What's the difference between electrician and plumber?

Electrician


Definition:

  • (n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
  • (2) Occupational groups at excess risk include dentists who have an increased risk of all types of brain tumors and electricians whose excess risk is limited to gliomas.
  • (3) From electricians and carpenters, everyone should be able to take card and make money,” said de Geer.
  • (4) Seven of 14 electricians had symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (5) In three visits to the area over the last two weeks, almost all the voters I spoke to began each conversation by saying, unprompted, that they were concerned about immigration – the electrician complaining about wages being undercut by eastern European workers, the parents unable to get their offspring into local primary schools because immigrant children were taking up scarce places, the patients waiting for a GP appointment in a waiting room filled with foreign chatter.
  • (6) That made me laugh: in one scene in Mahler, I had been required to stand on a stepladder, with an electrician holding me up by keeping a large hand on my bottom.
  • (7) Vishnu Tatikonda, a 33-year-old electrician from Karimnagar district in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said he paid 65,000 INR (£645) to an agent in India for a visa, tickets and a placement with a subcontractor for a major construction firm in Qatar who would pay him a monthly salary of 1,200 QAR (£205).
  • (8) Only one occupation, electrician's mate, emerged with a borderline statistically significant excess risk of leukemia (standardized incidence ratio compared with the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program population = 2.4, 95% confidence interval 1.0-5.0).
  • (9) But we'd moved by then, up a hill, and it was quite windblown and awkward and all the electricians had to carry him up in his wheelchair like something from a Herzog movie."
  • (10) The 53-year-old electrician, who has stage 4 skin cancer, as well as secondary lung cancer, finds the 45 minutes of reflexology he receives during his visits “very calming and very helpful with my energy levels, which have been spinning around all over the place”.
  • (11) Shorter, a retired electrician from Kent, began singing for the first time after joining the care home’s newly formed choir last year.
  • (12) Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for pleural mesotheliomas were found to increase among plumbers and pipefitters over this period, whereas those for mechanics, electricians, painters, and paperhangers remained relatively stable.
  • (13) He says his local Warracknabeal football league is finding it increasingly difficult to field teams, as skilled labourers – especially tradesman, such as electricians and carpenters – are lured to the cities and regional centres by the prospect of steady work and higher pay.
  • (14) Electricians were at slightly increased risk for adenocarcinoma (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 0.7,2.8) and "other" or mixed cell types of lung cancer (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 0.8,2.9) but at decreased risk for small cell (OR = 0.8; 95% CI = 0.3,2.0) and squamous cell (OR = 0.8; 95% CI = 0.4,1.6) tumors.
  • (15) Risk of lung cancer was increased significantly for electricians; sheetmetal workers and tinsmiths; bookbinders and related printing trade workers; cranemen, derrickmen, and hoistmen; moulders, heat treaters, annealers and other heated metal workers; and construction labourers.
  • (16) The study was limited by the lack of accurate job exposure details, and there was no record of smoking habits, but welders and caulkers showed a higher standardised mortality ratio for all causes, lung cancer, ischaemic heart disease, pneumonia, and accidents than platers and electricians.
  • (17) For much of Tuesday’s match, he seemed less like a national football coach, and more like a friendly electrician holding court at a weekend family barbecue, somewhere in Arncliffe or Northcote.
  • (18) Yohannes Asebe, a 33-year-old electrician from Addis Ababa, says: “We are not being ruled properly.
  • (19) The plumbers had significantly lower TLC, MEF25, MEF50, closing volume and closing capacity in comparison to 23 never smoking electricians without asbestos exposure.
  • (20) Serum lipid concentrations of lumberjacks whose occupational physical activity is most vigorous were compared with those of electricians.

Plumber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
  • (2) T-shirts were rush-printed overnight, showing his bald, burly head above the logo: "Hi, I'm Joe Plumber and Obama is a punk."
  • (3) Samuel Wurzelbacher, who became famous during the 2008 election as “Joe the Plumber” after he had a heated discussion with Obama on the campaign trail, was championed by presidential nominee John McCain but later made contentious remarks such as a call to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting”.
  • (4) PMRs for malignancies of the stomach, kidney, brain, and lymphopoietic system were also elevated, especially among plumbers.
  • (5) Having failed to get into Rada, Wesker embarked on a series of menial jobs: bookseller's assistant, plumber's mate and, at the Bell hotel in Norwich, kitchen porter.
  • (6) Proportionate occupational mortality analysis, using all the mentioned causes on the Washington State male death records 1968-1984, identified an excess of rheumatoid arthritis in farmers, and asbestosis in plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters.
  • (7) Builders and plumbers want to cut corners by taking their final journey in a white van, while farmers fancy a send-off on a horse-drawn cart, tractor or even a specially manufactured Land Rover hearse and matching limousine.
  • (8) You're going to have to get your Marigolds on and deal with it yourself until the plumber arrives.
  • (9) The court heard that 20 minutes before Kristy died, the council sent a plumber to the flat who heard splashing in the bathroom, but nothing else suspicious.
  • (10) Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for pleural mesotheliomas were found to increase among plumbers and pipefitters over this period, whereas those for mechanics, electricians, painters, and paperhangers remained relatively stable.
  • (11) The 2008 US presidential election belongs to just one man: Joe the Plumber.
  • (12) Speaking in an ITV hustings, Reckless suggested that some European migrants, such as a Polish plumber, should only be allowed to stay for a fixed period on a work visa if the UK left the EU as advocated by his party.
  • (13) He was born in 1932 in the East End of London and has worked as a plumber’s mate, kitchen porter, and pastry-cook.
  • (14) If you can find a good, trustworthy local plumber – and there are plenty about – this has to be the best option.
  • (15) The 30-year-old plumber leans forward and carefully pours the coffee his mother has just brought in from the kitchen.
  • (16) Some people would say, '£89,000 a year – it's a lot of money for a plumber' but you do a lot of hours for that: at least 70 a week.
  • (17) A previously healthy 27 year-old male plumber presented with six days of fever, nausea, vomiting, malaise and headache.
  • (18) The plumbers had significantly lower TLC, MEF25, MEF50, closing volume and closing capacity in comparison to 23 never smoking electricians without asbestos exposure.
  • (19) And it's a law of pub nature that pub toilets only get blocked on a Friday or Saturday night when you can't get a plumber.
  • (20) It has been argued that American writers do not drink any more than American plumbers.