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tubing

[ too-bing, tyoo- ]

noun

  1. material in the form of a tube:

    glass tubing.

  2. tubes collectively.
  3. a piece of tube:

    two feet of copper tubing.

  4. Also called inner-tubing. the sport or recreation of floating down a river or stream on an inner tube.


tubing

/ ˈːɪŋ /

noun

  1. tubes collectively
  2. a length of tube
  3. a system of tubes
  4. fabric in the form of a tube, used for pillowcases and some cushions; piping
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of tubing1

First recorded in 1835–45; tube + -ing 1
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Months later, Bryar’s autopsy raised a possible contributing factor in his death — three canisters of nitrous oxide found next to his corpse, with tubing for inhalation still attached.

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Cannulas can also bend, restricting the flow of insulin, and the pump can sometimes become disconnected from the tubing without the user noticing.

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For the throngs of young western travellers on South East Asia’s backpacker trail, Vang Vieng has become famous for what is called “tubing.”

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“To combat the river tubing deaths they demolished a bunch of the riverside bars that were selling buckets of vodka to people floating by,” one Western diplomat in the region told the BBC.

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In another enclosure, Mozart, a three-legged gray fox with no spleen, peered warily from a tunnel of corrugated tubing.

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