plumbing是什么意思（plumbing的用法）

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一、plumbing是什么意思

1、plumbing 管路系统，自来水系统

2、来自plumb,铅，-ing,集合名词后缀。因过去自来水管多为铅管，因此，引申词义管路系统， 自来水系统。

二、plumbing的用法

1、plumbing (n.)

2、mid-15c., "the weighting of a fishing line," verbal noun from plumb (v.). Specific meaning "water and drainage pipes" is recorded by 1875, American English. THE apparatus by which the water from a reservoir is carried about over a building and delivered at points convenient for use, is called by the general name of plumbing. The word "plumbing" means lead-work; and it is used to signify this water apparatus of a house because the pipes of which it largely consists are usually made of lead. [Edward Abbott, "Long Look House: A Book for Boys and Girls," Boston, 1877] Alternative plumbery also is mid-15c. Slang meaning "a person's reproductive organs" attested by 1975.

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