TUBE
Definition:
- [noun] conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
Synonyms: tubing
- [noun] electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
Synonyms: vacuum thermionic vacuum thermionic electron thermionic valve
- [noun] a hollow cylindrical shape
Synonyms: pipe
- [noun] (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
Synonyms: -shaped structure
- [noun] electric underground railway
Synonyms: metro, subway, underground
- [verb] provide with a tube or insert a tube into
- [verb] convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
- [verb] ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"
- [verb] place or enclose in a tube
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Related Words:
- barrel, gun barrel
- blowgun, blowpipe, blowtube, blow tube
- blowtube, blow tube, blowpipe
- cannula
- capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing
- catheter
- cigarette holder
- coil
- column, chromatography column
- drain
- hose, hosepipe
- inner tube
- mouthpiece
- pea shooter
- pipe, pipage, piping
- pipe, tobacco pipe
- silencer
- siphon, syphon
- speaking tube
- stem
- stent
- straw, drinking straw
- test tube
- torpedo tube
- venturi
- well point, wellpoint
- 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
- tubule
- salpinx
- cochlea
- vessel, vas
