tuben.
/tjuːb/, /tʃuːb/, U.S. /t(j)ub/ I. Artificial.
1.
a. A hollow body, usually cylindrical, and long in proportion to its diameter, of wood, metal, glass, or other material, used to convey or contain a liquid or fluid, or for other purposes; a pipe.A more recent and more generic term than pipe, in which the form of the thing is chiefly considered, and thus used in reference to many things to which pipe is not applied, pipe being an older term retained for tubes used for the passage of liquids, smoke, air, or gas, while tube is applied to most recent inventions; but the distinction is often arbitrary, depending on the custom of the workshops.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe
pipeOE
canal?a1425
conduit-pipec1425
tube1658
the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > hollow cylinder or tube
pipeOE
channela1387
cannela1400
canal?a1425
trump?1440
tunnel1545
clyster1578
cannon1588
bugle1615
tube1658
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Tube,..any long pipe through which water or other liquid substance is conveyed.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall i. 33 The Mercury in the [barometric] Tube fell down lower, about three inches, at the top of the Mountain then at the bottom.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. iv. 49 When the Sucker in a Pump is drawn, the space it filled in the Tube is certainly the same, whether any other body follows the motion of the Sucker or no.
1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 206 [In] a solar microscope..B, the tube containing the condensing lens.
1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 288 Lateral pressure on the sides of the tube of the gun.
1861 N. A. Woods Prince of Wales in Canada & U.S. 122 The whole Tube [of a tubular bridge] was first actually built in England and sent out piece meal.
b. = tubing n., material of a tubular form.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials in specific shape or form > [noun] > tube
tube1823
tubing1845
the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > material of tubular form
tube1823
tubing1845
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 78 Some feet or yards..of that more pliable composition tube, employed by the makers of beer engines.
1893 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 87 A piece of india rubber tube.
2. In specific applications usually indicated by context.
a. A glass or other tube used in chemistry; esp. = test-tube n. tube of safety = safety tube n. at safety n. Compounds 3.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > glass > test-tubes
dildo glassa1627
proof1791
tube1800
test-glass1827
test-tube1846
combustion-tube1861
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 60 Melt the phosphorus in boiling water, and apply to it one of the ends of the tube, while you hold the other in your mouth.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 207 A tube of safety is a tube open at its upper end, and having its lower end plunged in water.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 21 Glass tubes of various sizes closed at one end.
1842 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. (ed. 3) xiv. 307 The best tubes are those made of Bohemian potash glass, and used by Liebig in his analyses of organic bodies.
b. A tubular surgical instrument; a cannula; an intubation-tube.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > tube or cannula
cannule?a1425
cannula1616
gorgeret1739
gorget1740
tube1803
explorator1844
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 7 The tube is to be passed downwards until it again reaches the substance to be extracted.
1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) Tube, Œsophageal, Stomach Tube, a long elastic gum tube, capable of being passed into the œsophagus or stomach. Tube, Rectal,..similar to the last, which is sometimes passed into the colon.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. (at cited word) (Surgical tubes) a. An esophageal tube, capable of being passed into the stomach. b. An elastic gum tube passed per anum into the colon... c. A tracheal tube.
1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 July Owing to the depth of the wound two drainage tubes were introduced at the time of operation.
c. A fire-tube or water-tube in a steam-boiler; a boiler-tube.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > parts of > tubes or pipes
water tube1720
tube1833
water head1856
worm1857
cross-tubea1884
furnace-tube1888
feed collector1902
1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 32 In a long waggon~shaped boiler the tubes..should be made flat and broad enough to reach from side to side.
1903 Daily Chron. 7 Jan. 7/2 In the fire-tube or cylindrical boiler the fire and smoke went through the tubes, and in the water-tube the fire was outside the tubes and the water passed through them.
d. A small collapsible cylinder of tin or lead used to hold semi-liquid substances, as oil-colours.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > flexible tube
tube1841
squeeze tube1872
1841 Rand Brit. Patent 8863 Their contents may easily be squeezed out by collapsing the said tubes or cases.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2643/1 Collapsible tin tubes for artists' colors.
1881 [see tube-colour n. at Compounds 2]. e. In wool or worsted spinning: cf. tube yarn n. at Compounds 2, and tube v. 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > types of > parts of
mendoza1803
faller1807
headstock1825
rim wheel1827
traveller1830
ring spindle1837
carrying comb1844
whirler1860
coiler1873
breaking-frame1875
nosing motion1883
tube1884
weigh-box1884
check-band1892
presser eye1892
thread-board1892
1884 Western Morning News 5 Sept. 7/4 The foreign yarn trade keeps pretty brisk, particularly in lustre wefts, and similar yarns on the tube.
f. (See quot. 1877.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > cylinder
working barrel1735
tube1877
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tube,..4. the barrel of a chain-pump.
g. Electronics. A sealed container, evacuated or gas-filled, containing two or more electrodes between which an electric current can be made to flow; spec. (a) a cathode-ray tube; (b) (chiefly U.S.) a thermionic valve. Frequently in combination with preceding noun, as discharge tube, electron tube, picture tube, vacuum tube.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > [noun] > container
tube1859
Geissler tube1863
Crookes's tube1884
oscilloscope1915
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun]
tube1859
valve1905
thermionic valve1909
bottle1940
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > vacuum tube or thermionic valve
vacuum tube1859
trigger tube1894
audion1906
pliotron1915
diode1919
electron tube1919
negatron1919
pentode1919
power valve1919
tetrode1919
triode valve1919
magnetron1921
bright emitter1923
peanut valve1923
peanut1924
power tube1924
multiple valve1929
thyratron1929
heptode1932
hexode1933
pentagrid1933
acorn tube1934
octode1934
triode-pentode1936
triode-hexode1937
transitron1939
trochotron1947
steering diode1957
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > cathode-ray tube > [noun]
cathode-ray tube1905
tube1905
1859 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 148 15 The direct discharge is that which is visible when taken from two wires hermetically sealed in a vacuum tube.
1898 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 46 296 Hertz made the rays travel between two parallel plates of metal placed inside the discharge-tube.
1905 Electrician 16 June 335/1 The phosphorescent spot on the screen of the tube follows strictly any changes which occur in the strength of the field.
1915 Electrician 21 May 241/2 In the X-ray tube..the space charge effects are very much exaggerated.
1922 C. W. Taussig Bk. Radio ix. 111 The tubes used are 5 watt transmitting tubes.
1940 H. M. Watson et al. Understanding Radio v. 223 As you experiment with this one-tube set, you will hear many stations faintly.
1947 R. Lee Electronic Transformers & Circuits i. 3 The limitations which inhere in transformers often influence the choice of amplifier tubes.
1973 G. J. King Newnes Colour Television Servicing Man. I. i. 29/2 The output direct from the tripler is too high an impedance to accommodate the normal beam current swings of the tube without serious voltage fluctuations.
1981 L. Nashelsky & R. L. Boylestad Devices iv. 128 Production rose from about 1 million tubes in 1922 to about 100 million in 1937.
h. inner tube: see inner adj. 1i. Also elliptical.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre > in a tyre
tube1894
inner tube1895
1894 Ld. Albemarle & G. L. Hillier Cycling (rev. ed.) App. 471 The outer arch is removed, the inner tube carefully examined, the hole discovered—if necessary by inflating the tube and immersing it in water.
1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist (ed. 2) xi. 246 When the tube and cover are both in place..the air chamber is inflated by means of a pump.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 367 You can buy tubes..at gas stations and stands along the route.
i. A telephone. Cf. sense 7a and speaking-tube n. colloquial or slang.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone
telephone instrument1844
telephone1864
phone1884
telephone set1884
set?1891
tubec1899
handset1901
blower1922
the horn1945
satellite telephone1961
dog1979
satellite phone1982
1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xiii. 38 Mr. Underwood breathed through a mysterious tube, and Edgar appeared.]
c1899 C. H. Chambers in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) III. 401 (Rings off, and hangs up tube.) That is another mistake—that telephone.
