Crookes tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects |
Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it |
Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube |
Rack (n.) Same as Arrack. |
Rack (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
Rack (n.) A wreck |
Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. |
Rack (v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. |
Rack (v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body |
Rack (n.) A fast amble. |
Rack (v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. |
Rack (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. |
Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated |
Rack (a.) An instrument for bending a bow. |
Rack (a.) A grate on which bacon is laid. |
Rack (a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
Rack (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display |
Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes |
Rack (a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. |
Rack (a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. |
Rack (a.) A distaff. |
Rack (a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. |
Rack (a.) That which is extorted |
Rack (v. t.) To extend by the application of force |
Rack (v. t.) To torment |
Rack (v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense |
Rack (v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. |
Rack (v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
Rack-rent (n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it |
Rack-rent (v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. |
Rack-renter (n.) One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. |
Rack-renter (n.) One who exacts rack-rent. |
Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. |
Test (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel |
Test (n.) Means of trial |
Test (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness |
Test (n.) Discriminative characteristic |
Test (n.) Judgment |
Test (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate |
Test (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel |
Test (v. t.) To put to the proof |
Test (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent |
Test (n.) A witness. |
Test (v. i.) To make a testament, or will. |
Test (n.) Alt. of Testa |
Tube (n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes |
Tube (n.) A telescope. |
Tube (n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. |
Tube (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. |
Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. |
rack single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
rack | a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body |
means test | an inquiry into the financial position of someone applying for financial aid |
test trial run | the act of testing something, in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately, he called each flip of the coin a new trial |
clinical trial clinical test | a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects, in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use |
preclinical trial preclinical test preclinical phase | a laboratory test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on animal subjects, conducted to gather evidence justifying a clinical trial |
test trial | the act of undergoing testing, he survived the great test of battle, candidates must compete in a trial of skill |
screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
MOT MOT test Ministry of Transportation test | a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes |
test mental test mental testing psychometric test | any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc, the test was standardized on a large sample of students |
intelligence test IQ test | a psychometric test of intelligence, they used to think that intelligence is what an intelligence test tests |
Stanford-Binet test | revision of the Binet-Simon Scale |
personality test | any test that is intended to assess personality |
projective test projective device projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
Rorschach Rorschach test inkblot test | a projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots, subjects state what they see in the inkblot |
Thematic Apperception Test TAT | a projective technique using black-and-white pictures, subjects tell a story about each picture |
sub-test | one of a battery of related tests |
test case test suit | a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent |
neural tube | a tube of ectodermal tissue in the embryo from which the brain and spinal cord develop |
test | a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins |
harpy harpy bat tube-nosed bat tube-nosed fruit bat | any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes |
tube foot | tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration |
acorn tube | a small vacuum tube, used at high frequencies |
bicycle rack | a rack for parking bicycles |
blowgun blowpipe blowtube blow tube | a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing |
blowtube blow tube blowpipe | a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat |
bomb rack | a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs |
boron counter tube | a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons |
breech rear of barrel rear of tube | opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded |
capillary capillary tube capillary tubing | a tube of small internal diameter, holds liquid by capillary action |
cathodeay tube CRT | a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen |
coatrack coat rack hatrack | a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
color tube colour tube color television tube colour television tube color TV tube colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
counter tube | a measuring instrument for counting individual ionizing events |
Crookes tube | the original gas-discharge cathodeay tube |
diode rectifying tube rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
dish rack | a rack for holding dishes as dishwater drains off of them |
dress rack | a rack used primarily to display dresses for sale in a store |
driven well tube well | a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water |
endotracheal tube | a catheter that is inserted into the trachea through the mouth or nose in order to maintain an open air passage or to deliver oxygen or to permit the suctioning of mucus or to prevent aspiration of the stomach contents |
gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
Geiger tube Geiger-Muller tube | an ionization chamber contained in a tube in a Geiger counter |
glow tube | a gas-discharge tube consisting of a cold cathode and a diode in a tube filled with gas, the color of the glow depends on the particular gas |
inner tube | an inflatable rubber tube that fits inside the casing of a pneumatic tire |
ionization chamber ionization tube | a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation |
kinescope picture tube television tube | a cathodeay tube in a television receiver, translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen |
Kundt's tube | a measuring instrument used to measure the speed of sound |
luggage rack roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car |
magazine rack | a rack for displaying magazines |