Plumbing is a system or network of pipes, tanks, fittings, and other materials needed to build a water supply, heating and sanitation system in a building. Heating, cooling, gas installation, drainage, and drinking water are some of the key components of this project. This function follows the basic rules of pressure, gravity, water level, etc.
List of 50 Plumbing Terms with Definitions
- Airlock: an air bubble that stops liquid flowing through a pipe
- Back up: if a toilet, sink, or drain backs up, or if it is backed up, water cannot flow through it because something is blocking it
- Blockage: something that blocks a tube or pipe
- Carry: if a road, pipe, or wire carries something along it, that thing moves or flows along it
- Cesspit: a large covered hole or container in the ground for collecting the liquid and solid waste that flows from a building
- Clog: to block something such as a pipe, tube, or passage, or to become blocked, so that nothing can get through
- Conduit: a pipe or passage that water flows through to go from one place to another
- Culvert: a very wide pipe that carries water under a road or railway line
- Cutoff: a part of a pipe that can be closed to stop a gas or liquid flowing
- Downpipe: a pipe on the side of a building that carries rainwater down from the roof to the ground
- Drain: a pipe or passage through which water or waste liquid flows away
- Drainage: a system of pipes and passages that take away water or waste liquid from an area
- Drainpipe: a pipe on the side of a building that carries rainwater down from the roof to the ground
- Duct: a pipe or tube in a building that carries something such as air or protects wires
- Eaves trough: an open piece of pipe that is attached to the edge of a roof to carry rainwater away
- Faucet: a water tap on a bath or sink
- Freeze: if a pipe freezes, or if the weather freezes it, the water inside it becomes ice
- Fur up: if a pipe or container for water furs up or is furred up, it becomes covered inside with lime scale
- Gutter: an open piece of pipe that is attached to the edge of a roof to carry rainwater away
- Interconnector: a pipeline that carries gas from one country to another
- Lagoon: an artificial pool for wastewater
- Main: a large pipe or wire used for carrying water, gas, or electricity
- The public supply of water, gas, or electricity
- On tap: if a liquid or gas is on tap, it can be taken from a pipe or container using a tap
- Outfall: the place where water or liquid waste flows out of a pipe
- Outflow: a flow of water, gas etc out of a pipe
- Outlet: a pipe or hole through which gas or liquid flows out
- Pipe: a tube that carries liquid or gas from one place to another
- Pipeline: a long underground pipe that carries water, gas etc from one place to another
- Pipework: a set of pipes that carry water, gas etc around a building
- Plumb: to connect the water pipes in a room or building
- Plumbing: the job of fitting and repairing pipes, water tanks, and other equipment used for supplying and storing water
- Running water: water that is supplied by pipes into a building
- Sanitary: relating to people’s health, especially to the system of supplying water and dealing with human waste
- Sanitation:Conditions and processes relating to people’s health, especially the systems that supply water and deal with human waste
- S-bend: a double curve in a pipe that forms a shape similar to an ‘s’. The american word is s-curve.
- Septic tank: a large container buried under the ground and used for collecting waste from toilets
- Sewage: waste substances, especially waste from people’s bodies, removed from houses and other buildings by a system of large underground pipes called sewers
- Sewer: an underground pipe or passage that carries sewage
- Sewerage: a system of pipes and passages that carry sewage
- Sluice: a passage that water flows along, with a gate called a sluice gate that can be opened or closed to control the flow
- Spigot: a tap on an outdoor water pipe
- Standpipe: an upright water pipe in a street that a tap can be fitted to so that people can get water from it when there is a problem with the supply to their houses
- Stop: to block something such as a pipe or hole so that water or another substance cannot go through it
- Stopcock: something on a pipe that you turn to stop or to start the flow of liquid
- Sump: a low open area in the ground that waste liquid flows into
- Tap: an object used for controlling how much water, gas, or liquid comes out from a pipe or container.
- Tube: a long narrow object like a pipe that liquid or gas can move through
- Waste pipe: a pipe used for carrying used water and waste from a building
- Water: the supply of water to homes and buildings
- Water pipe: a pipe that takes water from one place to another
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