1959 Esquire Nov. 70 Tube, can be television, but usually telephone. Example: Buzz me on the tube. Call me up.
j. A type of skate (see quot. 1923).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > skate > types of
rocker1820
High Dutcher1836
speed-skate1852
fen-runners1873
bobskate1903
tube1923
tube skate1923
clap skate1997
1923 E. Jessup Snow & Ice Sports 220 The ‘tubes’ are a comparatively recent departure in skate design... The blade..is set in a long hollow tube. Similar but wider tubes support the heel and front plates.
k. the tube, television, a television set; cf. box n.2. See also boob tube n.1 colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set
television set1924
television1929
home video1949
TV1949
box1950
transistor set1953
telly1954
idiot box1955
monitor1957
boob tube1959
goggle-box1959
transportable1959
the tube1959
portable1960
set1961
widescreen1982
1959 [see sense 2i].
1965 Sunday News (N.Y.) 4 Oct. 2 She..is making a name for herself as a singer on the tube.
1966 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 1 ii. 1 Let's catch the late show on the boob tube.
1972 Observer 31 Dec. 24/1 Turning to the tube in order to redress the balance with a spot of the old festive vulgarity.
1977 M. French Women's Room ii. viii. 87 I sit and watch the stupid boob tube.
1979 Radio Times 11 Aug. 19/1 ‘I see you on the tube a lot,’ an American said to me recently in a pub. ‘Oh really,’ I replied, ‘the Piccadilly line?’ ‘No,’ he said, ‘the tube, the dream machine.’
l. down the tube(s), lost, finished, in trouble; frequently in to go down the tube(s) = to go down the drain at drain n. 1e. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons
miscarry1602
to come off bluely1654
to buy the rabbit1807
flunk1823
to go wrong1827
slip1890
to fall (also go) by the wayside1898
crack1918
to go down the tube(s)1963
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [phrase] > done for
one's bread is bakedc1380
it is all dicky (with)1788
down the tube(s)1963
down the gurgler1981
1963 Amer. Speech 38 168 To fail to pass an examination:..go down the tubes.
1975 New Yorker 5 May 32/1 It would be ludicrous to end on a note of Chris going down the tube.
1977 J. D. MacDonald Condominium xii. 122 We've got too many goodies tucked into the Marliss Corporation to take a chance of it going down the tube.
1982 Listener 16 Dec. 35/3 The smile on Sir Freddie's face the week before it was revealed that he was down the tubes to the extent of something over £270 million was the smile of a consummate actor.
m. A bottle or can of beer. Australian colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > [noun] > specific quantity of
cue1603
cee1605
jug?1635
gun1674
ale kilderkin1704
swank1726
nip1736
pint1742
pt.1850
yard of ale1872
square1882
half1888
butcher1889
rabbit1895
rigger1911
sleever1936
tank1936
middy1941
tallboy1956
tube1969
tinnie1974
1969 Listener 24 Apr. 588/2 This..extrovert chunders..his way through the kangaroo valley of Earl's Court..buoyed up by innumerable tubes (bottles) of Foster's Beer.
1980 R. Hill Killing Kindness xx. 187 ‘What do you want to do?’.. Mow my lawn and then cool off with a tube of lager, thought Pascoe.
3. An optical instrument of tubular form, esp. a telescope: more fully optic tube. Now archaic.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope
trunk1610
trunk-glass1613
trunk-spectacle1613
telescope1619
tube1651
field glass1782
look-see1925
1651 W. Davenant Gondibert v. ii. 16 Others with Optick Tubes the Moons scant face..Attract through Glasses.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 4 Dec. (1976) IX. 384 Wrote a letter at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord Brouncker.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 14 Mar. (1976) IX. 482 My eyes being very bad; and..I forced to find a way to use by turns with my tube, one after another.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 490 Of his fair Deeds a distant View I took; But turn'd the Tube upon his Faults to look.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 387 Some grave optician..finds that though his tubes assist the sight, They cannot give it.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 262 On the tall decks their curious chiefs explore, With optic tube, our camp-encumber'd shore.
1867 G. Gilfillan Night iv. 116 To the silent tube in Herschel's hand A hundred suns spring up.
4. † a. Applied to a tobacco-pipe. poetic. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe
pipe1588
tobacco-pipe1596
gage1676
gun1708
tube1736
steamer1811
gum-bucket1893
1736 I. H. Browne Of Smoking 3 Pretty tube of mighty power, Charmer of an idle hour.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 55 With pressure of his thumb To adjust the fragrant charge of a short tube, That fumes beneath his nose.
b. A cigarette. slang.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette
cigarito1832
paper cigar1833
cigarette1842
papelito1845
coffin-nailc1865
fag1885
butt1893
pill1901
scag1915
nail1925
quirly1932
tab1934
burn1941
draw1946
tube1946
snout1950
cancer stick1958
straight1959
ciggy1962
square1970
bifter1989
lung dart1990
dart2000
1946 P. Larkin Jill 16 Christopher, extending his silver cigarette[-case], said with an uneasy smile: ‘Tube for anyone?’
1975 High Times Dec. 11/2 (advt.) Filter tipped tubes give a smoother smoke to the very end.
5. † a. A cannon; also a rifle or hand-gun. poetic.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun]
gun1339
enginec1380
great gunc1430
ordnancec1450
cannona1460
piece1512
spitfire1611
tube1763
barker1815
by and by1857
big gun1886
centre-fire1889
1763 W. Falconer Ode Duke of York 138 The ships their horrid tubes display, Tier over tier.
1801 Sporting Mag. 17 148 With curious skill the deathful tube is made.
1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth iii. 10 To point the tube, the lance to wield.
1897 R. Kipling in Times 17 July 13/6 Heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard.
b. A small pipe introduced through the vent, formerly used in firing cannon; a friction-tube n., quill-tube n. (a) at quill n.1 Compounds 2, or priming tube n. at priming n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > friction-tube, fuse, etc.
tube1797
friction-fuse1860
friction-tube1864
friction-primer1874
multi-choke1950
1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 230/2 Firing it [gunpowder] with tubes, introduced at a vent bored through the button and breech of the gun, of different lengths, so as to reach the different parts of the powder.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tube, in artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Tubes, for guns, a kind of portable priming, for insertion into the vent,—of various patterns.
1897 Chambers's Jrnl. 620/2 The Royal Engineers..have..submitted this tube-fuse to very crucial tests.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms
c. The inner cylinder of a built-up gun, upon which the outer case is shrunk. Cf. tubage n. 1b.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel > inner cylinder of built-up gun
tube1895
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
6.
a. A musical wind-instrument, a pipe. poetic. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun]
pipeOE
whewc1475
chalumeau1713
mouth pipe1728
tube1820
toodle-pipe1890
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 157 Solemn tubes, Blown by the serious Zephyrs, gave of sweet And wandering sounds, slow-breathed melodies.
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b. The main cylinder of a wind-instrument ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
7.
a. A pneumatic dispatch-tube.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > equipment for sending or delivering mail > [noun] > pneumatic dispatch tube
tube1860
1860 Once a Week 28 July 130/2 Written messages are sucked through tubes... We hear a whistle; this is to give notice that a despatch is about to be put into the tube at Mincing Lane, two-thirds of a mile distant.
1861 Engineer 12 51/3 The loads, in the pneumatic despatch tubes do not much exceed half-a-ton, unless the despatch carriages are coupled in trains of two or more.
1866 [see tube journey n. at Compounds 2]. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 182/1 A late act of Congress (1872) appropriates $15,000 for a pneumatic dispatch-tube between the Capitol and the Government Printing-Office, Washington.
