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tube

[toob, tyoob]

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noun

a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.

a small, collapsible, cylinder of metal or plastic sealed at one end and having a capped opening at the other from which paint, toothpaste, or some other semifluid substance may be squeezed.

Anatomy, Zoology. any hollow, cylindrical vessel or organ: the bronchial tubes.

Botany.

any hollow, elongated body or part.

the united lower portion of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.

inner tube.

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Electronics. electron tube.

Informal.

television.

a television set.

mailing tube.

the tubular tunnel in which an underground railroad runs.

10.

the railroad itself.

11.

Surfing Slang. the curled hollow formed on the underside of a cresting wave.

12.

British. subway (def. 1).

13.

Australian Slang. a can of beer.

14.

Older Slang. a telescope.

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verb (used with object)

15.

to furnish with a tube or tubes.

16.

to convey or enclose in a tube.

17.

to form into the shape of a tube; make tubular.

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Tube is always a great word to know.

So is respiratory system. Does it mean:

either one of the second pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the retina to the brain

the system by which oxygen is taken into the body; in mammals the system includes the nasal passages, pharynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs

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Idiom

18.

down the tube

tubes, Informal. into a ruined, wasted, or abandoned state or condition.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin tubus pipe

Related forms

tube·less, adjective

tube·like, adjective

mul·ti·tube, adjective

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Example Sentences

Ear tube insertion involves placing tubes through the eardrums.

It's easy to blame the tube for fostering a flight from serious issues into glitter, froth, and measuring tape.

The tube system was severely disrupted by a strike over staffing cuts.

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Ear tube insertion involves placing tubes through the eardrums.

It's easy to blame the tube for fostering a flight from serious issues into glitter, froth, and measuring tape.

The tube system was severely disrupted by a strike over staffing cuts.

If more wind shifts tilt this tube so that one end touches the ground, a tornado is born.

Levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons linked to neural tube defects.

All that is needed is a tube long enough, breath and some musculature coordinated enough to create intonations.

Attach the plastic tube to the pump, then thread it through the center opening in the steel mesh.

As you ride, this tube is squeezed agains the tire and air is squished out.

The conventional tube television is being given a flatter figure.

Grab a piece of wholegrain bread with peanut butter and a bit of jelly freeze tube yogurt and eat it as ice-cream.

Its reactor is composed of a series of clear tubes, each with another opaque tube nested inside.

As images of an encrusted torpedo tube flickered across video monitors aboard the.

As the superheated air cools it produces a resonating tube of partial vacuum surrounding the lightning's path.

Recently a group of biologists has offered a theory that they say explains, if not tube socks, then nearly everything else.

If your canvas starts to warp or wrinkle, roll it firmly around a gift-wrap tube and leave it for several hours.

All it does is add a handlebar-diameter tube to your bike, anywhere that you have a.

I've also had a student wearing a tube top with a regular bra underneath.

It is sold to minors and in fast food restaurants, and is freely consumed on the streets and in tube stations.

With an extra large feeding tube it's never been simpler to add.

Through the vein they threaded a tube called a cannula into the right atrium, an upper chamber inside my heart.

Each tube contains a small, rooted plantlet about the size of your little finger.

The watering tube is made from plastic water bottles with the bottoms cut out.

For all the other materials, the weight gets down to the bottom of the tube.

The system essentially functions as a clinical trial in a test tube.

It consists of a narrow tube that rests on the operator's nose.

In bird embryos, each feather begins as a tube growing from a placode, and the same front and back genes are at work in the tube.

One can then derive the speed of sound from a measurement of the time that an impulse of sound takes to traverse the tube.

By morning, you should have a test tube with about a million copies of a dodo gene or gene fragment.

Then rehook the vinyl siphoning tube to the bucket's spigot and put the other end in the neck of your first empty bottle.

Not to protect the lens, but to protect the tube should you accidentally let it point at the sun.

The average diet does not include enough folate to prevent neural tube birth defects.

Find out how real police work compares to what you see on the tube.

Alternatively, many small disks could be configured as a narrow finned tube with many tiny read/write heads.

There was the tube of crescent rolls, the package of hot dogs, the cheese slices.

The cord is marked with orange ribbon, and the tube is calibrated in kilos.

Spencer stood in front of a magnetron tube and noticed the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted.

Hercules plucks one of the tube cores from a holster made from a milk crate and attempts to push the tube into the seafloor.

It involved inserting a metal tube behind and into one of the patient's eyes, through which the implant was put into place.

Students look in the tube and tell me what color they see on the inside of the box.

