What (who) is tube - definition
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tube
n.
channel within a body
1) bronchial; Eustachian; Fallopian tubes
rubber casing
2) an inner tube
hollow cylinder
3) an electron; picture, television; test tube
4) a vacuum tube (AE; BE has valve)
5) (slang) the boob tube ('television')
Tube
·noun A Telescope.
II. Tube ·noun One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
III. Tube ·vt To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
IV. Tube ·noun The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
V. Tube ·noun A priming tube, or friction primer. ·see under Priming, and Friction.
VI. Tube ·add. ·noun A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.
VII. Tube ·noun A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
VIII. Tube ·noun A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
IX. Tube ·noun 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.
X. Tube ·noun 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.
tubes
informal a woman's Fallopian tubes.
Wikipedia
Tube
Tube or tubes may refer to:
- Tube (2003 film), a 2003 Korean film
- The Tube (TV series), a music related TV series by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom
- "Tubes" (Peter Dale), performer on the Soccer AM television show
- Tube (band), a Japanese rock band
- Tube & Berger, the alias of dance/electronica producers Arndt Rörig and Marco Vidovic from Germany
- The Tube Music Network, a music video network that operated between 2006 and 2007
- The Tubes, a San Francisco-based band, popular in the 1970s and 1980s
Pronunciation examples for tube
1. tube.
Conceivable! Reversing a Modern-day Dilemma _ Mary Wong _ Talks at Google
2. a tube-building worm.
Spineless - Portraits of Marine Invertebrates _ Susan Middleton _ Talks at Google
3. The tube floats around.
Dr. Christopher Mason _ The Next 500 Years _ Talks at Google
4. tube station to another.
The Art of Logic _ Eugenia Cheng _ Talks at Google
5. coating the tube.
Jim Green _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of tube
1. Tube information On the tube trains, early reports suggested carriages were not as busy as normal.
2. Always find that the tube runs at great speed especially at the Bank Tube Station.
3. "He had a tube in his nose, a tube going into his mouth and a hole in his neck.
4. The other two bombing suspects, who have not yet been named, targeted Oval tube station and Shepherd‘s Bush tube station.
5. There was also confusion about the number of incidents on the tube after passengers were evacuated from several tube stations.