1. tube(n = noun.artifact) tubing - conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases;
is a kind of conduit
has particulars: 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, drinking straw, straw, test tube, torpedo tube, venturi, well point, wellpoint
Derived forms verb tube4, adjective tubular1
2. tube(n = noun.artifact) electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube - electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope;
is a kind of electronic device
is a part of circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit
has parts: anode, cathode, electrode, control grid, grid, plate
has particulars: acorn tube, diode, rectifying tube, rectifying valve, electron multiplier, gas-discharge tube, klystron, magnetron, pentode, television-camera tube, television pickup tube, tetrode, triode, x-ray tube
3. tube(n = noun.shape) pipe - a hollow cylindrical shape;
is a kind of cylinder
Derived form verb tube4
4. tube(n = noun.body) tube-shaped structure - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure;
is a kind of anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure
has particulars: tubule, salpinx, cochlea, vas, vessel
Derived forms adjective tubal1, verb tube4, verb tube2, verb tube1
5. tube(n = noun.artifact) metro, subway, subway system, underground - an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"
is a kind of railroad, railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system
1. tube(v = verb.possession) - provide with a tube or insert a tube into;
is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply
Derived form noun tube4
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
2. tube(v = verb.motion) - convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
is one way to bring, convey, take
Derived forms noun tube4, noun tubing1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
3. tube(v = verb.motion) - ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"
is one way to ride
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
4. tube(v = verb.contact) - place or enclose in a tube;
is one way to enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap
Derived forms noun tube1, noun tube4, noun tube3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
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. Milton. [1913 Webster]
3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. [1913 Webster]
4. The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. [1913 Webster]
5. A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. [1913 Webster]
6. 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. 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. [1913 Webster]
8. A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.
"In the New York area, the subways running under the Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. [1913 Webster]
tube, n. & v.
--n.
1 a long hollow rigid or flexible cylinder, esp. for holding or carrying air, liquids, etc.
2 a soft metal or plastic cylinder sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for holding a semi-liquid substance ready for use (a tube of toothpaste).
3 Anat. & Zool. a hollow cylindrical organ in the body (bronchial tubes; Fallopian tubes).
4 (often prec. by the) colloq. the London underground railway system (went by tube).
5 a a cathode-ray tube esp. in a television set. b (prec. by the) esp. US colloq. television.
6 US a thermionic valve.
7 = inner tube.
8 the cylindrical body of a wind instrument.
9 Austral. sl. a can of beer.
--v.tr.
1 equip with tubes.
2 enclose in a tube.
Derivative:
tubeless adj. (esp. in sense 7 of n.). tubelike adj.
Etymology:
F tube or L tubus
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