TUBE
\tjˈuːb], \tjˈuːb], \t_j_ˈuː_b]\
Definitions of TUBE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
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(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
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conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
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place or enclose in a tube
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ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"
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convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
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provide with a tube or insert a tube into
By Princeton University
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electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
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convey in a tube
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(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.
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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
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A telescope.
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A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
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The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
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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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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.
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One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
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To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
By Oddity Software
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A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.
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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
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A telescope.
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A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
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The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
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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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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.
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One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
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To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
By Noah Webster.
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A hollow cylinder of glass, metal, etc., through which fluids may pass; an instrument having such a cylinder as an important part of it; a pipe; a subway or tunnel for an underground railway.
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To furnish with or to put into, a cylinder, tunnel, etc.
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Tubed.
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Tubing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A pipe: a long, hollow cylinder for the conveyance of fluids, etc.: a canal.
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To furnish with a tube.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A hollow cylindric organ or instrument.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Latin] A hollow cylinder of any material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, sound, and the like; a siphon; a pipe; a conduit; –a vessel of animal bodies or plants which conveys a fluid or other substance; –the part of a telescope into which the lenses are fitted, and by which they are directed and used.
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