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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plumb  \Plumb\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Plumbed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Plumbing}.] 
  1.  To  adjust  by  a  plumb  line  to  cause  to  be  perpendicular; 
  as  to  plumb  a  building  or  a  wall. 
 
  2.  To  sound  with  a  plumb  or  plummet,  as  the  depth  of  water; 
  hence  to  examine  by  test;  to  ascertain  the  depth, 
  quality,  dimension,  etc.;  to  sound;  to  fathom;  to  test. 
 
  He  did  not  attempt  to  plumb  his  intellect.  --Ld. 
  Lytton. 
 
  3.  To  seal  with  lead;  as  to  plumb  a  drainpipe. 
 
  4.  To  supply,  as  a  building,  with  a  system  of  plumbing. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plumbing  \Plumb"ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  art  of  casting  and  working  in  lead,  and  applying  it  to 
  building  purposes;  especially,  the  business  of  furnishing, 
  fitting,  and  repairing  pipes  for  conducting  water,  sewage, 
  etc  --Gwilt. 
 
  2.  The  lead  or  iron  pipes,  and  other  apparatus,  used  in 
  conveying  water,  sewage,  etc.,  in  a  building. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plumbing 
  n  1:  the  apparatus  of  pipes  and  fixtures  for  the  distribution  of 
  water  or  gas  in  a  building  and  for  the  disposal  of 
  sewage  [syn:  {plumbing  system}] 
  2:  the  occupation  of  a  plumber  (installing  and  repairing  pipes 
  and  fixtures  for  water  or  gas  or  sewage  in  a  building) 
  [syn:  {plumbery}] 
  3:  measuring  the  depths  of  the  oceans  [syn:  {bathymetry}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  plumbing  n.  [Unix]  Term  used  for  {shell}  code,  so  called 
  because  of  the  prevalence  of  `pipelines'  that  feed  the  output  of 
  one  program  to  the  input  of  another.  Under  Unix,  user  utilities  can 
  often  be  implemented  or  at  least  prototyped  by  a  suitable  collection 
  of  pipelines  and  temp-file  grinding  encapsulated  in  a  shell  script; 
  this  is  much  less  effort  than  writing  C  every  time,  and  the  capability 
  is  considered  one  of  Unix's  major  winning  features.  A  few  other  OSs 
  such  as  IBM's  VM/CMS  support  similar  facilities.  Esp.  used  in  the 
  construction  `hairy  plumbing'  (see  {hairy}).  "You  can  kluge  together 
  a  basic  spell-checker  out  of  `sort(1)',  `comm(1)',  and  `tr(1)'  with  a 
  little  plumbing."  See  also  {tee}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  plumbing 
 
  (Unix)  Term  used  for  {shell}  code,  so  called  because  of  the 
  prevalence  of  "{pipeline}s"  that  feed  the  output  of  one 
  program  to  the  input  of  another.  Under  {Unix},  user  utilities 
  can  often  be  implemented  or  at  least  prototyped  by  a  suitable 
  collection  of  pipelines  and  temporary  file  {grind}ing 
  encapsulated  in  a  {shell  script}.  This  is  much  less  effort 
  than  writing  {C}  every  time,  and  the  capability  is  considered 
  one  of  Unix's  major  winning  features.  A  few  other  {operating 
  system}s  such  as  {IBM}'s  {VM/CMS}  support  similar  facilities. 
 
  The  {tee}  utility  is  specifically  designed  for  plumbing. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1995-02-23)




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