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plumbing

/pluhm-ing/US // ˈplʌm ɪŋ //UK // (ˈplʌmɪŋ) //

水暖,水管,水暖设施,水暖工程

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the system of pipes and other apparatus for conveying water, liquid wastes, etc., as in a building.
    • : the work or trade of a plumber.
    • : act of a person who plumbs, as in ascertaining depth.

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Examples

  • According to McCauley, these regulatory developments are helping to initiate a major update to the country’s financial plumbing.

  • Renting, living in a mobile home and earning less than the local median income are all associated with plumbing problems.

  • This is largely because the company’s focus is on providing back-end financial plumbing to other firms, including digital bank Revolut.

  • Mend all cracks in the walls, repair all plumbing and replace cracked tiles.

  • Those patterns tell me there’s something wrong with the plumbing.

  • Co., Missouri Corporation that manufactures plumbing products.

  • We lived in a tiny trailer that my mother had bought back in 1969, a trailer without running water or indoor plumbing.

  • They found the building was a shell, with no apparently electricity or plumbing, and no completed inner construction.

  • He put its science in simple terms  “Imagine you have clogged up plumbing due to debris,” Chatterjee said.

  • Well, don't you know that there are people in the third world for whom indoor plumbing is but a fantasy?

  • Even their housekeeping is no longer a disagreeable thing kept out of sight as much as possible, as the plumbing used to be.

  • The installation of the electric plant in a dwelling house is done in the same way, and as regularly, as the plumbing is.

  • But if dirty work was done to you, Burkett would have been a handier tool for Fogg than a Stillson wrench in a plumbing job.

  • Down in the room over the tin and plumbing shop in which I lived, I found it cold indeed.

  • Nobody came at her instant command to examine the plumbing and see that it was in order for the season.