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tube
has definitions from the fields of transportation,business,electronics,anatomy,zoology
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[ noun ] conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases
Synonyms Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Did she know , he asked , why the colors of the tubes were important to people 's health ? In Chicago , some time ago , Mr._H. , age 27 , a diabetic since he was six , stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' - a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent - sold by the Vrilium_Company of Chicago for $ 306 as a cure-all . (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)Spectra were also obtained from a sample in a spherical container which was made by blowing a bubble on the end of a capillary glass tube . (Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)Matheson highest purity tank chlorine was passed through a tube of resublimed * * f into an evacuated Pyrex system where it was condensed with liquid_air . The purified product was stored at_- 78 ` in a tube equipped with a break_seal . |
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[ noun ] (electronics) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
Used in print (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)The cathode consisted_of a 1/4 '' diameter thoriated tungsten rod attached to a water_cooled copper tube . This tube could be adjusted in its axial direction by an electric drive to establish the required electrode spacing . Argon was also blown at low velocities ( mass flow_rate **f ) through a tube coaxial with the cathode as an additional precaution against contamination of the arc by air . A plug and a tube with holes in its cylindrical walls divided the chamber above the porous plug into two parts . |
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[ noun ] a hollow cylindrical shape
Synonyms Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness , became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (transportation) ride or float on an inflated tube
Examples "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
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[ verb ] place or enclose in a tube
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[ verb ] (transportation) convey in a tube
Examples "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" Related terms |
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[ verb ] provide with a tube or insert a tube into
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[ noun ] (transportation,business) electric underground railway
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