单词 | tubing |
释义 | tubingn. a. The action of furnishing with a tube or tubes; also concrete tubes collectively, or as a material; a length or piece of tube. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials in specific shape or form > [noun] > tube tube1823 tubing1845 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > material of tubular form tube1823 tubing1845 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > hollow cylinder or tube > system of or collectively tubing1886 tubage1896 1845 I. Farrell Archimedean Railway 8 This rail is made of iron tubing. 1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. 350 India-rubber tubing can be obtained. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 188 Tubing, lining a deep bore-hole by driving down iron tubes. 1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 69 Tubing, sheet-iron lining of a bore-hole. 1909 Installation News 3 112/1 Any carpenter could locate the weak spots in tubing work. b. (See quot. 1976.) U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > other snow sports > [noun] snow-snake1844 snow-shoeing1884 snowmobiling1964 ski-bobbing1966 tubing1975 snow-snaking1979 snowboard cross1996 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > other water sports > [noun] > riding down river on inflated inner tube tubing1975 1975 Newsweek 3 Feb. 69 But the big rage of the ski year—and the most painful—is a pastime called ‘tubing’. For experts, the idea is to take a running start and then execute a belly-flop onto an ordinary inflated inner tube. 1976 Webster's Sports Dict. 464/1 Tubing, the sport or pastime of riding down a river or of sliding down a snow-covered slope on an inflated automobile inner tube. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 367 Tubing—Arizona's most popular summer sport. On any given weekend, as many as 20,000 residents strap beer-filled ice chests and their behinds to old inner tubes and float down the five or ten miles of free-flowing Salt River below Saguaro Lake. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845 |
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