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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tube has 5 senses
- tube(n = noun.artifact) tubing - conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases; Array has particulars: 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
- tube(n = noun.artifact) electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube - electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope; Array has particulars: acorn tube, diode, rectifying tube, rectifying valve, electron multiplier, gas-discharge tube, klystron, magnetron, pentode, television-camera tube, television pickup tube, tetrode, triode, x-ray tube
- tube(n = noun.shape) pipe - a hollow cylindrical shape; Array is a kind of cylinder
- tube(n = noun.body) tube-shaped structure - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure; Array is a kind of anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure
- tube(n = noun.artifact) metro, subway, subway system, underground - 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'" is a kind of railroad, railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system
is a kind of conduit
Derived forms verb tube4, adjective tubular1
has parts: anode, cathode, electrode, control grid, grid, plate
is a part of circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit
is a kind of electronic device
Derived form verb tube4
has particulars: tubule, salpinx, cochlea, vas, vessel
Derived forms adjective tubal1, verb tube4, verb tube2, verb tube1
Verb tube has 4 senses
- tube(v = verb.possession) Array - provide with a tube or insert a tube into; Array is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply
- tube(v = verb.motion) Array - convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" is one way to bring, convey, take
- tube(v = verb.motion) Array - ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day" is one way to ride
- tube(v = verb.contact) Array - place or enclose in a tube; Array is one way to enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap
Derived form noun tube4
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun tube4, noun tubing1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derived forms noun tube1, noun tube4, noun tube3
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
tube, n. [L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.].
- A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. [1913 Webster]
- A telescope. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. [1913 Webster]
- The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway."In the New York area, the subways running under the Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the
tube ." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
tube, v. t.
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tube, n. & v.
--n.
1 a long hollow rigid or flexible cylinder, esp. for holding or carrying air, liquids, etc.
2 a soft metal or plastic cylinder sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for holding a semi-liquid substance ready for use (a tube of toothpaste).
3 Anat. & Zool. a hollow cylindrical organ in the body (bronchial tubes; Fallopian tubes).
4 (often prec. by the) colloq. the London underground railway system (went by tube).
5 a a cathode-ray tube esp. in a television set. b (prec. by the) esp. US colloq. television.
6 US a thermionic valve.
7 = inner tube.
8 the cylindrical body of a wind instrument.
9 Austral. sl. a can of beer.
--v.tr.
1 equip with tubes.
2 enclose in a tube.
--n.
1 a long hollow rigid or flexible cylinder, esp. for holding or carrying air, liquids, etc.
2 a soft metal or plastic cylinder sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for holding a semi-liquid substance ready for use (a tube of toothpaste).
3 Anat. & Zool. a hollow cylindrical organ in the body (bronchial tubes; Fallopian tubes).
4 (often prec. by the) colloq. the London underground railway system (went by tube).
5 a a cathode-ray tube esp. in a television set. b (prec. by the) esp. US colloq. television.
6 US a thermionic valve.
7 = inner tube.
8 the cylindrical body of a wind instrument.
9 Austral. sl. a can of beer.
--v.tr.
1 equip with tubes.
2 enclose in a tube.
Derivative
tubeless adj. (esp. in sense 7 of n.). tubelike adj.
Etymology
F tube or L tubus
THESAURUS
tube
Amtrak, L, Photronic cell, adjutage, amplifier, anode, attenuator, audio-frequency tube, baggage train, ballast regulator, ballast tube, barrel, base, beam-switching tube, bole, branch, cable railroad, cable railway, cask, catheter, cathode, cathode-ray tube, channel, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway, color kinescope, column, convertor, current regulator, cylinder, cylindroid, damper, detector, direct-viewing tube, discharge tube, discriminator, dissector tube, doubler, drainpipe, drum, efflux tube, el, electric, electric railway, electric train, electrode, electron-image tube, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, express, express train, feeder, feeder line, filament, fire hose, flier, flue pipe, flume, focus tube, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, funnel, garden hose, gas phototube, gas pipe, generator, goods train, gravity-operated railway, grid, horse railway, hose, hosepipe, iconoscope, image dissector, image iconoscope, interurban, inverter, junction, kinescope, light railroad, lightning express, limited, limiter, line, local, local-oscillator tube, main line, metro, milk train, mixer tube, modulator, monorail, monoscope, multiplier, multiplier phototube, multipurpose tube, multivibrator, nipple, organ pipe, oscillator, output tube, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, phase inverter, photocathode, photoconductor cell, photomultiplier tube, phototube, photovoltaic cell, picture tube, pillar, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, plate, power tube, pulse generator, put through channels, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway, radio tube, radio-frequency tube, rail, rail line, railroad, railroad train, railway, rattler, receiving tube, rectifier tube, reed, reed pipe, regulator, repeater, roadbed, roadway, roll, roller, rolling stock, rouleau, shuttle, shuttle train, siamese, siamese connection, sidetrack, siding, siphon, snorkel, soft phototube, soil pipe, special, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, tap, terminal, terminus, track, train, tram, tramline, transducer, trestle, trigatron, trigger tube, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, turnout, underground, vacuum phototube, vacuum tube, valve, waste pipe, water pipe, way trainROGET THESAURUS
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Opening
N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.
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