tube vs tubing

tube

noun
  • A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube. 

  • Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. 

  • The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.) 

  • A tin can containing beer. 

  • An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. 

  • An idiot. 

  • A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside. 

verb
  • To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. 

  • To intubate. 

  • To ride an inner tube. 

tubing

noun
  • a length of tube, or a system of tubes 

  • tubes, considered as a group 

  • the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube 

  • the recreation of tobogganing down a snowy slope or toboggan run on an inner tube 

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