Its up-and-down bobbing motion is used to pressurise water stored in the tube below the surface.

Tube worms and other animals use bacteria to convert sulphurous minerals and alike into useful substances.

It can draw into its tube for protection or use its tentacles to.

When the tube reaches full power, the halogen lamp winks off.

The adult tube sites may do the same for the adult industry.

The mosquito sucks the blood up a long tube through her proboscis.

Believing you can find the answer in a test tube seems hilarious to me.

He then cut the belts to size and pushed them inside his bike tires before replacing them and fitting the inner tube as usual.

Sometimes air rising inside a thunderstorm tilts the spinning tube upright.

Some of them are adding a topological closure to the graphene tube at one end.

Kimberly-Clark is eliminating the cardboard tube in two of its toilet.

It turns as if on tracks, courtesy of an oversize head tube and other wobble-reducing refinements.

Manufacturers are responding by designing a much shallower picture tube.

The only thing which worries me is the outer spinning tube, which rotates around an inner steel tube.

Researchers and local authorities blocked the flow in a tube that was feeding lava from higher up the slope.

But all that time in front of the tube may up your risk of.

The back is designed to mimic the housing for the cathode ray tube.

The scientists then counted the number of ants that came to each tube.

The nitrogen is pumped through a quartz tube wrapped in a coiled antenna and surrounded by magnets.

Monastersky takes a slightly different angle on the origins of life and questions the ethics of creating life in a tube.

What made the toy interesting is that each tube did something different.

In this case, the conundrum is how to keep your water from freezing in the narrow tube between your pack and the mouthpiece.

Airports were closed, buses weren't running, and the tube was struggling.

Heat makes the mercury expand and it rises up the tube.

Tube worms, clams, and mussels gather around the vents to feed on heat-loving bacteria.

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World English Dictionary

tube (tjuːb)

—n
1.	a long hollow and typically cylindrical object, used for the passage of fluids or as a container
2.	a collapsible cylindrical container of soft metal or plastic closed with a cap, used to hold viscous liquids or pastes
3.	anatomy
	a. Eustachian tube short for Fallopian tube
	b. any hollow cylindrical structure
4.	botany
	a. the lower part of a gamopetalous corolla or gamosepalous calyx, below the lobes
	b. any other hollow structure in a plant
5.	(Brit) the tube
	a. Also called: the underground, US and Canadian equivalent: subway an underground railway system
	b. the tunnels through which the railway runs
	c. the train itself
	d. (capital) trademark the London underground railway system
6.	electronics
	a. another name for valve
	b. electron tube cathode-ray tube See television tube
7.	slang the tube a television set
8.	slang (Brit) a stupid or despicable person
9.	slang (Austral) a bottle or can of beer
10.	surfing the cylindrical passage formed when a wave breaks and the crest tips forward
11.	an archaic word for telescope

—vb
12.	to fit or supply with a tube or tubes
13.	to carry or convey in a tube
14.	to shape like a tube

[C17: from Latin tubus]

'tubeless

—*adj*

'tube-like

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

tube

1611, from M.Fr. tube (1460), from L. tubus "tube, pipe," of unknown origin. The London subway was christened the Twopenny Tube before it even opened (H.D. Browne, in the "Londoner" of June 30, 1900); tube for "cylindrical railway tunnel" is attested from 1847. The meaning "TV as a medium" is from 1959,

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short for cathode ray tube or picture tube. Tube top as a women's clothing style is attested from 1972. Tubular is attested from 1673, "having the form of a tube or pipe," but the modern slang sense is from 1982, Valspeak, from surfers' slang for a hollow, curling wave, ideal for riding. Tube steak is attested from 1963 as "frankfurter," slang meaning "penis" is recorded by mid-1980s. Tubing as a recreational pastime is recorded from 1975.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

tube (t&oomacr;b, ty&oomacr;b)
n.

A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.
An anatomical structure or organ having the shape or function of a tube; a duct.

Slang Dictionary

tube definition

n.
a can of beer. (See also crack a tube.) : Toss me a tube, will ya?
n.
the inner curve of a tall wave. (Surfing. See also tubular.) : I'm waiting for the best tube.
in.
to fail; to go down the tube(s). (See also tube it.) : The whole plan tubed at the last minute.
n.
a television set. : The tube is in the shop, so I read a book.
n.
a cigarette. : There's a pack of tubes in my jacket.

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Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

tube definition

1. A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Loony Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie.
2. electron tube.
3. (IBM) To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. "Tube me that note."
[Jargon File]
(1996-02-05)

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Idioms & Phrases

tube

see down the tubes.