A tube is a pipe shape, a cylinder with a hollow space inside. If you're like most people, you sip your milkshake through a straw a long, plastic tube.
A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
Noun
electric underground railway
Noun
conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
Noun
electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
Noun
(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
Noun
a hollow cylindrical shape
Verb
place or enclose in a tube
Verb
ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"
Verb
convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
Verb
provide with a tube or insert a tube into
n.
A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance
of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
n.
A telescope.
n.
A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or
other substance.
n.
The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
n.
A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and
Friction.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
v. t.
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
To furnish with a tube;
Usage Examples
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
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Other Usage ExamplesEdible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.
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