Word Finder - tube

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Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

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An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

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A tube of toothpaste.

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(often capitalized as Tube) 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.)

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I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.

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A tin can containing beer.

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A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

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A television.

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Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?

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• boob tube
• telly

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An idiot.

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To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

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She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.

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To ride an inner tube.

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They tubed down the Colorado River.

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To intubate.

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The patient was tubed.

This time he created enough suction to pull her nipple well into his mouth - feeding tube and all.

I think the tube must have injured my larynx.

He constructed one form of his coherer of a glass tube a few inches long filled with iron borings or brass filings, having contact plates or pins at the end.

Jarred from her thoughts, she began filling a tube with blue icing.

In the next experiment the air was compressed as before, and then allowed to escape through a long lead tube immersed in the water of a calorimeter, and finally collected in a bell jar.

He doesn't like the feeding tube.

When the tube filled, she connected it to the IV in the girl's arm.

He sealed his skin around the tube, forced the flow downward, and placed his hands on her, forcing her body to accept his blood.

They removed the feeding tube and fed him a semi-liquid diet of soft food for a few days.

The tube is then exhausted of its air, and attached to a bone or glass rod as a holder.

His attention was distracted momentarily as the feeding tube was switched to Carmen's other breast.

Damian shoved the other end of the tube into his neck, releasing his power.

They had removed the endotracheal tube, but he still had a feeding tube through his nose.

At her inquiry, the doctor said the air tube had not caused any physical damage to Alex's vocal cords.

Damian launched forward, snatching the tube and whipping out a knife.

Lind's anemometer, which consists simply of a U tube containing liquid with one end bent into a horizontal direction to face the wind, is perhaps the original form from which the tube class of instrument has sprung.

Between 1500 and 4000 metres the charge inside the unit tube is much less, only 0.000040.

By shaking or tapping the tube the original high resistance is restored.

He retrieved a jar from the small refrigerator and laid it next to a surgical knife, a large rubber tube, and a huge syringe.

The top slid open to reveal a tire patch kit containing two small patches and a tube of sealing adhesive.

But, as Branly showed, it is not universally true that the action of an electric wave is to reduce the resistance of a tube of powdered metal or cause the particles to cohere.

In later improvements the secondary circuit of this jigger was interrupted by a small condenser, and the terminals of the relay and local cell were connected to the plates of this condenser, whilst the sensitive tube was attached to the outer ends of the secondary circuit.

The splitting up of the vascular tube I into separate strands does not depend wholly upon the occurrence I of leaf-gaps.

As if Matthew thought the encouragement was intended for him, he latched onto her breast, creating a suction that sent tiny bubbles down the feeding tube.

The nurse thought his larynx might still be irritated from the endotracheal or feeding tube.

In Rhabdopleura each zooid forms its own delicate tube composed of a characteristic series of distinct rings.

The eyepiece slides into the tube cd, which screws into the brass ring ef, through two openings in which the oblong frame, containing the micrometer slides, passes.

The actual piercing organs are the mandibles, while the upper lip or labrum forms a sucking tube.

Thenard in 1808 by heating boron trioxide with potassium, in an iron tube.

This mixture burns with a green flame forming boron trioxide; whilst boron is deposited on passing the gas mixture through a hot tube, or on depressing a cold surface in the gas flame.

Boron chloride BC1 3 results when amorphous boron is heated in chlorine gas, or more readily, on passing a stream of chlorine over a heated mixture of boron trioxide and charcoal, the volatile product being condensed in a tube surrounded by a freezing mixture.

Boron and iodine do not combine directly, but gaseous hydriodic acid reacts with amorphous boron to form the iodide, BI 31 which can also be obtained by passing boron chloride and hydriodic acid through a red-hot porcelain tube.

It gives rise to various decomposition products such as pyridine, picoline, &c., when its vapour is passed through a red-hot tube.

By passing the vapour of this compound through a red-hot tube, it yields the isomeric a0- pyridylpyrrol, the potassium salt of which with methyl iodide gives a substance methylated both in the pyridine and pyrrol nuclei.

The great advantage of the tube anemometer lies in the fact that the exposed part can be mounted on a high pole, and requires no oiling or attention for years; and the registering part can be placed in any convenient position, no matter how far from the external part.

In the undulator apparatus, which is similar in general principle to the " siphon recorder " used in submarine telegraphy, a spring or falling weight moves a paper strip beneath one end of a fine silver tube, the other end of which dips into a vessel containing ink.

A fine glass siphon tube is suspended with freedom to move in only one degree, and is connected with the signal-coil and moves with it.

The short leg of the siphon tube dips into an insulated ink-bottle, so' that the ink it contains becomes electrified, while the long leg has its open end at a very small distance from a brass table, placed with its surface parallel to the plane in which the mouth of the leg moves, and over which a slip of paper may be passed at a uniform rate, as in the spark recorder.

When such a tube is inserted in series with a single voltaic cell and galvanometer it is found that the resistance of the tube is nearly infinite, provided the filings are not too tightly squeezed.

On creating an electric spark or wave in the neighbourhood of the tube the resistance suddenly falls to a few ohms and the cell sends a current through it.

Marconi, however, made the important discovery that if his sensitive tube or coherer had one terminal attached to a metal plate lying on the earth, or buried in it, and the other to an insulated plate elevated at a height above the ground, it could detect the presence of very feeble electric waves of a certain kind originating at a great distance.

At the receiving station Marconi connected a single voltaic cell B 1 and a sensitive telegraphic relay R in series with his tube of metallic filings C, and interposed certain little coils called choking coils.

One end of the sensitive tube was then connected to the earth and the other end to an antenna or insulated elevated conductor A2.

He caused the relay in series with the sensitive tube to set in action not only a telegraphic instrument but also the electromagnetic tapper, which was arranged so as to administer light blows on the under side of the sensitive tube when the latter passed into the conductive condition.

Instead of inserting the sensitive tube between the receiving antenna and the earth, he inserted the primary coil of a peculiar form of oscillation transformer and connected the terminals of the tube to the secondary circuit of the transformer.

Lodge arranged a mechanical tapper for the purpose which continually administered the small blow to the tube sufficient to keep the filings in a sensitive condition.

This hammer is arranged so that when the armature vibrates it gives little blows to the underside of the tube and shakes up the filings.

Also another condenser was added in parallel with the sensitive tube.

Fleming 5 invented special forms of the metallic contact or metallic filings sensitive tube.

In its course it passes through a glass tube wound over with two coils of wire; one of these is an oscillation coil through which the oscillations to be detected pass, and the other is in connexion with a telephone.