different between tubing vs stovepipe

English

Etymology

tube +? -ing

Noun

tubing (countable and uncountable, plural tubings)

1. tubes, considered as a group
2. a length of tube, or a system of tubes
3. the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube
4. the recreation of tobogganing down a snowy slope or toboggan run on an inner tube

Translations

Verb

tubing

1. present participle of tube

Anagrams

• gibnut

Spanish

Noun

tubing m (uncountable)

1. tubing (activity)

English

Etymology

stove +? pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.

Noun

stovepipe (plural stovepipes)

1. Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
2. A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
3. (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
4. (firearms) A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.

Derived terms

• stovepipe hat
• stovepipe tornado

Translations

Verb

stovepipe (third-person singular simple present stovepipes, present participle stovepiping, simple past and past participle stovepiped)

1. To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
2. (firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.