1894 [see tube-room n. at Compounds 1a]. 1905 Daily Chron. 27 May . 4/3 From Whiteley's 6,194 parcels were dispatched in five hours, of which 78 per cent. could have been sent by tube.
b. The cylindrical tunnel in which an underground electric railway runs; also short for tube railway n. at Compounds 1e. colloquial. Also, any tunnel or tubular bridge for a railway. twopenny tube, the Central London Railway, opened in 1900: see twopenny adj. and n.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > tunnel
railway tunnel1827
railroad tunnel1836
tube1847
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > with specific situation or route > underground
sub-railway1835
underground railway1845
subway1864
underground1866
tube1900
tube railway1900
metro1904
Met1909
the Tube1924
U-bahn1938
clockwork orange1978
1847 Queen Victoria Jrnl. 15 Aug. (1868) 72 We passed the famous Swilly Rocks, and saw the works they are making for the tube for the railroad.
1900 H. D. Browne in Londoner 30 June (heading) The Twopenny Tube.
1900 Punch 4 July 7/1.
1901 Lancet 2 Nov. 1209/2 A good portion of the air must be driven backwards and forwards unchanged in the tube.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 24 Oct. 2/3 When the phrase ‘the twopenny tube’ came into existence..a similar electric ‘tube’ had been in regular running for close upon ten years.
1905 H. R. Haggard in Gardener's Year May 165 The first part of my journey..was by Tube.
8. Physics. A tubular figure conceived as being formed by lines of force or action passing through every point of a closed curve; as tube of flow (see flow n.1 1b), tube of force, tube of induction.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > specific figure of flow
tube of flow1878
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > [noun] > field > movements in
tube of force1878
fringing1893
1878 W. K. Clifford Elem. Dynamic 199 If we take a small closed curve, and draw lines of flow through all points on it, the tubular surface traced out by these lines is called a tube of flow.
1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 378 Tube of Flow.
1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 104 The portions of any surfaces in an electric field intercepted by the same tube of force are called corresponding surfaces,..the algebraic sum of the electricities included in the tube in its passage from any one surface to any other.
1902 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. Tubes of Force, aggregations of lines of force, either electrostatic or magnetic. They generally have a truncated, conical or pyramidal shape and are not hollow. Every cross-section contains the same number of lines.
II. Natural.
9. Anatomy and Zoology.
a. A hollow cylindrical vessel or organ in the animal body; a canal, duct, passage, or pipe, as in the circulatory, alimentary, respiratory, reproductive, or excretory systems; often preceded by a defining word, as alimentary tube, bronchial tube, Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, intestinal tube, etc.: see these words.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal
conduit1340
pipec1385
channela1387
porea1398
canal?a1425
cannel?1553
strait1558
canaliculus1661
tube1661
duct1667
tubule1677
ductus1699
funnel1712
cannule1719
infundibulum1799
meatus1800
tubulet1826
tubulus1826
canalicule1839
canalization1840
ductule1883
cf. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Tubo,..the pipe wherethrough the marrow of the backe bone runneth.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tube, a Conduit~pipe; also, the hollow of the back-bone, or the pipe through which the marrow thereof doth runne.]
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2)
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Fallopian Tubes, two slender Passages proceeding from the Womb.
1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 114 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) Part of the Eustachian Tube.
1756 J. Wathen in Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 215 I took that opportunity to examine the eustachian tube of each ear.
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 400 The œsophagus..that animated tube.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xli. 128 Connected by a slender tube with each mandible in spiders is a vessel with spiral folds, which seems properly to belong to this head.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica xi. 407 Its passage in the intestinal tube is attended with the same phenomena.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 584 The main depôts of lymphocytes..are round the hollow tubes of the body.
b. One of the siphons of a mollusc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc
ungulaa1382
mantlea1475
trunk1661
diaphragm1665
lid1681
operculum1681
ear1688
beard1697
corslet1753
scar1793
opercle1808
pleura1826
pallium1834
byssus1835
cephalic ganglia1835–6
opercule1836
lingual ribbon1839
tube1839
cloak1842
test1842
collar1847
testa1847
rachis1851
uncinus1851
land-shell1853
mantle cavity1853
mesopodium1853
propodium1853
radula1853
malacology1854
gill comb1861
pallial cavity1862
tongue-tootha1877
mesopode1877
odontophore1877
pallial chamber1877
shell-gland1877
rasp1879
protopodium1880
ctenidium1883
osphradium1883
shell-sac1883
tooth-ribbon1883
megalaesthete1885
rachidian1900
scungille1953
tentacle-sheath-
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. i. 7 It [sc. cuttle-fish] could,..take good aim by directing the tube or siphon on the under side of its body.
c. The penis. slang.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 715 I suppose the people gave him that nickname [sc. Mr de Kock] going about with his tube from one woman to another.
10. A hollow cylindrical channel in a plant; spec. in Botany the lower united portion of a gamopetalous corolla or gamosepalous calyx; also, a united circle of stamens.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > ridge channel > [noun]
wrinkle1545
crest1597
ruga1683
tubea1704
furrow1725
flute1728
stria1731
rib1740
carina1774
striolet1826
vallecula1856
channel1875
carination1880
rumination1889
striola1903
riblet1949
a1704 J. Locke Elem. Nat. Philos. ix, in Coll. Several Pieces (1720) 209 This [juice] is convey'd by the stalk up into the branches, and leaves, through little, and in some Plants, imperceptible tubes.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. iii. 7 Monopetalous [corolla]..consists of two Parts, viz. The Tube, or lower Part, which is usually Tube-shaped; and the Limb, or upper Part.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 310 Tubes white, brownish with age.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 394 Syngenesia. Stamens united by their Anthers into a tube, rarely by their Filaments also.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 187 The laticiferous tubes permeate the whole body of the plant, in most cases as a continuous system.
11.
a. Applied to other tubular or cylindrical objects or formations of natural origin.
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1831 London Lit. Gaz. 15 Jan. 44/2 Lightning Tubes—In the neighbourhood of the old castle of Remstein..there have been found this summer very firm and long vitreous tubes.
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 172 Fulgurite or Fulgorite, any rocky substance that has been fused or vitrified by lightning. More strictly applied to a bore or tube produced by the passage of lightning into a sandy soil.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxv. 362 The tube in fact resembled a vast organ-pipe.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 190 The molten matter..thus forms a hard stony tube lining the volcanic chimney.
1884 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 526 In sand or rock, where lightning has struck, it often forms long hollow tubes, known to the calmly discriminating geological intelligence as fulgurites.
b. Surfing. The hollow curve of a breaking wave.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave
pounder1927
dumper1933
take-off1935
greeny1940
beach break1954
beacher1956
big kahuna1959
greenback1959
close out1962
curl1962
shore break1962
shoulder1962
soup1962
tube1962
wall1962
face1963
peak1963
pipeline1963
set1963
reef break1965
surfable wave1965
point break1966
green room1968
slide1968
barrel1975
left-hander1980
A-frame1992
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > breaker > part
curl1962
shoulder1962
tube1962
1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/4 Tube, the area of a dumping wave between the breaking crest and the trough.
1968 Surfer Jan. 89/1 You get back inside the tube and the whole tunnel is glowing.
1979 National Geographic Feb. 235 (caption) Shootin' the tube, a surfer threads the eye of a breaker.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
tube attendant n.
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1908 Daily Chron. 15 Feb. 1/7 A tube attendant at the G.P.O.
tube-holder n.
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1897 Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 3/1 A cigar tube-holder that prevents the odoriferous tube from spoiling his pocket.
1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 618 The tube-holder is graduated so that the tube may be easily moved a distance of 2½ inches.
tube-room n.
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1894 Daily News 22 Feb. 2/1 About 30 feet of tube~room on ground floor and contents severely damaged by fire.
tube system n.
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1908 Installation News 2 92/2 The tube system [of electric wiring].
tube trade n.
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1900 Westm. Gaz. 8 Jan. 9/1 Severe competition in the tube trade.
tube-vase n.
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1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls ii. 40 They were so pretty to put in..little straight tube-vases.
tube-wall n.
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1857 P. H. Gosse Creation 226 The margin of the tube-wall.
tube-work n.
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1890 Daily News 9 Jan. 2/8 The advance applies to gas, water, and steam tubes, and all the tube works of England and Scotland are affected.
tube-worker n.
