Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Water was dripping from the ceiling, so we figured there was a problem with the plumbing.

    Verrohrung, Rohrleitung, Installation

    санте́хникаsantéxnika

    the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building)

  2. (countable, uncountable)The trade or occupation of a plumber.

    Klempnerei, Klempnerarbeit

  3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.

    My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.

    Gedärm, Unterleib

  4. (countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable)Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.

    This is not scientific research as such: it's just plumbing.

  5. (countable)A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.

  6. (countable, euphemistic, slang, uncountable)The genitourinary system.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The set of Git commands, such as `git hash-object` and `git write-tree`, which control the low-level state of the repository, typically not intended to be used in ordinary situations.

    Coordinate term: porcelain

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
pipes, etc, of a water/gas/sewage system in a building:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
pipes, etc, of a water/gas/sewage system in a building:
trade or occupation of a plumber:
informal: system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system:

Forms

plural: plumbings
Singularplumbing
Pluralplumbings

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building):plumbery
  • utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage:plumbing system
  • measuring the depths of the oceans:bathymetry

Word family

8 related words

See also

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