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Definition of Tube
1. Verb. Provide with a tube or insert a tube into.
2. Noun. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases.
Specialized synonyms: Barrel, Gun Barrel, Blow Tube, Blowgun, Blowpipe, Blowtube, Blow Tube, Blowpipe, Blowtube, Cannula, Capillary, Capillary Tube, Capillary Tubing, Catheter, Cigarette Holder, Coil, Chromatography Column, Column, Drain, Hose, Hosepipe, Inner Tube, Mouthpiece, Pea Shooter, Pipage, Pipe, Piping, Pipe, Tobacco Pipe, Silencer, Siphon, Syphon, Speaking Tube, Stem, Stent, Drinking Straw, Straw, Test Tube, Torpedo Tube, Venturi, Well Point, Wellpoint
Generic synonyms: Conduit
Derivative terms: Tubular
3. Verb. Convey in a tube. "Inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
4. Noun. Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope.
Specialized synonyms: Acorn Tube, Diode, Rectifying Tube, Rectifying Valve, Electron Multiplier, Gas-discharge Tube, Klystron, Magnetron, Pentode, Television Pickup Tube, Television-camera Tube, Tetrode, Triode, X-ray Tube
Terms within: Anode, Cathode, Electrode, Control Grid, Grid, Plate
Group relationships: Circuit, Electric Circuit, Electrical Circuit
Generic synonyms: Electronic Device
5. Verb. Ride or float on an inflated tube. "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"
6. Noun. A hollow cylindrical shape.
7. Verb. Place or enclose in a tube.
8. Noun. (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure.
Generic synonyms: Anatomical Structure, Bodily Structure, Body Structure, Complex Body Part, Structure
Specialized synonyms: Tubule, Salpinx, Cochlea, Vas, Vessel
Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Derivative terms: Tubal
9. Noun. An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city). "In Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"
Generic synonyms: Railroad, Railroad Line, Railway, Railway Line, Railway System
Definition of Tube
1. n. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
2. v. t. To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
3. n. A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.
Definition of Tube
1. Proper noun. (informal) The London Underground ¹
2. Noun. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. ¹
3. Noun. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances. ¹
4. Noun. (British colloquial) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often ''the tube''.) ¹
5. Noun. (Australia slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?) ¹
6. Noun. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside. ¹
7. Noun. (North America colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly ¹
8. Verb. To make or use tubes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tube
1. to provide with a tube (a long, hollow cylinder) [v TUBED, TUBING, TUBES]
Medical Definition of Tube
1. An elongated hollow cylindrical organ or instrument. Origin: L. Tubus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
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