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plumbverb  [ T] plumb meaning, definition, what is plumb: to supply a building or a device with water pipes, or to connect a building or a device…. Learn more.
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What does a Plumber do? A plumber is someone who installs and maintains pipes in our homes and businesses. These pipes need to be installed and maintained for potable water, drainage, irrigation and sewage, as well as other uses.
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snub snub (snŭb) tr.v. snubbed, snub·bing, snubs 1. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight. 2. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of. 3. Nautical a. To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat. b. To secure (a vessel, for example) in this manner.
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lead lead 2. n. 1. Symbol Pb A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena and used in containers and pipes for corrosives, solder and type metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints, glass, storage batteries, and antiknock compounds.
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5 Ways to Avoid Discomfort After Your Gallbladder Removal Here are five tips to avoiding discomfort after gall bladder removal: 1. Add foods back into your diet gradually. For the first few days after surgery, stick with clear liquids, broths and gelatin. After that, gradually add more solid foods back into your diet.
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- A scrub is a now generalized term used as a synonym for a noob or newb, which is someone who is bad at a video game or activity in general. Most of the definitions here, surprisingly, have nothing to do with the actual term.
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- Word Origin & History. plummet late 14c., ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line, from O.Fr. plomet, dim. of plom sounding lead (see plumb). The verb is first recorded 1620s, originally to fathom, take soundings, from the noun. Meaning to fall rapidly first recorded 1939.
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Functional and comparative analysis of globin loci in pufferfish and humans This is surprising because we have found previously that homologues of genes telomeric to the human α-globin cluster are present in the pufferfish α-locus in the order gene 4, gene 3.1, gene 5, gene 6, and gene 7, with gene 7 closest to the α-globin genes10(Figure 5).
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Plummeting Definition Plummeting Definition What is the definition of plummeting? Plummeting is an anagram of the following dictonary word(s):0.04539
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- From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsuperbsu‧perb /sjuːˈpɜːb, suː- $ sʊˈpɜːrb/ ●●○ adjective [no comparative] GOOD/EXCELLENTextremely good syn excellent The food was superb. superb weather► see thesaurus at good —superbly adverb.
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plummet The definition of a plummet is something that weighs something else down. An example of plummet is a weight tied to a piece of material. Plummet is defined as to fall down quickly and suddenly. An example of plummet is for a model airplane to quickly plunge from the sky.
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Plumbing The word derives from the Latin plumbum for lead, as the first effective pipes used in Roman era were lead pipes. Plumbing often denotes the supply and waste system of an individual building, distinguishing it from water supply and sewage systems that serve a group of buildings.he major categories of plumbing systems or subsystems are: 1  potable cold and hot tap water supply. 2  plumbing drainage venting. 3  sewage systems and septic systems with or without hot water heat recycling and graywater recovery and treatment systems.
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OMB OMB definition, Office of Management and Budget: the division of the Executive Office of the President that prepares and administers the federal budget and improves management in the executive branch. Formerly Bureau of the Budget. Examples from the Web for OMB.
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Plum Island (New York) Plum Island is an island in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States.The Island is situated in Gardiners Bay, east of Orient Point, off the eastern end of the North Fork coast of Long Island. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1-mile (1.6 km) wide at its widest point.he northern portion of Plum Island is a recessional moraine deposit, and is part of the Harbor Hill-Roanoke Point-Fishers Island-Charlestown Moraine, thus is one of the Outer Lands. Boulders in the moraine can be seen in the eroding northern slope of the island.
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jamb Licensed from iStockPhoto. noun. The definition of a jamb is the framing that makes the side of a door or window. An example of a jamb is the part of a door that a bolt goes into when a door is locked. YourDictionary definition and usage example.
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plum plum. 1  drupe-A fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone (e.g. almonds, cherries, plums, olives), it comes from Latin drupa, overripe olive, from Greek druppa, olive..2  plum, prune-Plum and prune are ultimately the same word, coming from Greek proumnon.lum. 1  drupe-A fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone (e.g. almonds, cherries, plums, olives), it comes from Latin drupa, overripe olive, from Greek druppa, olive..
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Lead Lead (or Pb in the periodic table) is a naturally occurring heavy metal that is found in the Earth’s crust. Lead can be released into soil, air and water through soil erosion, volcanic eruptions, sea spray and bushfires. The natural concentration of lead in the air is less than 0.1 microgram per cubic metre.
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plum plum - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit. genus Prunus, Prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions. wild plum, wild plum tree - an uncultivated plum tree or shrub. common plum, Prunus domestica - any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas.
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- The blood, alimentary and nervous systems are the special seats of action of Plumbum. Hematosis is interfered with, rapid reduction in number of red corpuscles; hence pallor, icterus, anmia. Constrictive sensation in internal organs.
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Plumbing, Kitchen & Bath Dictionary A part used to join two sections of pipe or other fittings together. An example of a fitting is an elbow, bushing, or coupling. FIXTURE: Broad term in plumbing/kitchen/bath that could be an entire toilet, sink, tub, etc OR it could be the devices that provide a supply of water. FLAPPER: Part of the flush valve that seals water inside the toilet tank or allows passage of water into the toilet bowl during the flush cycle. Also known as a flush ball.
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Plum pudding model Plum pudding model. The plum pudding model of the atom. The current model of the sub-atomic structure involves a dense nucleus surrounded by a probabilistic cloud of electrons. The plum pudding model is one of several scientific models of the atom. First proposed by J. J. Thomson in 1904 soon after the discovery of the electron, but before the discovery of the atomic nucleus, the model represented an attempt to consolidate the known properties of atoms at the time: 1) electrons are negatively-charged particles and 2) atoms are neutrally-charged.
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Plumb bob For other uses, see Plumbline (disambiguation). A plumb bob or a plummet is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, that is suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line, or plumb-line. It is essentially the vertical equivalent of a water level.
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Enlargement of the vessel diameter is called what? Vasodilation: Widening of blood vessels that results from relaxation of the muscular walls of the vessels. What widens in vasodilation is actually. the diameter of the interior (lumen) of the vessel. The opposite of vasodilation is vasoconstriction.
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nub nub. n. 1. A protuberance or knob. 2. A small lump. 3. The essence; the core: the nub of a story. [Variant of.
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plum Noun. 1. plum-any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone. plum tree. plum-any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit.
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- Full Definition of COB. 1. [perhaps short for cobswan lead swan] : a male swan. 2. a dial English: a rounded mass, lump, or heap b: a mixture of unburnt clay and straw used especially for constructing walls of small houses in England.