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How to pronounce “plumbing”
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Pronunciation guide for plumbing
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of plumbing with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Wake up to the Joy of You
AUDIENCE: Indoor plumbing.
- Definition summary
- The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce plumbing
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AUDIENCE: Indoor plumbing.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “plumbing”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
- The trade or occupation of a plumber.
- (informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
- (informal, figurative) Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.
- (countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
- (slang, euphemistic) The genitourinary system.
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