plumbing
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈplʌmɪŋ/
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- Finally, maintenance staff should endeavor to respond immediately to plumbing complaints from building occupants.
- plumbing system
- indoor plumbing
- plumbing fixture
Like how is that more efficient than like plumbing in a city?
- Like how is that more efficient than like plumbing in a city?
- Access banks are the financial plumbing that connect us and others with money.
- We're not talking about replacing plumbing, ACS, roof, or even exterior.
- She said the worst part was the people still had the plumbing problem.
- It's a full on infrastructure in out in Nevada with no plumbing.
- I am addicted to smooth roads and affordable electricity and indoor plumbing.
- What I'm stunned by is the complete misunderstanding that social media is the current plumbing of word of mouth in our society.
- It was just this ubiquitous utility like gas and plumbing that we all kind of, we didn't get to see that bit, right?
- And so I can tell you that the poverty part, you know, it, it was difficult in the sense that we did not have indoor plumbing.
- It's not like going to town meetings and reading blueprints or for plumbing facilities.
- That means we also all have to strip an item of plumbing.
- Get this stuff verified foundation, electrical system, plumbing system.
- But what it does, it's a kind of in line in your ponds plumbing and it emits when you turn it on.
- But it probably is because they we all share the same plumbing, different toilets, same plumbing.
- And if you are able to shrink that area, then at that point it's just a plumbing problem and the urine is able to get by easier.
Examples
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The money came from block grants and from state grants for sewer and plumbing projects.
Academic text (2009) -
All the plumbing at their place is backing up.
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In the plus column, your plumbing seems to work.
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We have an urgent plumbing issue.
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Also, there would be costs associated with payment for the water and plumbing modifications.
Academic text (1994) -
Almost all of the units in metropolitan areas have all the plumbing facilities.
Academic text (1993) -
Barbara said her family home was rural and that they had no indoor plumbing.
Academic text (2014) -
We've got a working elevator, indoor plumbing.
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As Ed passes the bathroom door, the gurgling noises from the plumbing get louder.
Fiction book (2000) -
The plumber fixed the plumbing issues in my house just in time for the party.
Synonyms
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2.8
Long metal or plastic tubes that carry water, oil and gas
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3.2
A group of pipes and things like taps and toilets that brings water and removes waste
Compounds
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3.2
A group of pipes and things like taps and toilets that brings water and removes waste
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Plumbing comes from the Latin plumbum, meaning 'lead', and shares the same root as plumber. Because many early pipes were made of lead, plumbing came to mean the system of pipes and fixtures in a building.