Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a name given to certain horny passages for air in the abdomen of some aquatic insects.
- noun Nautical, a small iron tube filled with water and hung in a coal-box in the coal-bunkers of a steamship as a means of ascertaining the temperature of the coal.
- noun The tube of an atmospheric railway, as the pneumatic tube (which see, under
tube ).
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Examples
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For half an hour longer the watchers on the trawler studied the bubbles wandering to the surface, and the vagaries of the air-tube and the ropes.
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Use air-tube headsets or speaker mode when talking.
The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009
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The best kind of headset to use is a combination shielded wire and air-tube headset.
Half the World Has a Cell Phone - Why that is a brain tumor epidemic waiting to happen 2008
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This is the most perilous part of the diver's work, as there are so many projections upon which his air-tube may catch; but he finds it almost as easy to ply his hammer and drill in making repairs under water as on shore.
Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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"Look at that crooked thing there," said one of the visitors, pointing to the air-tube leading to the stoker.
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
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Remove one finger from the end of the tube, and pinch the fork of the air-tube that is on that side.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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Now if the air-pressure is constant through the forked air-tube, and the cock E. is open, if the top of the lever is moved to the right, the pellet will be pushed to the left in the large tube.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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The word arteria, which had already been applied to the trachea, as an air-containing tube, was then attached to the arteries; on account of the rough and uneven character of its walls the trachea was then called the arteria tracheia, or the rough air-tube. 63 We call it simply the trachea, but in French the word trachée-artère is still used.
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It was the air-tube, disseminating the breath through the lungs.
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The first indication of the coming portent is to be found in the annus mirabilis of 1848, when an "air-tube dress extender" is shown in a picture.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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