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English Dictionary: tube	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for tube
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tube n conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases Synonym(s): tube, tubing electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope Synonym(s): tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve a hollow cylindrical shape Synonym(s): pipe, tube (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure Synonym(s): tube, tube-shaped structure 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'" Synonym(s): metro, tube, underground, subway system, subway v provide with a tube or insert a tube into convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day" place or enclose in a tube
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Visceral \Vis"cer*al\, a. [Cf. F. visc[82]ral, LL. visceralis.] 1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic. 2. Fig.: Having deep sensibility. [R.] --Bp. Reynolds. {Visceral arches} (Anat.), the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts. {Visceral cavity} [or] {tube} (Anat.), the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal. {Visceral clefts} (Anat.), transverse clefts on the sides just back of the mouth in the vertebrate embryo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tube \Tube\, n. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway. [Chiefly Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tube \Tube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tubed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tubing}.] To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tube \Tube\, n. [L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.] 1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. 2. A telescope. [bd]Glazed optic tube.[b8] --Milton. 3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. 4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. 5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under {Priming}, and {Friction}. 6. (Steam Boilers) 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. 7. (Zo[94]l.) (a) 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}. (b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. {Capillary tube}, a tube of very fine bore. See {Capillary}. {Fire tube} (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue. {Tube coral}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Tubipore}. {Tube foot} (Zo[94]l.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm. {Tube plate}, [or] {Tube sheet} (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under {Flue}. {Tube pouch} (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes. {Tube spinner} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to {Tegenaria}, {Agelena}, and allied genera. {Water tube} (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
tube 1. n. A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Loony Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie. 2. [IBM] To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. "Tube me that note?"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tube 1. A {CRT} terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Loony Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie. 2. {electron tube}. 3. (IBM) To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. "Tube me that note." [{Jargon File}] (1996-02-05)