My Building Systems Technology Glossary.

14 Plumbing terms

Here's few words about plumbing

boiler
noun
A fuel-burning apparatus or container for heating water.
Example: Strengths of the existing Programmer: The programmer provides an impressive digital display about time, temperature and other information about BOILER, water and heating on button.
en: chaudière
Boiler
drain
noun
Cause or allow (liquid) to run off or out of something.
Example: The brain DRAIN 'should be considered in the elaboration of an international code of conduct for the transfer of technology' and this procedure cannot implicate states in order to be fair.
en: avaloir
A street drain
faucet
noun
Device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled; a tap.
Example: Like language in the contemporary world, nothing in the novel has one stable meaning, a principal FAUCET of much post-structuralist and post-modern thought.
en: robinet
Faucet
leak
noun
A hole in a container or covering through which contents, especially liquid or gas, may accidentally pass.
Example: There’s a leak in the pipe.
en: fuite
pipe
noun
A tube of metal, plastic, or other material used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances.
Example: The author also indicates that the innovation approach needs investments not only in the research that generates knowledge, "but in the quality and effectiveness of the PIPE, and in the processes, mechanisms and institutions that will use the knowledge once it emerges".
en: tuyau
Pipe
pipefitter
plumbing system
Plumbing system means fixtures, pipes, and related parts, including a septic apparatus, assembled to carry clean water into a structure and to carry sewage out ...
Example: His homework is to desing a plumbing system.
en: système de plomberie
Plumbing system
plunger
pressure
noun
Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it.
Example: There’s too much pression in the boiler.
en: pression
sewer
noun
An underground conduit for carrying off drainage water and waste matter.
Example: The sewer is full.
en: égout
Sewer
sewerage
noun
The provision of drainage by sewers.
Example: Impacts are not just the obvious one such as traffic congestion mentioned in the political Impacts, but include the demand on water and SEWERAGE infrastructure, energy use, the landscape and the air pollution.
en: assainissement
soldering
valve
noun
A device for controlling the passage of fluid or air through a pipe, duct, etc., especially an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only.
Example: The direction control of a double acting cylinder can be done by using two 3 2 directional control VALVE. As shown in figure 9 the double acting cylinder was connected to two 3 2 manual push directional control valves.
en: soupape
Valve
wrench
noun
A tool used for gripping and turning nuts, bolts, pipes, etc.
Example: He used a wrench to murder him.
en: clé
Wrench