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Antonyms for plumbing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : pluhm-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈplʌm ɪŋ


Definition of plumbing

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "the weighting of a fishing line," verbal noun from plumb (v.). Specific meaning "water and drainage pipes" is recorded by 1875, American English.
  • THE apparatus by which the water from a reservoir is carried about over a building and delivered at points convenient for use, is called by the general name of plumbing. The word "plumbing" means lead-work; and it is used to signify this water apparatus of a house because the pipes of which it largely consists are usually made of lead. [Edward Abbott, "Long Look House: A Book for Boys and Girls," Boston, 1877]
  • Alternative plumbery also is mid-15c. Slang meaning "a person's reproductive organs" attested by 1975.
  • verb probe, go into
Example sentences :
  • "There seems to be a leak in the plumbing somewhere on this floor," the man went on.
  • Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
  • You may look over the plumbing in the bathroom whenever you are ready.
  • Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
  • Constructions involved in the house, other than the plumbing fixtures.
  • Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden
  • Leadership has improved its table manners, its plumbing, and its God.
  • Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
  • And you know that it needs everything from plumbing to linen.
  • Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber
  • He mends the plumbing, tunes the piano, types—off stage—and plays the saxophone.
  • Extract from : « The Ghost Breaker » by Paul Dickey
  • "The plumbing could be fixed and the painting also," Flugel retorted.
  • Extract from : « Elkan Lubliner, American » by Montague Glass
  • Wrought Iron is used in the so-called Durham system of plumbing.
  • Extract from : « The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) » by Various
  • The plumbing arrangements, however, were of the most primitive.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Arethusa » by Francis Barton Fox
  • Their eyes were used to plumbing depths, and they had seen it.
  • Extract from : « An Iceland Fisherman » by Pierre Loti

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