plumbing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈplʌmɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ

Noun

plumbing (countable and uncountable, plural plumbings)

1. 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.
2. The trade or occupation of a plumber.
3. (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.

4. (informal, figuratively) 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.

Synonyms

• (genitourinary system): waterworks (informal)

Related terms

• plumb
• plumber

Translations

pipes, etc, of a water/gas/sewage system in a building

• Armenian: խողովակաշար (hy) (xołovakašar), ջրմուղ (hy) (ǰrmuł)
• Dutch: loodgieterswerk n, riolering (nl) f
• Finnish: putkisto (fi)
• French: tuyauterie (fr) f, plomberie (fr) f
• German: Verrohrung f, Rohrleitung (de) f
• Greek: υδραυλικά (el) n pl (ydravliká)
• Italian: impianto idraulico m, rubinetteria (it) f
• Japanese: 配管 (haikan); (water systems) 上下水道設備 (jōge-suidō-setsubi)

• Macedonian: водовод m (vodovod)
• 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

trade or occupation of a plumber

• Dutch: loodgieterswerk n
• French: plomberie (fr) f
• German: Klempnerei f, Klempnerarbeit f
• Greek: υδραυλικές εργασίες f pl (ydravlikés ergasíes)
• Italian: lavoro di idraulico m

• Japanese: (trade) 配管業 (haikan-gyō); (occupation) 配管工 (haikan-kō)
• Macedonian: водоводџиство n (vodovoddžistvo), водоинсталација f (vodoinstalacija)
• Spanish: fontanería f, plomería f
• Swedish: rörmokeri n
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

informal: system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system

• Finnish: suolisto (fi), suolet (fi), ruoansulatus (fi)
• French: tuyauterie (fr) f

• German: Gedärm (de) n, Unterleib (de) m
• Swedish: mage (sv) c, matsmältning (sv), urinvägarna (sv) c pl

a Murasugi sum

• French: plombage (fr) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Klempnerarbeit f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 배관공사 (baegwan-gongsa)

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 配管 (zh)

See also

• waterworks