Found 3 items, similar to Tube.
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Definition: tube
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tube
tube
n 1: conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually
cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids
or gases [syn:
tubing]
2: electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes
arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope [syn:
vacuum tube
,
thermionic vacuum tube,
thermionic tube,
electron tube
,
thermionic valve]
3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn:
pipe]
4: (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure [syn:
tube-shaped structure
]
5: electric underground railway [syn:
metro,
subway,
underground]
tube
v 1: provide with a tube or insert a tube into
2: convey in a tube;
“inside Paris, they used to tube mail”
3: ride or float on an inflated tube;
“We tubed down the river
on a hot summer day”
4: place or enclose in a tube
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tube
Tube
\Tube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Tubed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tubing.]
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
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Tube
\Tube\, n. [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.
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2. A telescope.
“Glazed optic tube.” --Milton.
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3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid
or other substance.
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4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
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5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under
Priming, and
Friction.
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6. (Steam Boilers) 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.
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7. (Zo["o]l.)
(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.
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8. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also
(Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. [Chiefly Eng.]
Note: In the New York area, the subways running under the
Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube.
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Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See
Capillary.
Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue.
Tube coral. (Zo["o]l.) Same as
Tubipore.
Tube foot (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Tube spinner (Zo["o]l.), 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.
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