Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
TUBING
tube, tubing
(noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tubing (countable and uncountable, plural tubings)
tubes, considered as a group
a length of tube, or a system of tubes
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
Verb
tubing
present participle of tube
Anagrams
• gibnut
Source: Wiktionary
Tub"ing, n.
1. The act of making tubes.
2. A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
TUBE
Tube, n. Etym: [L.tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.]
1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
2. A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." Milton.
3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
4. (Bot.)
Definition: The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
5. (Gun.)
Definition: A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
6. (Steam Boilers)
Definition: A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
7. (Zoöl.) (a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. (b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary.
– Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue.
РTube coral. (Zo̦l.) Same as Tubipore.
РTube foot (Zo̦l.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm.
– Tube plate, or Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under Flue.
– Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes.
РTube spinner (Zo̦l.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera.
– Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.
Tube, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tubed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tubing.]
Definition: To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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