(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.
Potable
Definition:
(a.) Fit to be drunk; drinkable.
(n.) A potable liquid; a beverage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Authors evaluate some parameters relative to the concentration of fluoride in the potable water and in that bottled available in the territory of the Ussl no.
(2) Relating to these results in the first step the development of a theoretical model concerning the different influencing factors (quality of water tubes and other devices, variation of temperature, quality of potable water and the effect of ionic exchangers, indirect contamination by patients and dental staff, nature of dental treatment, utilization frequency of the direct handpieces) appears to be necessary.
(3) The significant association of cases with exposure to the potable hot water supply, and the identification of case and potable water isolates of the same subtype, suggest that the potable hot water was responsible for transmission of disease in this outbreak.
(4) The study results indicate that pigmented bacteria could readily be detected by using plate counting media developed for heterotroph enumeration in potable waters with incubation periods of 7 days.
(5) Longterm gains in this area require attention to behavioral and community development issues, including reduction of the sex and parity related differentials in mortality, enhancement of the status of women, improved female literacy and employment opportunities, improved intrafamilial food distribution patterns, maternity benefits, provision of potable water, intersectoral development to strengthen health care delivery, increased community participation, expanded health services, and enhancement of the pace of development.
(6) Naturally contaminated water can be rendered potable by incubation with cordials at room temperature for 1 h. This may be a way to reduce the risk of water-borne diarrhoea, particularly where the cleanliness of drinking waters cannot be otherwise assured, for example when making up oral rehydration fluids and for travellers in high-risk areas.
(7) L. pneumophila serogroups 1 and 10 were also isolated from the hot potable water supply in the building to which 19 of the 21 patients had been admitted.
(8) Potable water solutions of the salts are diluted with buffer (pH-4) and quantified directly by SPF.
(9) There was a significant association between some risk factors such as: living with cats, ingestion of non potable water and ingestion of raw meat.
(10) To investigate the gastrointestinal effects of employing recycled water as an irrigation source for urban public parks, we studied subjects active in parks irrigated with potable water, nonpotable water of wastewater origin, and nonpotable water of runoff origin.
(11) In this study, various insecticidal and molluscicidal compounds were tested in the laboratory for their toxicity to the intermediate hosts, namely, various species of cyclops, which often live in sources of potable water, such as step-wells, cisterns and ponds.
(12) Recommendations for prevention are intensified surveillance throughout the year,urgent upgrading of potable water supply and concerted effort in public health education especially against the use of river water and the consumption of raw food.
(13) The reservoir for hospital-acquired Legionnaires disease has been shown to be the potable water distribution system.
(14) The lack of potable water and sanitation facilities contributes to the spread of disease and higher infant mortality.
(15) In the United States chlorination of potable water supplies has been the standard method of disinfection for about 75 years.
(16) A contaminant in groundwater represents a threat to a drinking water source but not necessarily a threat to health, if the contaminant's concentration is decreased before it becomes available as potable.
(17) In regions with low fluorine levels in potable water antenatal caries prevention with fluorine preparations should be carried out.
(18) By means of programmed temperature and direct injection, quantitative measurements of 22 components in potable spirits can be simultaneously finished in 50 min.
(19) The strongest evidence has been the similarity of strains recovered from patients and from potable water and the cessation of outbreaks following institution of measures to eradicate Legionella from potable water systems.
(20) Hyperchlorination, raising hot water temperatures to greater than 55 degrees C, and replacing rubber gaskets are useful methods for controlling outbreaks of legionellosis traced to potable water systems but are not yet justified as routine preventative methods in the absence of such an outbreak.