Plumbing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The pipes, fixtures, and other apparatus of a water, gas, or sewage system in a building.
  • n. The work or trade of a plumber.
  • n. Informal An arrangement of bodily vessels or ducts: "treating stroke victims by reversing the plumbing of the body's circulatory system” ( Associated Press).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. The trade or occupation of a plumber.
  • n. A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
  • n. A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.
  • n. The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The art of casting and working in lead (also, by extension, in other metals put to similar uses), and applying it to various purposes connected with buildings, as in roofs, windows, pipes, etc.
  • n. The act or process of ascertaining the depth of anything.
  • n. Lead pipes and other apparatus used for conveying water or other liquids through a building.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. measuring the depths of the oceans
  • n. utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage
  • n. the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    measure    mensuration    measurement    measuring    utility   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    waterworks   
    Verb Stem
    plumb   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    becoming    coming    cumming    drumming    dumbing