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1896 N. Brit. Daily Mail 8 July 2 The pensioner..is a Coatbridge man, having wrought as a tube-worker in the burgh.
b.
tube-rolling n.
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1908 Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 8/1 Tube-rolling..at 1s. 6d. per 1,000.
c.
tube-eyed adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > belonging to order Pulmonifera > of or belonging to Inoperculata > of family Helicidae > having eyes on stalk
tube-eyed1792
1792 R. Southey To Contemplation v I..watch'd the tube-eyed snail Creep o'er his long moon-glittering trail.
tube-like adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form
cannulate?a1425
fistulose?1440
pipedc1520
pipe-like1600
fistulous1601
tubulous1664
tubulary1673
tubular1682
cannulated1684
cannular1698
tubulated1713
tunnelled1713
tubulose1714
pipy1724
tubal1735
tubiform1745
tubulate1753
tube-shaped1760
tubuliform1794
fistuliform1805
tubular-shaped1815
tubed1816
canaliform1826
tunnel-shaped1826
tube-like1849
tunnelly1874
tunnel-like1880
tubar1887
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 27/1 Animals whose tube-like bodies are prolonged deeply into the common mass.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xviii. 291 Sometimes tube-like pieces, evidently rings of mucous membrane..are discharged.
tube-shaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form
cannulate?a1425
fistulose?1440
pipedc1520
pipe-like1600
fistulous1601
tubulous1664
tubulary1673
tubular1682
cannulated1684
cannular1698
tubulated1713
tunnelled1713
tubulose1714
pipy1724
tubal1735
tubiform1745
tubulate1753
tube-shaped1760
tubuliform1794
fistuliform1805
tubular-shaped1815
tubed1816
canaliform1826
tunnel-shaped1826
tube-like1849
tunnelly1874
tunnel-like1880
tubar1887
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. iii. 7 The..lower Part..is usually Tube-shaped.
1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 56 E[rica]aurea, tube-shaped yellow flowers on plants nearly 2 feet high.
d. In sense 2a.)
tube-apparatus n.
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1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xiv. 311 Sulphur may be combined with platina, and phosphorus with lime, in a tube apparatus.
tube atmolyser n.
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1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 140 Atmolysis, is best exhibited by means of an instrument called the tube-atmolyser.
tube-bath n.
ΚΠ
1830 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. (new ed.) xvi. 388 Tube-baths for the conveyance of limited temperatures either by the intermedium of water, solutions, or metals.
tube-chemistry n.
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1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vii. 221 Processes of this kind will be described and illustrated in Section xvi. on Tube Chemistry.
tube-furnace n.
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1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xiv. 304 Placing two bricks edgeways, across a loose square grate,..makes an excellent tube-furnace.
1842 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. (ed. 3) xix. 505 The tube furnace..is an excellent instrument for softening considerable lengths of tubes.
tube-receiver n.
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1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiv. 635 Make some closed tubes,..some tube receivers..and other useful apparatus.
tube-retort n.
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1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xix. 499 Tube retorts..are made by first closing the end of a piece of tube, and then [etc.].
e. (In sense 7b.)
tube bill n. bill n.3 3.
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1902 Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 11/1 The County Council has found itself unable to frame a Tube Bill.
tube conductor n.
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1909 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 9/4 Tube conductor's shocking death.
tube mileage n.
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1902 Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 10/1 The ‘tube’ mileage in London.
tube railway n.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > with specific situation or route > underground
sub-railway1835
underground railway1845
subway1864
underground1866
tube1900
tube railway1900
metro1904
Met1909
the Tube1924
U-bahn1938
clockwork orange1978
1900 Daily News 3 Dec. 5/2 One of the most useful of the new tube railways.
1906 C. Mansfield Girl & Gods vi The warm stench from the Tube railway assailed her nostrils.
tube-route n.
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1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 591/2 The lines of tube-route being chosen with a view to supplementing and completing the means of communication from the suburbs.
tube station n.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > on underground railway
tube station1913
1913 Daily News 28 Jan. 6 The trains that roar in and out of a tube station.
tube-train n.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > underground train
tube-train1901
clockwork orange1978
1901 Daily News 15 June 4/7 Journeying to and from the scenes of their labour in tube-trains.
tube traveller n.
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society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > traveller by rail > types of
commutation passenger1856
commuter1865
train jumper1879
tube traveller1903
rod-rider1904
1903 Westm. Gaz. 4 July 3/2 Thousands of Tube travellers.
tube tunnel n.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > tunnel > for underground electric railway
tube tunnel1910
1910 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 3/4 Macdonald..ran to the end of the train and jumped into the tube tunnel.
C2. Special combinations: † tube-marine n. Obsolete rendering Italian tuba (tromba) marina, the trumpet marine: see trumpet n. 2b.
Tube Alloys n. the code name of a section of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research formed in 1940 and concerned with research into the production of an atomic bomb.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > other organizations or departments
Tube Alloys1942
SHAPE1950
1942 J. Anderson in M. Gowing Brit. & Atomic Energy 1939–45 (1964) App. iii. 437 When you asked me to take over the supervision of work on the project known as ‘Tube Alloys’, it was contemplated that..a full scale production would be expected in this country.
1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 221 Imperial Chemicals Industries Limited agreed to release Mr. W. A. Akers to take charge of this directorate, which we called, for purposes of secrecy, the Directorate of ‘Tube Alloys’.
1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xxxv. 309 The British ‘Tube Alloys’ project, as our own nuclear bomb effort was called.
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tube-bearing adj. bearing a tube; spec. in Entomology having a tubular ovipositor, tubuliferous ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
tube-board n. a board above the reeds in a reed-organ in which are the tubes or sound-channels to which the wind passes from the reeds.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ > parts of
vibrator1862
percussion stop1875
striking-reed1875
knee-stop1876
percussion1879
tube-board1880
pedal1882
1880 A. J. Hipkins in Encycl. Brit. XI. 483/2 The channels, the resonators above the reeds [in the American organ] exactly correspond with the reeds, and are collectively known as the ‘tube-board’.
tube-breather n. (distinguished from gill-breather), an animal which breathes through tubes, tracheæ, or spiracles.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [noun] > breathing tube > animal that breathes through tubes
tube-breather1889
1889 Cent. Dict. at Gillbreather Tube-breather.
tube-brush n. a wire brush for cleaning out boiler-tubes or flues; also, a slender brush for cleaning the flexible tube of a feeding-bottle.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom
besomc1000
bast broom1357
brush1377
broom14..
sweepc1475
duster1575
bristle brush1601
broom-besom1693
flag-broom1697
stock-brush1700
whisk1745
birch-broom1747
hair-broom1753
spry1796
corn-broomc1810
pope's head1824
whisker1825
sweeping-brusha1828
swish1844
spoke-brush1851
whisk broom1857
Turk's head1859
wisp1875
tube-brush1877
bass-broom?1881
crumb-brush1884
dusting-brush1907
palmetto brush1913
suede brush1915
swale1949
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. (at cited word) Stillwell's tube-brush,..may be operated by pulling and pushing from the respective ends of the tubes.
tube-budding n. budding by means of a cylindrical ring of bark.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > grafting by budding
inoculation?1440
inoculating1598
oculation1611
budding1719
shield-budding1842
tube-budding1842
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 307 Sometimes the stock is shortened, and the ring put on its upper extremity, when it is called flute~budding, or terminal tube-budding.
tube-case n. in a steam-engine, the chamber containing the tubes of a surface-condenser.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > chambers or reservoirs
receiver1702
hot well1729
catchwater drain1744
steam-vessel1769
explosion chamber1839
uptake1839
smoke-box1846
combustion chamber1854
receiver1873
tube-case1890
1890 D. K. Clark Steam Engine II. 683 The water is driven through the tube-case by two centrifugal pumps in each engine-room.
tube-cast n. a cast of a kidney tubule excreted in the urine in Bright's disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > [noun] > cast
cast1867
tube-cast1873
hyaline cast1881
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 69 Tube casts..are for the most part hyaline and finely granular.
