tubularadj.n.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iii. i. iv. 122 The Pins being also conceived to be Tubular.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvi. 398 These tubular vessels may be supported with facility..upon the table across two or three pieces of glass.

1850 E. Clark (title) The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges.

1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 243 The idea of tubular bricks is not new, for they were used by the Romans.

1884 J. Harrington Provisional Spec. 14,270 (Patent Office) (1885) 1 Instead of employing the costly gongs or bells hitherto employed, I employ metallic tubes which I suspend vertically by means of catgut, cord or other suitable material... I arrange the hammers so as to strike the same at their upper parts above the point of suspension thereof.]

1919 A. T. Bassett S. Barnabas', Oxf. iii. 25 The original bell of S. Barnabas'..did service until 1890, when a set of tubular bells was hung in the tower, and a chiming machine added.

1922 D. T. Day Handbk. Petroleum Industry I. 300 The term ‘tubular goods’ generally covers all classes of pipe, casing and tubing used in drilling or operating oil or gas wells, and comprises the following distinct types; casing, tubing, drive pipe, line pipe and rotary drill pipe.

1930 Melody Maker Jan. 69/1 Tubular bells are often considered ‘a bit of a bore’ by drummers.

1933 Archit. Rev. 74 78/3 Four double tubular-steel legs shaped like hair-pins.

1946 R. Graves Poems 1938–45 35 Among box-files and tubular steel chairs.

1957 Times 2 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. viii/3 The gate and posts are made of tubular steel.

1962 B.S.I. News May 19/2 Glockenspiel, xylophone, tubular bells, celesta.

1981 Times 3 July 14/7 Marcel Breuer, the Hungarian-born architect..created the first tubular steel furniture..and in 1926 he equipped the new Bauhaus buildings with furniture of this type.

1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 396 Tubulosa, Florets that are all tubular and equal.

1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 457 Flowers..with united tubular anthers.

?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. vii Primrose... Calyx tubular, five-toothed.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §5 248 Tubular..strictly..denotes a gamophyllous perianth with limb inconspicuous..as in Trumpet Honeysuckle.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 175 Those of the coral class, of a ramified and tubular form.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 200 The tongue of the Gnat and some of the flies is short, pointed, and hollow, and through its tubular interior these insects are enabled to draw their nourishment.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 29 Rounded nostrils may have a raised border or rim; when this is prolonged they are called tubular.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 239 (heading) Diarrhœa Tubularis. Tubular Looseness. The digestions consi[s]ting more or less of membrane-like tubes, whitish, viscous, and inodorous.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 48 Tubular diarrhœa.

1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 119 The stethoscope detected..no other respiratory sound, but that of a dry respiration, evidently tubular or bronchial.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 205 The breath-sounds are tubular or cavernous—the term ‘tubular’ is used here as synonymous with bronchial.

1903 Hansell & Sweet Text-bk. Dis. of Eye xviii. 488 When his sight had improved the visual fields were still contracted.., showing the so-called ‘tubular’ field of hysteria.

1927 H. M. Traquair Introd. Clin. Perimetry v. 49 A special form of concentric contraction is the ‘tubular’ field. The depression is severe and involves the whole field with the exception of an area surrounding the fixation point, producing a great and often extreme contraction... Such fields are obviously of functional origin.

1927 H. M. Traquair Introd. Clin. Perimetry xii. 222 Hysteria. The typical field change..is concentric contraction... The field is..tubular in type, a form which is necessarily of subjective origin.

1934 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 17 384/2 (heading) Transient tubular vision in postencephalitic Parkinson's disease.

1956 Blakiston's New Gould Med. Dict. (ed. 2) 1319/2 Tubular v[ision], a hysterical phenomenon in which the constricted visual field defies the laws of physical projection and maintains a uniform small size..: popularly called gun-barrel v[ision]; tunnel v[ision].