the work or trade of a plumber. plumber.
  3. act of a person who plumbs, as in ascertaining depth.


plumbing

/ ˈplʌmɪŋ /

noun

  1. Also calledplumbery the trade or work of a plumber
  2. the pipes, fixtures, etc, used in a water, drainage, or gas installation
  3. the act or procedure of using a plumb to gauge depth, a vertical, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of plumbing1

First recorded in 1660–70; plumb + -ing 1

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Example Sentences

Co., Missouri Corporation that manufactures plumbing products.

We lived in a tiny trailer that my mother had bought back in 1969, a trailer without running water or indoor plumbing.

They found the building was a shell, with no apparently electricity or plumbing, and no completed inner construction.

He put its science in simple terms  “Imagine you have clogged up plumbing due to debris,” Chatterjee said.

Well, don't you know that there are people in the third world for whom indoor plumbing is but a fantasy?

Even their housekeeping is no longer a disagreeable thing kept out of sight as much as possible, as the plumbing used to be.

The installation of the electric plant in a dwelling house is done in the same way, and as regularly, as the plumbing is.

But if dirty work was done to you, Burkett would have been a handier tool for Fogg than a Stillson wrench in a plumbing job.

Down in the room over the tin and plumbing shop in which I lived, I found it cold indeed.

Nobody came at her instant command to examine the plumbing and see that it was in order for the season.

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