1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (1891) II. 154 Tube-casts comparable with those which occur in the urine in Bright's disease.
tube-chime n. a chime of tubular ‘bells’.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > tubular bells
tube-chime1887
tubular bells1919
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 June 3/2 Tube chimes for church towers—an English invention.
tube-clamp n. a grab for seizing and lifting well-tubes (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877).
tube-cleaner n. a tool or other device for cleaning boiler-tubes, etc. (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
tube-clip n. tongs for holding heated test-tubes; also a clamp or clip for gripping a pipe (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
tube-cock n. a valve operated by compressing an elastic tube fitted into the supply pipe (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
tube-colour n. paint packed in a collapsible tube.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint > types of
oila1536
primera1650
wash1698
paint oil1727
flat tint1821
flat1823
flatting1823
distemper1837
kalsomine1840
oil filler1846
calcimine1864
tube-colour1881
Ripolin1899
gloss enamel1908
gloss paint1926
jelly paint1958
silicate paint-
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints
oil colour1498
oila1536
oil paint1759
cake colour1784
colour cake1794
moist colour1842
powder colour1862
tube-colour1881
tempera1883
powder paint1911
poster colour1925
finger paint1935
poster paint1939
1881 Bouvier tr. Delamardelle & Goupil Painting on China 1 Thanks to the ingenious invention of Tube Colours.
tube-compass n. compasses with tubular telescopic legs (Knight).
tube-condenser n. (a) a bent glass tube with a stopper at each end through which a smaller tube is passed; (b) in a steam-engine, a condenser in which the cooling surface consists of tubes.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > miscellaneous apparatus
bain1477
speculum1650
filtering paper1651
wheel-fire1662
filter paper1670
sun furnace1763
respirator1789
candle-ball1794
rectifier1822
candle-bomb1823
filter1823
oxyhydrogen blowpipe1823
shade1837
graduator1839
pipette1839
thistle funnel1849
pressure tube1852
ozonizer1858
dialyser1861
Liebig condenser1861
Sprengel pump1866
Sprengel tube1866
water softener1867
mercury pump1869
Bunsen burner1870
dialysator1877
test-mixer1877
tube-condenser1877
Kipp1879
reflux condenser1880
policeman1888
converter1889
pressure boiler1891
spot plate1896
hydrogen electrode1898
sampler1902
reactor1903
fume-chamber1905
Permutit1910
microburner1911
salt bridge1915
precipitator1919
Raschig ring1920
microneedle1921
titrator1928
laboratory coatc1936
spray tower1937
precipitron1938
ion exchanger1941
potentiostat1942
chemostat1950
Knudsen pipette1951
pH-stat1956
cryopump1958
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > condensers
condenser1769
surface condenser1843
tube-condenser1877
pickle pot1903
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tube-condenser.
1890 D. K. Clark Steam Engine II. 641 The exhaust steam is condensed to the extent of two-thirds in a tube-condenser overhead.
tube-coral n. organ-pipe coral (see coral n.1 1b), or its polyp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > member of order Tubiporacae > member of family Tubiporidae
tubulary1708
tube-coral1876
tubiporid1895
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xiv. 245 Among the zoophytes we have cup-corals, star-corals, tube-corals.
tube counter n. Physics the now usual form of Geiger counter, as contrasted with the point-counter.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > measurement of ionizing radiation > [noun] > instrument for counting or recording
counter1924
point-counter1925
tube counter1930
radiation counter1934
ratemeter1941
1930 Physical Rev. 35 652/1 Automatic recording of the amount of the penetrating radiation coming from particular areas of the sky, using two tube-counters and a special ‘coincidence circuit’.
1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) i. 17 We shall only discuss the two [counters] that are most important.., viz. the point-counter and the tube-counter, both of which were introduced by Geiger.
tube-culture n. culture of a microbe in a test-tube.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > culture or medium
culture1880
blood culture1881
cultivation1881
culture medium1883
pure culture1883
agar1885
broth1885
subculture1885
tube-culture1886
bouillon1887
stab-culture1889
streak culture1892
blood agar1893
microculture1893
shake culture1894
streak plate1895
broth culture1897
slant1899
plating1900
stock culture1903
touch preparation1908
tissue culture1912
plaque1924
slope1925
agar-agar1929
isolate1931
MacConkey1938
auxanogram1949
lawn1951
monolayer1952
replica plate1952
1886 H. M. Biggs tr. F. Hueppe Methods Bacteriol. Investig. 143 The changes in such a tube-culture after the inoculation with the bacteria vary considerably.
tube curare n. curare kept or transported in bamboo tubes.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > poisons > [noun] > others
oxalic acid1788
nicotine1817
alkarsin1838
tetanine1857
muscarine1869
cinnoline1883
saprine1887
isocyanic acid1891
mescaline1896
toxicodendrol1898
tube curare1898
tulipine1900
fluoroacetamide1909
thalassin1909
yperite1917
protoanemonin1920
Lewisite1921
organochloride1966
1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 74 i. 284 Paracurara, or tube curara, is imported in bamboo tubes, and is the variety now usually met with in commerce.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia III. 300/3 Preparations have been classified according to the containers used for them: pot curare in earthenware jars; tube curare in bamboo; and calabash curare in gourds.
tube-cutter n. a tool for cutting off metal pipes, a pipe-cutter.
tube-cutting n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [noun] > cutting
tube-cutting1901
1901 L. M. Waterhouse Conduit Wiring 43 In all conduit work a certain amount of tube cutting is necessary.
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tube-door n. a door in the smoke-box of a steam-engine, giving access to the flues (Knight).
tube-drawer n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > tube- or pipe-maker
tube-drawer1858
tube-maker1888
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tube-drawer, a maker of metal piping.
1897 Daily News 7 May 7/4 Consumers of iron—engineers' ironfounders, bridge-builders, rolling-stock manufacturers, and tube-drawers.
tube-drawing n. the making of metal tubes by drawing roughly shaped cylinders through gauged holes or over a triblet; also withdrawal of boiler-tubes for inspection or repair.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > pressing or drawing > tube-making
tube-drawing1835
tube-making1898
pilgering1902
impact extrusion1935
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 61 The foundations of kindred works, such as..tube-drawing apparatus.
tube-expander n. = tube-fastener n.
tube-fastener n. a tool for fixing the ends of boiler-tubes in the tube-plate by expanding their ends against the holes in the plate (Knight).
tube-fed adj. fed, sometimes forcibly, by passing nourishment through a tube into the stomach.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed through tube
tube-fed1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 3/2 Tube-fed Suffragettes.
tube-feed n.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > methods of feeding
spoonage1586
hand feeding1750
gavage1889
forced feeding1901
force-feeding1909
self-feeding1917
tube-feed1964
tube-feeding1964
1964 Lancet 26 Dec. 1349/2 Most babies were getting their first tube-feed within 2 hours of birth.
1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 June 1493/1 More work is needed to assess the relative merits of these proprietary diets compared with the tube feeds, prepared in hospitals.
tube-feeding n.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > methods of feeding
spoonage1586
hand feeding1750
gavage1889
forced feeding1901
force-feeding1909
self-feeding1917
tube-feed1964
tube-feeding1964
1964 Lancet 26 Dec. 1351/1 Tube-feeding is a very much simpler procedure.
1974 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Jan. 108/1 The ethical problems of prolonged tube-feeding.
tube-ferrule n. a ring or thimble forced into the end of a boiler-tube to fix it in the tube-plate (Knight).
tube filling machine n. an apparatus for filling collapsible tubes (see sense 2b).
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1932 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 19/6 Tube Filling Machines.
tube-filter n. in a tube-well, a strainer to prevent gravel from choking the pump (Knight).
tube-firing n. ? the use of a torpedo-tube.
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1901 Scotsman 13 Mar. 9/8 The crews however practised tube-firing.
tube-flower n. a tropical verbenaceous plant, Clerodendron Siphonanthus, in which the corolla is funnel-shaped with a very long tube ( Treasury Bot. 1866).
tube-flue n. a fire-tube in a steam-boiler.
tube-foot n. one of the numerous ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > member of > parts of > ambulacrum > ambulacral tube
podion1858
pedicel1883
tube-foot1888
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 551 The tube feet are either partially or completely retractile.
tube-former n. a machine for making small tubes.
tube-frame n. a tube roving-frame.
