(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.
Waterworks
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This information has been collected in Finland retrospectively from waterworks, and will be correlated with the Finnish Cancer Registry data.
(2) Removal of humus by anionic exchange is a potential process for small waterworks in Norway.
(3) For the sake of the natural character of water catchment and in order not to degrade the waterworks to mere "water-manufacturers", we are all requested to handle thoroughly and cautiously water-endangering substances.
(4) Finished drinking water samples were collected from 384 waterworks that supply 70.9% of the Norwegian population.
(5) We report a case, a 28-year-old male waterworks technician, who developed dyspnea, cough, chest pain, metallic taste and ache in the whole body three hours after heating approximately 30 ml of liquid mercury during an experiment.
(6) In the light of the current very low incidence of indigenous typhoid fever, it is suggested that the examination of relevant waterworks staff and prospective employees for carriage of the agents of potentially waterborne disease should be done selectively by appropriate laboratory tests only when indications for them are revealed by medical assessment.
(7) The Author has collaborate with the Anthos advised some sagacity and modifications, especially at the waterworks, for render "surgical" a regular odontological compact instrument.
(8) Travel tip If you’re with the kids – or just a fan of urban planning – the Waterworks Museum at Friedrichshagen has a fascinating exhibition set in a 19th-century machine hall.
(9) A second experiment was performed at a municipal waterworks in order to assess the role of water treatment processes in the production of mutagenic compounds.
(10) The waterworks founded during the second half of the last century obtained the raw water exclusively from the Ruhr-valley; they were responsible for the water supply of the industrial area situated on the right of the river Rhine.
(11) Additionally, we examined 8 samples from the waterworks of Mannheim and 4 samples from a lake in the Mannheim area.
(12) Her husband and 19-year-old son both belong to a union and have worked on underground waterworks, but both were laid off after Hurricane Sandy struck New York.
(13) Although it does not appear justified to close down waterworks effective 1 October 1989 if these limit values are exceeded, it must be carefully considered up to which concentration--depending on the individual substance--special permissions can be granted for a limited period of time.
(14) Water samples were collected from 384 waterworks that supply 70.9% of the Norwegian population.
(15) Two out of 8 untreated water samples of the waterworks of Mannheim showed mutagenic effects in the undiluted water following metabolic activation.
(16) Naturally grown cell material of Crenothrix polyspora from the well of a waterworks was studied by means of phase-contrast and Nomarski interference microscopy as well as by transmission electron microscopy.
(17) The waterworks pre-purified the water from the Ruhr before infiltration into the underground in order to increase the quantity and quality of the recharged water.
(18) This development was caused by a sudden increase of the Aeromonas density in the drinking water of the municipal Dune Waterworks of The Hague and reports about the possible health significance of these organisms in drinking water.
(19) Over the past five years, Greece has faltered on promises to sell vital parts of its infrastructure – ports, airports, marinas and waterworks – in exchange for billions of euros in loans.
(20) The contribution reports on two contamination cases, i.e., a waterwork "Durlacher Wald" and an industrial plant "Oberrheingraben" which were remedied using biological and physico-chemical methods.