tubing
管材
解説 Definition
tubing は tube（管で送る、チューブに入れる）の動名詞・現在分詞ですが、名詞としては管材、チューブ状の材料という意味でよく使われます。ゴム、金属、プラスチックなどの細長い管を指します。
Long, hollow, flexible or rigid material in the form of tubes, used for carrying liquids or gases or for connecting parts of a device. In this material sense, tubing is generally treated as an uncountable noun.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
tube「管」に -ing を付けた形で、例文では動作よりも「管材、チューブ状の材料」という不可算名詞として使われる。tube の語末 e を落として tubing と綴り、発音は /ˈtuːbɪŋ/。plastic tubing、clean tubing、replace the tubing の組み合わせで、素材としての管を思い浮かべる。
Tubing is built from tube plus -ing; the final silent e is dropped before the suffix, giving tubing, pronounced /ˈtuːbɪŋ/. Although it can be an -ing form of the verb tube, the examples use it chiefly as an uncountable material noun: tubing means tube-shaped material or a length of tube used in equipment. Picture plastic tubing attached to a pump or clean medical tubing connected to a device. Common patterns such as some tubing, plastic tubing, and replace the tubing reinforce that it is material, not normally a countable individual object.
例文
The nurse used clean tubing for the device.
看護師はその装置に清潔な管材を使いました。
We need plastic tubing for this small pump.
この小さなポンプにはプラスチックの管材が必要です。
The old tubing was replaced before the test began.
試験が始まる前に、古い管材は交換されました。
tubing の類義語・関連語
tubing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
tube（管）+ -ing（動名詞・名詞接尾辞）の構成。tube はラテン語 tubus（管、パイプ）に由来する。管状の材料や管を通す作業を指す。川下りでチューブに乗るレジャーの意味もある。関連語: tube（管）、tubular（管状の）。
Tubing is formed from tube and the suffix -ing, with the final silent e of tube omitted. Tube comes through French from Latin tubus, meaning a pipe or hollow vessel. The -ing formation can name the action of putting something into or through a tube, but it also developed a concrete collective or material sense: tubes, or tube-shaped material, considered as a supply. The examples reflect this established noun use rather than the action sense.
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