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1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 96/1 The tube frame..Instead of cans,..is provided with revolving horizontal cylinders... The rove which it produces has no twist.
tube-funnel n. a glass funnel prolonged at the bottom into a tube, a funnel-tube.
tube-fuse n. (see sense 5b).
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1897 Chambers's Jrnl. 620/2 The Royal Engineers..have..submitted this tube-fuse to very crucial tests.
tube-germination n. the production of a germ-tube in the germination of a spore.
tube-head n. = tube-plate n. (Webster, 1911).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > parts of > plates
shell1839
shell-plate1857
tube-plate1864
throat plate1872
tube-sheet1877
shell-plating1894
tube-head1911
1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tube-head.
tube-hearted adj. having a series of pulsating sinuses instead of a heart, as the Amphioxus ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
tube-ignition n. in the internal combustion engine, ignition of the charge by a hot tube.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > ignition > types of
pre-ignition1898
auto-ignition1901
magneto ignition1902
tube-ignition1903
coil ignition1911
cold starting1930
compression-ignition1936
1903 Motor. Ann. 220 Tube-ignition is satisfactory for a fixed engine.
tube journey n. a journey in a tube, spec. a journey by underground railway.
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society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > a journey by railway > by underground railway
tube journey1866
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 2 Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube, by atmospheric pressure from Winchester to Newcastle... The tube-journey can never lend much to picture and narrative.
1972 ‘C. Fremlin’ Appointment with Yesterday i. 5 No one could guess..that there is one..that has left its identity behind not just for the duration of the tube journey, but for ever.
tube-lift n. a lift for the conveyance of passengers from street-level to an underground railway or vice versa.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > lift or hoist
steam elevator1801
hoist1835
lift1851
elevator1853
tube-lift1915
stairlift1977
1915 E. Wallace Man who bought London ii. 19 The ‘tube’ lift was crowded.
1935 E. Farjeon Nursery in Nineties 428 Once she had ventured into a tube-lift—‘But never again, my dear Eleanor!’
tube-machine n. a tube-drawing machine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > equipment for making tubes, pipes, or rings
wortlea1525
triblet1611
tube-machine1891
tube-mill1909
1891 Cent. Dict. Tube-machine.
1901 L. M. Waterhouse Conduit Wiring 8 This strip..is passed through a tube machine from which it emerges as a perfectly smooth and regular tube.
tube-maker n. (a) one who makes tubing; (b) a tube-dwelling spider or annelid.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > tube- or pipe-maker
tube-drawer1858
tube-maker1888
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > tube-dwelling
tube-maker1888
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Sabelliformia > member of
sea-pipe1755
pipe-worm1774
tube-worm1813
tubicole1842
fan worm1851
tube-maker1888
1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Tube-makers, the Tubicolæ.
1890 Daily News 6 Oct. 2/5 Tube makers have this week advanced their discounts 5 per cent.
tube-making n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > pressing or drawing > tube-making
tube-drawing1835
tube-making1898
pilgering1902
impact extrusion1935
1898 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 8/2 The amalgamation of all the big tube-making concerns in Scotland.
tube-man n. a conductor on a tube railway train.
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1926 Glasgow Herald 22 July 8 ‘Passing Gloucester Road’ shouts the Tube-man.
tube map n. a map of an underground-railway system.
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1962 J. Braine Life at Top xxiii. 256 I used to have a Tube map on my bedroom wall when I was at College?
1977 Times 15 Nov. 17/8 The Bakerloo line on the tube map.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > marine trumpet
trump marine1667
trumpet marine1675
tube-marine1694
tromba marina1776
nun's fiddle1903
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony viii. 200 The Tube-Marine, or Sea-Trumpet..fully expresseth the Trumpet.
tube-medusa n. a medusa with an internal system of tubes; a siphonophore.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > member of
siphonophore1842
tube-medusa1860
siphonophoran1888
1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea x. 243 Among the Tube Medusæ is also classed the pleasing Velella.
tube-mill n. (a) a tube-making establishment or machine; (b) a mill for pulverizing ore, etc., which is placed in a revolving cylinder with loose flints or pebbles.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for crushing ore
stamping-mill1552
bucker1653
buck1683
stamp-mill1752
Ball stamp1860
jaw-breaker1877
jaw-crusher1877
spaller1877
arrastre1881
trapiche1881
gravitation stamp1894
ball mill1895
gravity stamp1903
slugger1903
tube-mill1909
society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > equipment for making tubes, pipes, or rings
wortlea1525
triblet1611
tube-machine1891
tube-mill1909
society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > rod- or tube-mill
rod mill1817
tube-mill1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 June 9/3 The addition of eighty stamps and three tube mills at the Nourse Mines.
tube-nosed adj. tubinarial ( Cent. Dict.).
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tube-packing n. packing to prevent water reaching the tube of an oil-well (Knight).
tube-plate n. the plate in which the ends of the boiler-tubes are set.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > parts of > plates
shell1839
shell-plate1857
tube-plate1864
throat plate1872
tube-sheet1877
shell-plating1894
tube-head1911
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tube-plate.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. 167 Leaks about tubes and tube-plates are most frequently caused by forced steaming.
tube-plug n. a plug or stopper for boiler-tubes in case of leakage (Knight).
tube-pouch n. a pouch for priming-tubes (Webster, 1864).
tube roving-frame n. = tube roving-machine n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > drawing or twisting > equipment for > types of
tube roving-frame1839
tube roving-machine1839
jack roving frame1843
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 355 The Bobbin and Fly frame is now the great roving machine of the cotton manufacture; to which may be added, for coarse spinning, the tube roving frame.
tube roving-machine n. a roving-frame having revolving horizontal cylinders instead of conical cans.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > drawing or twisting > equipment for
roving frame?1783
billy1795
tube roving-machine1839
rover1862
slubber1897
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > drawing or twisting > equipment for > types of
tube roving-frame1839
tube roving-machine1839
jack roving frame1843
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 354 The cotton sliver receives a twist..in the bobbin and fly frame, or..in the tube-roving machine.
tube-saw n. a cylindrical saw (Webster, 1911).
tube-scaler n.
tube-scraper n. = tube-cleaner n. (Knight).
tube-sheet n. = tube-plate n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > parts of > plates
shell1839
shell-plate1857
tube-plate1864
throat plate1872
tube-sheet1877
shell-plating1894
tube-head1911
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tube~sheet.
1903 Daily Chron. 20 Jan. 6/3 The boiler tubes getting choked up..through the tubes leaking in the back tube sheet.
tube-shell n. a bivalve mollusc of the family Tubicolæ or Gastrochænidæ, distinguished by having a shelly tube enclosing the siphons, in addition to the ordinary valves of the shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Gastrochaenidae
watering-pot shell1776
water-pot shell?a1813
saxicave1826
rock borer1835
tube-shell1861
flask-shell1868
tubivalve1882
1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 249 Family Gastrochænidæ. (Tube-Shells).
tube shelter n. an underground tube station used as an air-raid shelter; also attributive.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > air-raid shelter
police box1855
air raid shelter1917
shelter1918
surface shelter1922
Anderson shelter1939
dugout1940
Morrison shelter1941
tube shelter1942
1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air xi. 196 We went..by tube... I wanted to see how the tube shelter business was working out.
1943 C. Milburn Diary 4 Mar. (1979) 170 There was a terrible accident at a tube shelter last night after the sirens had sounded in London.
