2. Noun. (Internet slang) The Internet. ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of tube) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tubes
1. tube [v] - See also: tube
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubes
Literary usage of Tubes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The exit valve, i, is во loaded that when the heating tubes, ddd, are at the
desired working temperature, and the pump, c, is not in action, it will not be ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
""What 1 claim as my invention is— terial having tubes, spiral metal springs
inclosed by such tubes and not extending to the edges of the covering material, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Vertical baffles are also built between the smaller tubes, as shown in the ...
The two inner row» of tubes, which are bent to the form shown in the figure, ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"On a Simple Method of ascertaining, without the Use of the Catheter, whether the
Eustachian tubes are pervious; with some Observations on the Treatment of ..."
5. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1892)
"The heat generated by the friction and the pressure then welds the material.
For shaping or making tubes, the tube or skelp is forced into the revolving die ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Limulus agrees with the majority of the Crustacea in being destitute of renal
excretory caeca or tubes opening into the hinder part of the gut. ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Similarly the output circuits of the latter tubes are coupled through the transformer
... The power tubes, it will be noted, are connected in quantity or ..."
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