Tube

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Subway \Sub"way`\, n.
     1. An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under
        a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph
        wires, etc., are conducted.
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     2. An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by
        electricity provided by an electric line running through
        the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the
        center portion of cities; -- called also {tube}, and in
        Britain, {underground}. In certain other countries (as in
        France or Russia) it is called the {metro}.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." --Milton.
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     3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid
        or other substance.
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     4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
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     5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under
        {Priming}, and {Friction}.
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     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.
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     7. (Zool.)
        (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.
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     8. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also
        (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. [Chiefly Eng.]
  
     Note: In the New York area, the subways running under the
           Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube.
           [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  
     {Capillary tube}, a tube of very fine bore. See {Capillary}.
        
  
     {Fire tube} (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue.
  
     {Tube coral}. (Zool.) Same as {Tubipore}.
  
     {Tube foot} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tube \Tube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tubed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Tubing}.]
     To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tube
       n 1: conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually
            cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids
            or gases [syn: {tubing}]
       2: electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes
          arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope [syn: {vacuum
          tube}, {thermionic vacuum tube}, {thermionic tube}, {electron
          tube}, {thermionic valve}]
       3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn: {pipe}]
       4: (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure [syn: {tube-shaped
          structure}]
       5: electric underground railway [syn: {metro}, {subway}, {underground}]
       v 1: provide with a tube or insert a tube into
       2: convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
       3: ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river
          on a hot summer day"
       4: place or enclose in a tube

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  194 Moby Thesaurus words for "tube":
     Amtrak, L, Photronic cell, adjutage, amplifier, anode, attenuator,
     audio-frequency tube, baggage train, ballast regulator,
     ballast tube, barrel, base, beam-switching tube, bole, branch,
     cable railroad, cable railway, cask, catheter, cathode,
     cathode-ray tube, channel, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway,
     color kinescope, column, convertor, current regulator, cylinder,
     cylindroid, damper, detector, direct-viewing tube, discharge tube,
     discriminator, dissector tube, doubler, drainpipe, drum,
     efflux tube, el, electric, electric railway, electric train,
     electrode, electron-image tube, elevated, elevated railway,
     embankment, express, express train, feeder, feeder line, filament,
     fire hose, flier, flue pipe, flume, focus tube, freight,
     freight train, freighter, funicular, funnel, garden hose,
     gas phototube, gas pipe, generator, goods train,
     gravity-operated railway, grid, horse railway, hose, hosepipe,
     iconoscope, image dissector, image iconoscope, interurban,
     inverter, junction, kinescope, light railroad, lightning express,
     limited, limiter, line, local, local-oscillator tube, main line,
     metro, milk train, mixer tube, modulator, monorail, monoscope,
     multiplier, multiplier phototube, multipurpose tube, multivibrator,
     nipple, organ pipe, oscillator, output tube, parliamentary,
     parliamentary train, passenger train, phase inverter, photocathode,
     photoconductor cell, photomultiplier tube, phototube,
     photovoltaic cell, picture tube, pillar, pipe, pipeline, pipette,
     piping, plate, power tube, pulse generator, put through channels,
     rack railway, rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway,
     radio tube, radio-frequency tube, rail, rail line, railroad,
     railroad train, railway, rattler, receiving tube, rectifier tube,
     reed, reed pipe, regulator, repeater, roadbed, roadway, roll,
     roller, rolling stock, rouleau, shuttle, shuttle train, siamese,
     siamese connection, sidetrack, siding, siphon, snorkel,
     soft phototube, soil pipe, special, standpipe, steam pipe, stem,
     straw, streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, subway,
     switchback, tap, terminal, terminus, track, train, tram, tramline,
     transducer, trestle, trigatron, trigger tube, trolley line, trunk,
     trunk line, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, turnout,
     underground, vacuum phototube, vacuum tube, valve, waste pipe,
     water pipe, way train
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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, Babylon 5, 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 (27 SEP 03) [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)