1962 Times 23 Jan. 13/4 Henry Moore's Tube-Shelter drawings.
tube-shutter n. a shutter closing the outer end of a submerged torpedo-tube (Webster, 1911).
tube skate n. = sense 2j above.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > skate > types of
rocker1820
High Dutcher1836
speed-skate1852
fen-runners1873
bobskate1903
tube1923
tube skate1923
clap skate1997
1923 E. Jessup Snow & Ice Sports 230 ‘Tube’ skates.
1975 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 19 Dec. 12/3 As a reporter who has covered various classifications of professional hockey since the invention of tube skates, it is my considered opinion that Robert Earle Clarke is one of the most adept ankle-tappers in the history of the game.
tube sock n. an elasticized sock with no shaping for the heel.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > types of > short stocking or sock > types of
tabi1616
bed-sock1869
sockette1950
tube sock1976
1976 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Jan. 4/2 Monday morning I bought a striped blue pair of training shoes,..tube socks, a sweatband and a book called ‘On the Road to Self Improvement: The Joy of Jogging’.
tube-spinner n. = tube-weaver n.
tube steak n. slang a hot dog, a frankfurter.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage
franchemyle1381
herbelade?c1390
haggisc1400
black puddinga1450
blood puddingc1450
bloodinga1500
liveringa1500
haggis pudding1545
white pudding1578
swine's pudding1579
hog's pudding1583
Bolognian sausage1596
bloodling1598
andouille1605
andouillet1611
cervelat1613
mortadella1613
polony1654
blacking1674
hacking1674
whiting1674
Oxford sausagec1700
saucisson1772
German sausage1773
saveloy1784
blood sausage1799
white hawse1819
liver sausage1820
black pot1825
chipolata1830
Bologna sausage1833
butifarra1836
mettwurst1836
Cambridge sausage1840
boudin1845
chorizo1846
German1847
liverwurst1852
salami1852
station-Jack1853
leberwurst1855
wurst1855
blutwurst1856
bag of mystery1864
Vienna sausage1865
summer sausage1874
wienerwurst1875
mealy pudding1880
whitepot1880
wiener1880
erbswurst1885
pepperoni1888
mystery bag1889
red-hot1890
weenie1891
hot dog1892
frankfurter1894
sav?1894
Coney Island1895
coney1902
garlic sausage1905
boloney1907
kishke1907
drisheen1910
bratwurst1911
banger1919
cocktail sausage1927
boerewors1930
soy sausage1933
thuringer1933
frank1936
fish sausage1937
knackwurst1939
foot-long1941
starver1941
soya sausage1943
soysage1943
soya link1944
brat1949
Vienna1952
kielbasa1953
Coney dog1954
tube steak1963
Weisswurst1963
Cumberland sausage1966
merguez1966
tripe sausage1966
schinkenwurst1967
boerie1981
'nduja1996
1963 Amer. Speech 38 272 Frankfurters are tube steaks.
1978 Boston Globe 15 Aug. 1/1 The food isn't bad which is mainly tube steaks (hot dogs).
tube-stopper n. = tube-plug n.
tube-surface n. the heating or cooling surface comprised in the tubes of a boiler or condenser ( Funk's Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. 1895).
tube top n. a women's close-fitting elasticated top reaching from the waist to under-arm level.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > other
corset1299
overbody1535
jupon1542
jup1603
Pierrot?1789
chemisette1796
spencer1799
jupe1810
jelick1816
railly1819
rail1820
Zouave1859
Basque1860
casaque1872
casaquin1879
overbodice1897
choli1907
halter1935
tube top1974
boob tube1977
bustier1978
1974 News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 24 Apr. 4-c (advt.) Calico-print elasticized tube tops!
1984 New Yorker 23 Apr. 42/1 She was wearing khaki shorts and a lime-green tube top.
tube-valve n. a tubular valve.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > others
washer1596
turncock1702
air cock1709
Jack-in-the-box1728
runner1754
stop-valve1829
three-way cock1838
ball valve1839
relief valve1846
poppet valve1851
plunger valve1854
pot-lid1856
reflux valve1857
screw-down1864
mica valve1880
tide flap1884
tube-valve1884
swing-tap1892
relay valve1894
Schrader1895
pilot valve1900
mixer valve1904
spool valve1908
spill valve1922
safety valving1930
three-way1939
1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Tube-valve.
1899 Daily News 16 Jan. 7/3 The tube-valve that set those massive hydraulic triggers free.
tube-vice n. a pipe-vice.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2645/2 Tube-vise, one for grasping tubes and pipes.
1901 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 29 In the tube vice..the teeth in the V-shaped upper jaw grip the pipe or tube at several points.
tube-weaver n. a spider which spins a tubular nest or lair.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Agalenidae > agalena naevia
tube-weaver1885
1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 233 The arbor vitæ hedge, where numbers of the speckled Tubeweaver (Agalena nævia) yearly spin their broad snares.
tube-well n. an iron pipe with a solid steel point, and with lateral perforations towards the point, which is driven into the earth until a water-bearing stratum is reached, when a suction pump is applied to the upper end.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > pipe operating by suction
sucking-pipe1699
sucker1838
driven well1868
tube-well1877
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tube-well.
1885 Daily News 7 Feb. 3/2 Pack saddles for mules, and tube-wells.
tube-whistle n. a whistle having a tube for the conveyance of the sound in signalling to a distant floor or apartment of a building.
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1886 Boy's Own Paper 9 Oct. 31/1 He whistles down by means of a tube-whistle.
tube-worm n. a tubicolous worm; a pipe-worm.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Sabelliformia > member of
sea-pipe1755
pipe-worm1774
tube-worm1813
tubicole1842
fan worm1851
tube-maker1888
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Sipunculus Tube-worm.
1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas viii. 194 The case of the concealed animals, such as the Piddock or the Tube-worm,..presents almost equal difficulties.
1981 Sci. Amer. May 90/3 Occasionally a crab would climb the stalk of a tube worm, presumably to attack its plume.
tube-wrench n. a wrench for gripping pipes or tubes, a pipe-wrench.
tube yarn n. yarn passed through a tube in the process of manufacture.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > that has undergone other process of manufacture
sister's thread1572
bundle-yarn1883
tube yarn1891
1891 Daily News 2 Oct. 2/6 Single yarns, tube yarns, and mohair yarns.
Derivatives
ˈtubeful n. as much as a tube will hold.
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1897 G. C. Bateman Vivarium vii. 292 One or more tubefuls [printed tubesful] of meat can be inserted into the gullet of each Reptile.
ˈtubeless adj. having no tube or tubes.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form > having no
tubeless1855
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective] > fitted with tyres > having no tube (of tyres)
tubeless1855
1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 206 Huyghens made his observations with a tubeless telescope.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 284/1 The Fleuss or ‘Tubeless Tyre’.
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the Tube colloquial the underground railway network in London.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > with specific situation or route > underground
sub-railway1835
underground railway1845
subway1864
underground1866
tube1900
tube railway1900
metro1904
Met1909
the Tube1924
U-bahn1938
clockwork orange1978
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. i. 223 Hurrying along the rat-runs of the Tube, she slipped her hand into his pocket.
1960 G. Lamming Pleasures of Exile 218 The factory boy's anger expressed on bus or in the Tube, strikes them as uncouth.
1986 O. Clark Diary 23 Aug. (1998) 186 I went to my old cornershop, bought another Brew and took the tube to Hampstead.
2011 C. Taylor Londoners 413 I don't like getting up in the morning and going on the Tube.
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tube ride n. Surfing a manoeuvre in which a surfer rides in the hollow curve formed by a breaking wave; cf. sense 11b.
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1978 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 27 Mar. 1 b/5 John Gevey racked up enough points for third late in the heat with an eye-catching frontside through-the-lip and a tube ride.
2013 P. J. Westwick & P. Neushul World in Curl 142 The tube ride replaced the hang ten as the ultimate goal of surfing.
tube rider n. Surfing a surfer who rides in the hollow curve formed by a breaking wave.
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1976 Surfer May 65/2 I'd say Shaun is the best tube rider because of his control and his ability to turn around sections in the tube.
2011 S. Tomson Surfer's Code (rev. ed.) iv. 44 I felt that I had cemented my reputation not only as the best surfer in the world, but also as the best tube rider.
tube riding n. Surfing the action or practice of riding in the hollow curve formed by a breaking wave.
