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Noun
plumbing (countable and uncountable, plural plumbings)
- 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.
- The trade or occupation of a plumber.
- (informal) 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.
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- (informal, figurative) Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.
This is not scientific research as such: it's just plumbing.
- (countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
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pipes, etc, of a water/gas/sewage system in a building
- Armenian: խողովակաշար (hy) (xoġovakašar), ջրմուղ (hy) (ǰrmuġ)
- Bulgarian: водопровод (bg) m (vodoprovod)
- Dutch: loodgieterswerk n, riolering (nl) f
- Finnish: putkisto (fi)
- French: tuyauterie (fr) f, plomberie (fr) f
- German: Verrohrung f, Rohrleitung (de) f, Installation (de) f
- Greek: υδραυλικά (el) n pl (ydravliká)
- Hungarian: vízvezeték szerelés
- Indonesian: ledeng (id), pipa ledeng, saluran pipa
- Italian: impianto idraulico m, rubinetteria (it) f
- Japanese: 配管 (ja) (haikan); (water systems) 上下水道設備 (jōge-suidō-setsubi)
- Macedonian: водовод m (vodovod)
- Polish: instalacja wodno-kanalizacyjna f
- Portuguese: encanamento (pt) m
- Romanian: țevărie (ro)
- Russian: санте́хника (ru) f (santéxnika)
- Serbo-Croatian: vȍdovōd (sh) m
- Spanish: cañería (es) f
- Swedish: ledningsdragning c, rörmokeri n, VVS (sv)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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trade or occupation of a plumber
informal: system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system
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