Found 3 items, similar to Tube.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: tube bis, pipa, tabung
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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A telescope. “Glazed optic tube.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. [1913 Webster] 4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. [1913 Webster] 5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] 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. [1913 Webster]