01 n. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
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A telescope.
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A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
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The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.(Bot.)
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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.(Steam Boilers)
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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.(Zool.) See: Tubeworm
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A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.(Elec. Railways) (Colloq.)
Phrases & compounds
Capillary tube —
a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary.
Fire tube —
a tube which forms a flue.
Tube coral —
Same as Tubipore.
Tube foot —
one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm.
Tube plate —
a flue plate. See under Flue.
Tube pouch —
a pouch containing priming tubes.
Tube spinner —
any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera.
Water tube —
a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.