Definition of Tube

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Definition of Tube

Tube

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

A telescope.

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

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.

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.

One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

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Tube Quotations

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Edward Abbey

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
Clifford Stoll

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
Sandra Bullock

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.
Neil Patrick Harris

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
Ivan Pavlov

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
Ivan Pavlov

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
John Dyer

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
Bill Sienkiewicz

Tube Translations

tube in Afrikaans is buis
tube in Dutch is binnenband, luchtpijp, luchtband
tube in Finnish is putki
tube in French is outre, tube, tuyau
tube in Italian is tubetto, tubo, tubo

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