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Meanings of tube in English
Portuguese
valvula termionica Catalan
vàlvula 
Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope.
Synonyms
Examples for "vacuum tube"
Examples for "vacuum tube"
1
It required the home-made vacuum tube to burn steadily when in use.
2
Under the curving vacuum tube a little further along, we found shelter.
3
Fleming's vacuum tube, however, represented a major breakthrough in the technology.
4
We stood back against the great curving side of the postal vacuum tube.
5
It was the first blood-collecting vacuum tube used on the runner.
1
Television be gan to look up a little in the middle thirties, after the electron tube was substituted for the mill-wheel.
2
I'd rather be a mass of electron tubes than a thing like a centipede-oh yes, I've seen that cartoon in yesterday's Chicago Tribune!
1
But she'd be dipped in dogshit before she'd believe that the disc was built by a thermionic valve technology.
An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
Usage of tube in English
1
A year later, a second tube was opened to serve downtown Manhattan.
2
John's voice, coming clear as day through the tube of seasoned meat.
3
The diaphragm and the speaking tube were the great sources of error.
4
The tube, N, indicates the level of the liquid in the vessel.
5
With the machine running, add 1 cup water through the feed tube.
6
The question came to him as though through a long, hollow tube.
7
GJ tube patients reported greater gains in QALMS but incurred higher costs.
8
That's about half a million people who use the tube every day.
9
But the medullary tube of the Vertebrates originates in the same way.
10
The tube is taken in the right hand, as shown in Fig.
11
As they went up the mountain the mercury in the tube fell.
12
It also poses major problems for anchoring the tube to the viaducts.
13
Thirty-five percent used enteral access devices to verify initial feeding tube placement.
14
The tube and nail should be inclined as shown in the sketch.
15
The weight of wrought iron in the great tube is 1600 tons.
16
I mounted this in my timber tube; the focus was ten feet.
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Tube across language varieties
United States of America
Common
South Africa
Common
Australia
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