Tube /(?)/

Tube

n.
  1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
  2. A telescope.
  3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
  4. The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. (Bot.)
  5. A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. (Gun.)
  6. 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. (Steam Boilers)
  7. 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. (Zool.)
  8. A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. (Elec. Railways) (Colloq.)

Phrases & Compounds
Capillary tube
a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary.
Fire tube
a tube which forms a flue.
Tube coral
Same as Tubipore.
Tube foot
one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm.
Tube plate
a flue plate. See under Flue.
Tube pouch
a pouch containing priming tubes.
Tube spinner
any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera.
Water tube
a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.

Tube

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Tubed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tubing

  1. To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.