[
US
/ˈtjub, ˈtub/
]
[ UK /tjˈuːb/ ]
[ UK /tjˈuːb/ ]
NOUN
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
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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' - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
VERB
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ride or float on an inflated tube
We tubed down the river on a hot summer day - provide with a tube or insert a tube into
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convey in a tube
inside Paris, they used to tube mail - place or enclose in a tube
How To Use tube In A Sentence
- When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
- Aliquot 10μ l of the master mix for each DNA to be analyzed into a reaction tube.
- Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
- Gastric lavage for isolation of M tuberculosis is a well accepted method.
- The family didn't want a gastrostomy tube placed, but they weren't ready to say goodbye, either.
- Acid-fast staining should be done if tuberculosis is clinically suspected.
- However, for our purposes, we have used a working definition anchored on Haramiyavia, assuming that the unknown intersection between multituberculates and modern mammals is the appropriate break point.
- This will involve placing a small rubber tube called a catheter in the abscess to drain out the fluid.
- The estimated annual number of births affected with a neural tube defect is about 400,000 world wide.
- The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
