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What (who) is tubes - definition
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Tubes; TUBE; Tube (disambiguation); Tube (mathematics)
tubes
informal a woman's Fallopian tubes.
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.
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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
Examples of use of tubes
1. They put tubes in my lungs so I could breathe. ‘I had tubes everywhere.
2. Drawing fiber along a street involves digging a trench to lay it, or putting up plastic tubes on the utility poles, then pulling the fiber through the tubes.
3. In most ectopic pregnancies, the baby grows in fallopian tubes.
4. No wonder why we‘re going down the tubes," Karsnia said.
5. Shouldn‘t boys under 17 have their tubes tied, too?