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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases [syn: tube, tubing]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1845 1. material in the form of a tube; also a length or piece of tube 2. a series or system of tubes 3. the sport or activity of riding an inner tube (as down a river or snowy slope)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a length of tube. 2 a quantity of tubes.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tube Tube, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tubed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tubing.] To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tubing Tub"ing, n. 1. The act of making tubes. 2. A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Tubing is plastic, rubber, or another material in the shape of a tube. ...metres of plastic tubing.

Moby Thesaurus

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