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Tube

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

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Narrower term 26

Barrel 76% connected

A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

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Blowgun 76% connected

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is…

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Blowpipe 76% connected

A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.

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Blowtube 76% connected

A blowgun.

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Cannula 76% connected

A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a tr…

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Capillary 76% connected

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and p…

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Catheter 76% connected

The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the u…

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Cochlea 76% connected

An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

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Coil 76% connected

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

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Column 76% connected

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and…

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Drain 76% connected

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

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Hose 76% connected

of Hose

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Mouthpiece 76% connected

The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.

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Pipage 76% connected

Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.

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Pipe 76% connected

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pi…

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Piping 76% connected

of Pipe

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Salpinx 76% connected

The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube.

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Siphon 76% connected

A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower lev…

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Stem 76% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stent 76% connected

of Stent

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Straw 76% connected

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

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Syphon 76% connected

See Syphon.

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Tubule 76% connected

A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

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Vas 76% connected

A vessel; a duct.

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Vessel 76% connected

A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bo…

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Water tube 76% connected

One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to t…

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Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Conduit 76% connected

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Cylinder 76% connected

A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal s…

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Enfold 76% connected

To infold. See Infold.

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Envelop 76% connected

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a…

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Enwrap 76% connected

To envelop. See Inwrap.

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Railroad 76% connected

Alt. of Railway

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Railway 76% connected

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and s…

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Wrap 76% connected

To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

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Derivationally related 4

Tubal 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

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Tubal 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

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Tubing 74% connected

of Tube

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Tubing 74% connected

of Tube

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Component part 5

Anode 70% connected

The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; --…

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Cathode 70% connected

The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current p…

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Electrode 70% connected

The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from…

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Grid 70% connected

A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

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Plate 70% connected

A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel…

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Containing whole 1

Circuit 70% connected

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

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Synonym 4

Pipe 92% connected

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pi…

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Subway 92% connected

An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

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Tubing 92% connected

of Tube

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Underground 92% connected

The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.

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