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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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... efficient and economical steam driven high speed compressor plant must be installed so as to get the maximum power out of coal. The boiler room will contain two 250-H. P. water-tube boilers with automatic stokers and coal bin overhead holding two weeks' supply of coal. Steam pressure 175 lbs. As the firing of the boilers is automatic and requires practically no work on the part of the engineers, no firemen are needed. Ashes will also be removed automatically. ...

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... somewhat more simply constructed by using rubber connections in several places, thus eliminating a certain amount of glass blowing, and making a more flexible piece of apparatus. The side-arm of the separator may be made with two rubber connections,— one above and one below the tube leading to the potassium carbonate tube. The long return tube to the flask may be constructed with a rubber joint very near the carbonate tube and one near ...

— Organic Syntheses • James Bryant Conant

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... one forward and one aft, the capacity of each being 6,375 cubic feet. The supply of air for filling these is taken from the propeller draught by a slanting aluminium tube to the underside of the envelope, where it meets a longitudinal fabric hose which connects the two ballonet air inlets. Non-return fabric valves known as crab-pots are fitted in this fabric hose on either side of their junction with the air scoop. Two automatic air valves are fitted to the underside ...

— British Airships, Past, Present, and Future • George Whale

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... some with discs about their necks, some with chains or golden crescents upon the forehead, all wearing the burko [yashmak or face veil] covering the entire face with the exception of the eyes, and held in position between the eyebrows by the quaint tube-shaped selva, fastening it to the tarhah, the flowing black veil which nearly touches the ground behind, covers the head, and pulled down to the eyebrows leaves just the beautiful dark eyes to be seen, glancing up timidly—in this case—at ...

— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

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... ain't got no thousand dollars—ner ten," sneered Creede. "Why don't you bet yearlings? If you'd blow some of that hot air through a tube it'd melt rocks, I reckon. But talk cow, man; we ...

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