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Tubing

of Tube

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Narrower term 21

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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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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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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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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Conduit 76% connected

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

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Tube 74% connected

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

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Tube 74% connected

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

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Synonym 1

Tube 92% connected

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

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