What's the difference between plumbing and trade?

Plumbing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plumb
  • (n.) The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.
  • (n.) The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was born into a Britain where the majority of the population didn't have a telephone, the wireless or indoor plumbing.
  • (2) Samples from plumbing fixtures in a hospital yielded legionellae which were "super"-chlorine resistant when assayed under natural conditions.
  • (3) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
  • (4) Plumbing systems consisting of copper showed an inhibitory effect on Legionella during the first five years, whereas no effect could be detected in older systems (Fig.
  • (5) Soon, reformers known as “sanitarians” focused their attention on replacing the haphazard and unsanitary plumbing arrangements in homes and workplaces with technologically advanced public sewer systems.
  • (6) A pump will break or the plumbing will be stopped up.
  • (7) But love him or hate him, by delivering the parcels and fixing the plumbing, WVM kept the economy ticking over.
  • (8) Sixteen control samples taken from the connecting plumbing system at distant locations, after periods of stagnation which result in DU bacterial contamination, were negative.
  • (9) Twitter and Facebook are plumbed in to compare your scores to friends, and there is also an untimed mode for practice.
  • (10) Since at least 10% of our household plumbing systems are made up of lead pipes and 75%, of galvanized iron pipes that contain lead, the heavy metals are acquired from the water used to prepare the formula.
  • (11) Acute hepatitis E was associated with recent contact with a family member or acquaintance with jaundice and the presence of indoor plumbing.
  • (12) Later, the group raised €1,000 to have it plumbed into the caravan and a septic tank dug, so the toilet works.
  • (13) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
  • (14) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
  • (15) In the seventh a bodyshot and an uppercut clearly had the 36-year-old in trouble before a right hook landed plumb on Cunningham's chin and the American had no chance of beating the count.
  • (16) Because back home, he says, he couldn’t put food on the table; he’d get only two plumbing jobs a month.
  • (17) Because plumbing leaks at the seams, and houses leak at the doorframes, and lie-lows lose air through their valves.
  • (18) Ultimately, when the next recession strikes, central banks in advanced economies will have no choice but to plumb the zero lower bound once again while they choose among four unappealing options.
  • (19) Bin Hammam said a key part of his pitch would be a drive to build bridges with the club game after relations between Fifa and the most powerful clubs recently plumbed new depths following a series of clashes over the international calendar and compensation.
  • (20) Inspection of the pool revealed significant plumbing defects which had allowed ingress of sewage from the main sewer into the circulating pool water.

Trade


Definition:

  • (v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
  • (v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
  • (v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
  • (v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
  • (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
  • (v.) Instruments of any occupation.
  • (v.) A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
  • (v.) The trade winds.
  • (v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
  • (v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
  • (v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
  • (v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
  • (v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
  • () imp. of Tread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (2) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
  • (3) Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
  • (4) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
  • (5) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
  • (6) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
  • (7) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
  • (8) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (9) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (10) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
  • (11) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
  • (12) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
  • (13) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (14) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
  • (15) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
  • (16) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
  • (17) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (18) According to research by Tiga, the trade body representing the UK games industry, women make up just 12% of the development workforce in Britain – a percentage reflected by similar surveys in the US and Canada.
  • (19) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
  • (20) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.