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Plumbing vs Reckoning - What's the difference?

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Plumbing is a related term of reckoning.


As nouns the difference between plumbing and reckoning

is that plumbing is (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 while reckoning is the action of calculating or estimating something.

As a verb reckoning is

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plumbing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.
  • (countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
  • Synonyms

    * (genitourinary system) waterworks (informal)

    See also

    * waterworks

    reckoning

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of calculating or estimating something.
  • :
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • (lb) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
  • *1817 , (Walter Scott), :
  • *:So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
  • An opinion or judgement.
  • The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
  • Derived terms

    * dead reckoning