tube
1. conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases (Freq. 26)
• Syn:
tubing
• Derivationally related forms:
tube (for: tubing), tubular
• Hypernyms:
conduit
• Hyponyms:
barrel, gun barrel, blowgun, blowpipe, blowtube,
blow tube, cannula, capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing, catheter,
cigarette holder, coil, column, chromatography column, drain, hose,
hosepipe, inner tube, mouthpiece, pea shooter, pipe, pipage,
piping, tobacco pipe, silencer, siphon, syphon, speaking tube,
stem, stent, straw, drinking straw, test tube, torpedo tube,
venturi, well point, wellpoint
2. electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope (Freq. 7)
• Syn:
vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve
• Hypernyms:
electronic device
• Hyponyms:
acorn tube, diode, rectifying tube, rectifying valve, electron multiplier,
gas-discharge tube, klystron, magnetron, pentode, television-camera tube, television pickup tube,
tetrode, triode, X-ray tube
• Part Holonyms:
circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
• Part Meronyms:
anode, cathode, electrode, grid, control grid, plate
3. a hollow cylindrical shape (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
pipe
• Hypernyms:
cylinder
4. (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
• Syn:
tube-shaped structure
• Derivationally related forms:
tubal
• Topics:
anatomy, general anatomy
• Hypernyms:
structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
• Hyponyms:
tubule, salpinx, cochlea, vessel, vas
5. 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'
• Syn:
metro, underground, subway system, subway
• Hypernyms:
railway, railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system
1. provide with a tube or insert a tube into
• Hypernyms:
supply, provide, render, furnish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. convey in a tube
- inside Paris, they used to tube mail
• Derivationally related forms:
tubing
• Hypernyms:
bring, convey, take
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. ride or float on an inflated tube
- We tubed down the river on a hot summer day
• Hypernyms:
ride
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
4. place or enclose in a tube
• Hypernyms:
envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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