1A length or lengths of metal, plastic, glass, etc., in tubular form.
‘use the plastic tubing to siphon the beer into the bottles’
‘I slipped short lengths of plastic tubing on top to give the fingers thickness.’
‘Using a long piece of plastic tubing, carefully siphon off the clear liquid into a clean container.’
‘The device, which consisted of a foot-operated pump, clear plastic tubing attached to large plastic cups, was supposed to enlarge by creating a vacuum.’
‘The central and biggest sculpture was four lengths of large clear plastic tubing, each connected to the same cross fitting and filled with water.’
‘We set to work in that bright and humid space cutting large plastic tubing and small plastic tubing.’
‘Reports suggest that he was found with a plastic bag and some tubing while in doping control.’
‘Modern industry has also introduced plastic tubing and vacuum pumps to siphon the sap directly to a single central location for further processing.’
‘An elastic band secured the binoculars to a small platform mounted at the correct height on a piece of grey plastic tubing attached to the platform.’
‘When a pre-prepared bag of a substance for transfusion, such as blood, saline and the like, is to be connected to another piece of equipment, for example in a hospital, this is usually done by use of plastic tubing.’
‘Eleven centimetre long shoot segments were obtained from internodes of previous year shoots, placed vertically and fitted to plastic tubing.’
‘The emergency team anaesthetist noticed that the airway heater had caused the breathing circuit's plastic tubing to melt and turned the heater off.’
‘I could feel gauzy bandages wrapped around my forehead, and I could feel the plastic tubing taped to my upper lip to help me breathe.’
‘Cover each loop with plastic tubing to avoid corrosion and increase durability.’
‘The bottles were uniformly aerated using a compressor and plastic tubing.’
‘Weep holes are made by placing rope or plastic tubing in the mortar joints, or by leaving the mortar out of every second or third head joint.’
‘Generally, it is 1/2 inch flexible plastic tubing that is laid out at 8 to 12 inch spacing below or in the floor.’
‘The plastic tubing is then laid out in a continuous loop pattern starting from the control manifold, and is secured to the subfloor with special fasteners.’
‘Arterial catheters with plastic tubing had not been invented.’
‘The little pump was also on sale and came with about 4 feet of plastic tubing.’
‘This is a network of plastic tubing that can be regulated to provide a constant moisture supply to your plants.’
2The leisure activity of riding on water or snow on a large inflated inner tube.
‘For the adrenaline junkies, jet skis, water skiing and tubing are just a few examples of the water sports available at the beach.’
‘When not fishing, Gary enjoys inner tubing on the lake with his two sons in Wisconsin’
‘Investigators said it appeared the pair were tubing on the lake when the man struggled to return to the boat and went under the water.’
‘During the second day at the camp, I decided to go tubing on the lake during the break.’
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