tube

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  1. noun A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.
  2. noun An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct: a bronchial tube.
  3. noun A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.
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  • Inside the tube is a small plastic chicken and a brightly colored feather. —  EBSCOhost
  • And on the smooth, gleaming surface of the tube was a scramble of funny-looking figures The college boy stared. —  093 - The Awful Dynasty
  • The tracheotomy tube is then removed, and respiration goes on again through the natural channels CHAPTER VII. —  George Washington, Vol. II
  • The two figures with the tube were already sprinting toward the reactor complex—sprinting much faster than was possible for unaugmented humans: probably genetically enhanced, with an extra boost from some black market cyberartist in Kyoto. —  AnalogSF,June2003
  • Like the tube was the flat surface of a pool and I was in a race. —  Persuader by Lee Child
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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin tubus.

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  1. from French tube =Spanish Portuguese Italian tubo, from Latin tubus, a pipe, tube; cf. tuba, a trumpet.
  2. from tube, n.
 

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