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Tube

noun

Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases. Synonym: tubing.

Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope. Synonyms: electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube.

A hollow cylindrical shape. Synonym: pipe.

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure. Synonym: tube-shaped structure.

An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city). Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, underground.

verb

(past & past part. tubed; pres. part. tubing)

Provide with a tube or insert a tube into.

Convey in a tube.

Ride or float on an inflated tube.

Place or enclose in a tube.

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... yard in length, and six inches in width; on this he wrote a series of words in large letters, and each word expressed some different accusation which had been brought against our Lord. He then rolled it up, placed it in a little hollow tube, fastened it carefully on the top of a reed, and presented this reed to Jesus, saying at the same time, with a contemptuous sneer, 'Behold the sceptre of thy kingdom; it contains thy titles, as ...

— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich

... the tube again. A couple of sentences passed and the car stopped by the roadside, a score of paces past the limit of the garden. Mr. Carlyle took out his notebook and wrote down the address of a firm of ...

— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah

... little deformed postilion, who solicits his customary fee. The old woman smoking her short pipe in the basket, pays very little attention to what is passing around her: cheered by the fumes of her tube, she lets the vanities of the world go their own way. Two passengers on the roof of the coach afford a good specimen of French and English manners. Ben Block, of the Centurion, surveys the subject of La Grande Monarque ...

— The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings - With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency • John Trusler

... allow six squares of toasted bread. If you have any cold boiled potatoes left over, add milk to them, make them hot and put them into a pastry bag. Decorate the edge of the toast with these mashed potatoes, using a small star tube; put them back in the oven until light brown. Make the fish into a creamed fish. Rub the butter and flour together, add a half pint of milk, add the fish and a palatable seasoning of salt and pepper. Dish the centers on top of the toast with this creamed fish ...

— Made-Over Dishes • S. T. Rorer

... heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard— All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard— For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy mercy ...

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