tubing vs drinking straw

drinking straw vs tubing

tubing and drinking straw both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tubing	Yes	No	No	No
drinking straw	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, drinking straw is a hyponym of tubing; that is, drinking straw is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tubing:

tubing: conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
drinking straw: a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

Other hyponyms of tubing include barrel, gun barrel, blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe, blowtube, blow tube, blowpipe, blowtube, cannula, capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing, catheter, cigarette holder, coil, chromatography column, column, drain, hose, hosepipe, inner tube, mouthpiece, pea shooter, pipage, pipe, piping, pipe, tobacco pipe, silencer, siphon, syphon, speaking tube, stem, stent, straw, test tube, torpedo tube, venturi, well point, wellpoint, water tube, watertube.

tubing (noun)	drinking straw (noun)
conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases	a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

Difference between tubing and drinking straw

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