Plumbing vs Piping - What's the difference?
plumbing | piping |
(uncountable) 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.
(uncountable) The trade or occupation of a plumber.
(uncountable, informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
(countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
The sound of musical pipes.
An act of making music or noise with pipes.
A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
Piped icing on a cake.
(botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
(botany) propagation by cuttings
High-pitched.
As nouns the difference between plumbing and piping
is that plumbing is 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 while piping is the process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.As a verb piping is
present participle of lang=en.As an adjective piping is
high-pitched.plumbing
English
Noun
(en noun)- My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.
Synonyms
* (genitourinary system) waterworks (informal)See also
* waterworkspiping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- the piping of a house
Adjective
(-)- His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.