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tube
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What does tube mean?
noun
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- 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.)
More meanings (10)
noun
- (slang) A tin can containing beer.
- A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (slang) An idiot.
- Short for speaking tube.
- (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
verb
- To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
- To ride an inner tube.
- To intubate.
proper noun
- (informal) The London Underground.
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IPA pronunciation
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It served as a reservoir for compressed air, which a valve, worked by a spring, allowed to escape into a metal tube.
This last vessel should also be supplied with a bent tube for conducting the combined vapors with a third vessel or receiver.
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It consisted of a polished tube, in which thermometers were enclosed, and through which a stream of air was forced by bellows.
The machine was made principally of steel, the sustaining surfaces being composed of silk stretched from a steel tube with wooden attachments.
On the left side he found a second uterus, unimpregnated and of usual size, to which another ovary and tube were attached.