tubing

Other forms of tubing

plural

tubings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tubing

What does tubing mean?

tubing means "conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases".

How many syllables are in tubing?

tubing has 2 syllables: tu-bing. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˈtubɪŋ/.

What is another word for tubing?

Close synonyms include tube. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tubing a common word?

tubing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.