tube
IPA: tˈub
noun
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Britain, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (informal) The London Underground
verb
- (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
- To ride an inner tube.
- (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
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Examples of "tube" in Sentences
- It is passed down a tube that we call the _food tube_.
- Dar – For a tin tube is inserted for the passage of urine.
- The tube is a catheter (a thin tube) placed into the cecum, the first part of the large bowel (in the lower right abdomen).
- When an ovum is matured, it escapes from the ovary into the narrow tube referred to, called the _Fallopian tube_, and passes down into the cavity of the uterus.
- More rarely, cardiaccatheterization will be required: a thin tube is inserted into the heart through a vein and/or artery in either the leg or through the umbilicus (“belly button”).
- This test usually confirms the diagnosis. cardiac catheterization – a thin tube is inserted into the heart through a vein and/or artery in either the leg or through the umbilicus (“belly button”)
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – detailed images of the heart produced by magnets cardiac catheterization – a thin tube is inserted into the heart through a large vein and/or artery in either the side of the neck, or groin
- The doctors were also asked whether other issues had led them to recommend the heart test — called a cardiac catheterization — during which a thin tube is threaded to the heart to check how well it is working and to look for disease.
- The _middle ear_, it will be seen, is a drum with its stretched membrane like any other drum, and it too has a communication with the exterior air through a tube, the _Eustachian tube_, which leads from the drum into the back part of the throat.
- Diagnosis may also include: chest X-ray electrocardiogram (ECG) – a record of the electrical activity of the heart cardiac catheterization – a thin tube is inserted into the heart through a vein and/or artery in either the leg, the neck, or through the umbilicus (“belly button” - used in newborns only). cardiac MRI
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