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What's The Definition Of Tube?
[n] electric underground railway
[n] conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases [n] electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope [n] (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure [n] a hollow cylindrical shape [v] convey in a tube Synonyms | Synonyms for Tube: electron tube | metro | pipe | subway | thermionic tube | thermionic vacuum tube | thermionic valve | tube-shaped structure | tubing | underground | vacuum tube Related Terms | Find terms related to Tube: See Also | acorn tube | anatomical structure | anode | barrel | blow tube | blowgun | blowpipe | blowtube | bodily structure | body structure | bring | cannula | capillary | capillary tube | capillary tubing | catheter | cathode | chromatography column | cigarette holder | circuit | cochlea | coil | column | complex body part | conduit | control grid | convey | cylinder | diode | drain | drinking straw | electric circuit | electrical circuit | electrode | electron multiplier | electronic device | gas-discharge tube | grid | gun barrel | hose | hosepipe | inner tube | klystron | magnetron | mouthpiece | pea shooter | pentode | pipage | pipe | piping | plate | railroad | railroad line | railway | railway line | railway system | rectifying tube | rectifying valve | salpinx | silencer | siphon | speaking tube | stem | stent | straw | structure | syphon | take | television pickup tube | television-camera tube | test tube | tetrode | tobacco pipe | torpedo tube | triode | tubule | vas | venturi | vessel | well point | wellpoint | X-ray tube Tube In Webster's Dictionary \Tube\, n. (Elec. Railways)
A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.
[Chiefly Eng.]
\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. 2. A telescope. ``Glazed optic tube.'' --Milton. 3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. 4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. 5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under {Priming}, and {Friction}. 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. 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. {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. \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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