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1965 J. Kelly Surf & Sea iii. 43 The hottest position on a wave is riding under the curling crest... This is called tube riding.
2006 T. Anderson Riding Magic Carpet (2008) iii. 61 The waves that come through the Fosse de Capbreton pitch forward perfectly for tube riding.
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A woman's close-fitting, sheath-like garment, frequently of simple design without darts or other tailoring; a tube dress, skirt, etc. Cf. boob tube n.2
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > other > article of
surplice1382
cento1610
fit1831
Tom and Jerry1832
breaster1841
princess cut1877
frump1886
trail1896
turn-down1896
peekaboo1908
see-through1937
zip-up1942
smart casual1943
classic1948
hipster1948
A-line1955
polo1967
tube1975
1948 Vogue Oct. 43 Skirts range from Dior's full stiff uneven hemlines..to Fath's test tubes.]
1975 Country Life 13 Feb. 406/1 We are taking to the tube. Tightening our skirts, that is.
1983 Times 18 Oct. 10/3 A fluid silk dress..stuffed into a jersey tube at the hips looked rather clumsy.
1986 Slimming Nov. 15/3 The sweater dress is the hardest-to-wear-well garment around. Any plain-knit tube is extremely enlarging and unkindly guaranteed to grab just where you wish it wouldn't.
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The cylindrical metal housing on a battleship or submarine from which a torpedo is discharged; = torpedo-tube n. at torpedo n. Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > tube from which torpedo discharged
tube1881
1881 Naval Encycl. 814/1 The torpedo can be projected from tubes under water either right ahead or on the broadside.
1928 Observer 11 Mar. 17/4 The King of Afghanistan will be given a lesson in torpedo firing and himself discharge a ‘mouldy’ from one of L22's tubes.
1942 G. Hackforth-Jones One-One-One i. 7 Those [torpedoes] ready for firing lying concealed in the tubes..were the pride of the ‘Fore-ends’ crew.
1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 879/2 The world's first real torpedoboat was H.M.S. Lightning, launched in 1876 to carry spar torpedoes, but modified in 1879 by the addition of two above-water tubes for the discharge of Whitehead torpedoes.
1989 Ships Mar. 11/2 When completed she will be armed with four 21-inch tubes, mounted amidships, for Gould Mk48 heavyweight ASW torpedoes or sub Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
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plural. The Fallopian tubes. Frequently in to have one's tubes tied, etc.: to undergo sterilization by tubal ligation. slang.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > Fallopian tubes
womb trumpet1663
Fallopian tube1676
oviduct1703
tubes1970
salpinx-
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > undergo or perform operation on specific part or condition [verb (intransitive)] > operations of female sex organs
to have one's tubes tied1970
1970 J. Didion Play it as it Lays xlv. 120 ‘Pelvic abscess.’ The girl loosened her wrapper and absently stroked her collarbone. ‘All through my tubes.’
1974 K. Millett Flying iv. 404 Too old to have more children, afraid of pregnancy and now tying her tubes.
1984 D. Lodge Small World iv. iii. 277 We had no children, not by choice, something to do with Gertrude's tubes.
1987 K. Vonnegut Bluebeard (1988) vi. 54 Her mother was thinking of having her tubes tied.
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tube dress n. a close-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders; a chemise dress.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > hanging straight from shoulders
chemise1785
tube dress1948
shift1957
shift dress1966
1948 Vogue Oct. 47 (caption) Back-dipping cape—in stiffened black wool lined brown mouton, over tube dress.
1977 Vogue Dec. 116 (caption) Black chiffon tube dress patterned with gold spots.
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tube skirt n. a tight, close-fitting skirt, often made from a single piece of knitted or elasticized material.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > close-fitting
tunnel skirt1870
sheath1904
hobble1911
slit skirt1913
tube skirt1948
1948 Vogue Oct. 45 (caption) The tube skirt—razor-sharp silhouette on Marcelle Chaumont's prune suit.
1986 Hair Flair Sept. 57/1 Go for..short tube skirts and cropped tops.
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tube pan n. chiefly North American a round cake tin with a hollow tube or cone in the centre that produces a ring-shaped cake.
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1897 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 23 June 3/2 Bake in moderate oven, in tube pan, about 50 minutes.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 50/2 Rinse a tube pan with cold water and pour batter in.
1994 Food & Wine Oct. 48/3 Gently pour the batter into a 10-inch tube pan with a removable bottom.
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Scottish colloquial. Also in form choob. A stupid or contemptible person; an idiot. Frequently as a disparaging form of address.In quot. 1975 perhaps also punning on sense 2g(a) or 2k.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > idiot, crazy person
Jack foolc1405
drivel1478
idiotc1480
nidiot1533
hare-brain1542
hare-copa1566
nidget1579
lunatic1602
flight-head1605
moonling1631
driveller1682
tomfool1683
niddy-noddy1722
imbecile1781
puggle1783
gype1825
eejit1853
nowmun1854
dinlo1873
loon1885
ratbag1890
doughbakea1895
ding-a-ling1899
feeb1914
dingbat1915
bodoh1922
diddy1933
Nimrod1933
pranny1949
momo1953
head-the-ball1958
flake1968
fuckwit1969
tattie-bogle1969
div1975
tube1975
wazzock1976
gonzo1977
motorhead1979
prannet1979
twonk1981
dough ball1983
numpty1985
divvy1987
1975 J. McGrath Game's a Bogey 7 Ach, take wee Freddie, TV mechanic, a right tube.
1990 World Cup Tickets for Sale in eunet.followup (Usenet newsgroup) 6 June This is not for your benefit, as you are obviously a total tube.
1998 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 May 19 I don't like you, you wee choob.
2018 @sassmajesty 23 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I hate having to speak to automated voices, feel like a right tube.
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tubev.
1. transitive. To furnish or fit with a tube or tubes; to insert a tube in.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > form cylinder [verb (transitive)] > form into tube > furnish with tube
tube1828
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tube v., to furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 27/1 This..shaft..should be properly tubed with cast or sheet iron.
1867 Biennial Retrospect (New Sydenham Soc.) 1865–6, 247 The ease with which ‘tubing’ the larynx can be accomplished.
1886 H. S. Brown Autobiogr. (1887) x. 57 I was engaged..in tubing boilers.
2. To pass through or enclose in a tube; cf. tube yarn n. at tube n. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > other specific processes
lay1486
throw?c1625
register1793
re-lay1804
warp1815
to lay upc1860
tube1863
wimble1874
strand1886
fluff1892
1863–98 S. B. Luce Seamanship App. A. 461 A recent improvement in the spinner tubes the yarn, rendering it smoother and..leaving little to be desired in the manufacture of rope.
3. intransitive. To travel by tube railway; also to tube it. colloquial.
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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > by underground railway
subway1897
tube1902
1902 Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 5/1 Yet my cherished hope was this—That under our Metropolis From end to end I'd tube it.
1907 Daily Chron. 1 June 5/5 Shoppers can ‘tube’ to the West-end.
4. transitive and intransitive. To fail, to perform poorly (in). U.S. slang.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail in [verb (transitive)]
slip1855
to fall down1873
to fink out on1966
tube1966
1966 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 1 i. 5 Tube, to fail; to do a poor job. College students, both sexes. Midwest. He tubed every test last week.
1979 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Sept. 10/3 In time, surfers used the verb ‘to tube’ to mean ‘to do poorly’.
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b. colloquial. To fit (a race-horse) with a tube to assist breathing, usually after a laryngotomy. Cf. tubed adj. 2 and hobday v.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment > to horse
discord1566
rake1566
stop1577
fire1607
unsole1805
mallein1915
hobday1938
tube1969
1867 [see sense 1].
1969 E. H. Edwards Horseman's Guide 19 A horse that has been ‘tubed’, or Hobdayed (an operation performed on the larynx for roaring, which is an affection of that organ), is probably a good one.
1986 Times 7 May 29/8 City Boy has been dogged by wind problems..and..was tubed eight days ago.
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