单词 | tube |
释义 | tube (once / 264 pages) 1nv 2n 3n A tube is a pipe shape, a cylinder with a hollow space inside. If you're like most people, you sip your milkshake through a straw — a long, plastic tube. Chemists use glass tubes in labs, and plumbers work with pipes — tubes made of plastic and metal. Another kind of tube is the rubber one inside a tire. If you slide down a snowy hillside on an inflated tire tube, or ride through choppy water while sitting on one, you can also use tube as a verb. Though it's not true in the US, in London the subway is also familiarly known as the Tube. WORD FAMILYtube: tubal, tubed, tubeless, tubelike, tubes, tubing, tubular+/tubing: tubings/tubular: tubularly USAGE EXAMPLESAnd, hey, maybe the kid is unusually good at navigating the series of tubes. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) She is fed through a feeding tube and uses a ventilator much of the day to help her breathe. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) I administered diuretics and fitted an oxygen tube to his nostrils. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a hollow cylindrical shape Syn|Hyper pipe cylinder a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line 2n conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper tubing trans-Alaska pipeline an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez barrel, gun barrel a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe, blowtubea tube through which darts can be shot by blowing blow tube, blowpipe, blowtubea tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat cannulaa small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubinga tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action cathetera thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open cigarette holdera tube that holds a cigarette while it is being smoked coiltubing that is wound in a spiral chromatography column, columna vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands draintube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material hose, hosepipea flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas inner tubean inflatable rubber tube that fits inside the casing of a pneumatic tire mouthpiecethe tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth pea shootera straight narrow tube through which pellets (as dried peas) can be blown at a target pipage, pipe, pipinga long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. pipe, tobacco pipea tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco silencershort tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing siphon, syphona tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube speaking tubea tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another stemthe tube of a tobacco pipe stenta slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis drinking straw, strawa thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth test tubeglass tube closed at one end torpedo tubea tube near the waterline of a vessel through which a torpedo is fired venturia tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) well point, wellpointa perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area air hose, airlinea hose that carries air under pressure briar, briar pipea pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath calabash, calabash pipea pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd calumet, peace pipe, pipe of peacea highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) chimneypota short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft clay pipea pipe made of clay condensera hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat discharge pipea pipe through which fluids can be discharged drain, drainpipe, waste pipea pipe through which liquid is carried away drilling pipea series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud elbowa length of pipe with a sharp bend in it endotracheal tubea catheter that is inserted into the trachea through the mouth or nose in order to maintain an open air passage or to deliver oxygen or to permit the suctioning of mucus or to prevent aspiration of the stomach contents exhaust pipea pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler fire hosea large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire fuel line, gas line, petrol linea pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine garden hosea hose used for watering a lawn or garden calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipean oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water maina principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage manifolda pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes meerschauma pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum line, pipelinea pipe used to transport liquids or gases radiator hosea flexible hose between the radiator and the engine block riser, riser main, riser pipe, riser pipelinea vertical pipe in a building sparge pipea horizontal pipe having fine holes drilled throughout its length so as to deliver a spray of water standpipea vertical pipe steam line, steam pipea pipe conducting steam tailpipea pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car water cannon, watercannona hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters) conduit a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass 3n (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure Syn|Hypo|Hyper tube-shaped structure tubule a small tube salpinxa tube in the uterus or the ear cochleathe snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti vas, vessela tube in which a body fluid circulates microtubulea microscopically small tubule nephron, uriniferous tubuleany of the small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney uveoscleral pathwaya tubule that drains excess aqueous humor Eustachian tube, auditory tubeeither of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum blood vessela vessel in which blood circulates Fallopian tube, oviduct, uterine tubeeither of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus seminiferous tubuleany of the numerous long convoluted tubules in the testis which are the sites where spermatozoa mature vasa efferentiathe several highly convoluted tubules that lead from the rete testis to the vas deferens and form the head of the epididymis tracheaone of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing 4v provide with a tube or insert a tube into Hyper furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 5v convey in a tube inside Paris, they used to tube mail Hyper bring, convey, take take something or somebody with oneself somewhere 6v place or enclose in a tube Hyper enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering 7v ride or float on an inflated tube 2We tubed down the river on a hot summer day Hyper ride be carried or travel on or in a vehicle n electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube acorn tube a small vacuum tube; used at high frequencies diode, rectifying tube, rectifying valvea thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier electron multipliera vacuum tube that amplifies a flow of electrons gas-discharge tubea tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas klystronan electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation magnetrona diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators pentodea thermionic tube having five electrodes television pickup tube, television-camera tubea tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals tetrodea thermionic tube having four electrodes triodea thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes; fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible X-ray tubea vacuum tube containing a metal target onto which a beam of electrons is directed at high energy for the generation of X rays CRT, cathode-ray tubea vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen glow lampa gas-discharge tube with a hot cathode; used in stroboscopes glow tubea gas-discharge tube consisting of a cold cathode and a diode in a tube filled with gas; the color of the glow depends on the particular gas iconoscopethe first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin image orthicon, orthicona now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons electronic device a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically n an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) Syn|Hyper metro, subway, subway system, underground railroad, railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
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