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tubing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tubing has 1 sense
- tubing(n = noun.artifact) tube - conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases; Array has particulars: barrel, gun barrel, blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe, blowtube, blow tube, blowpipe, blowtube, cannula, capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing, catheter, cigarette holder, coil, chromatography column, column, drain, hose, hosepipe, inner tube, mouthpiece, pea shooter, pipage, pipe, piping, pipe, tobacco pipe, silencer, siphon, syphon, speaking tube, stem, stent, drinking straw, straw, test tube, torpedo tube, venturi, well point, wellpoint
is a kind of conduit
Derived form verb tube2
CIDE DICTIONARY
tubing, n.
- The act of making tubes. [1913 Webster]
- A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
tubing
adjutage, catheter, drainpipe, efflux tube, fire hose, flue pipe, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, hose, hosepipe, nipple, organ pipe, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, reed, reed pipe, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, snorkel, soil pipe, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, tap, tube, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, waste pipe, water pipe
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