Air pipe () A pipe for the passage of air |
Blast pipe () The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast. |
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 |
External (a.) Outward |
External (a.) Outside of or separate from ourselves |
External (a.) Outwardly perceptible |
External (a.) Not intrinsic nor essential |
External (a.) Foreign |
External (a.) Away from the mesial plane of the body |
External (n.) Something external or without |
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 |
Pipe (n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal |
Pipe (n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. |
Pipe (n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. |
Pipe (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing |
Pipe (n.) The key or sound of the voice. |
Pipe (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. |
Pipe (n.) The bagpipe |
Pipe (n.) An elongated body or vein of ore. |
Pipe (n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king |
Pipe (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties |
Pipe (n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons |
Pipe (v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. |
Pipe (v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. |
Pipe (v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe |
Pipe (v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying |
Pipe (v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc. |
Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. |
Pipe (v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes |
Pipe clay () A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments. |
Pipe layer () One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc. |
Pipe layer () A politician who works in secret |
Pipe laying () The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc. |
Pipe laying () The act or method of making combinations for personal advantage secretly or slyly |
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 |
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. |
Tube (n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. |
Tube (n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. |
Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. |
Tube (v. t.) To furnish with a tube |
Tube-nosed (a.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak |
Tube-nosed (a.) Belonging to the Tubinares. |
Tube-shell (n.) Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell. |
Twire-pipe (n.) A vagabond musician. |
Water pipe () A pipe for conveying water. |
Water tube () One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst. |
breathing external respiration respiration ventilation | the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation, the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation |
neural tube | a tube of ectodermal tissue in the embryo from which the brain and spinal cord develop |
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 |
external gill | occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians |
acorn tube | a small vacuum tube, used at high frequencies |
auxiliary storage external storage secondary storage | a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer |
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 |
boron counter tube | a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons |
bowl pipe bowl | a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco |
breech rear of barrel rear of tube | opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded |
briar briar pipe | a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath |
calabash calabash pipe | a pipe for smoking, has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd |
calumet peace pipe pipe of peace | a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians, smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) |
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 |
chanter melody pipe | reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played |
clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
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 |
discharge pipe | a pipe through which fluids can be discharged |
drain drainpipe waste pipe | a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
drilling pipe | a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit, rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud |
driven well tube well | a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water |
drone drone pipe bourdon | a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone |
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 |
exhaust pipe | a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler |
external drive | a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable |
fipple flute fipple pipe recorder vertical flute | a tubular wind instrument with finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece |
flageolet treble recorder shepherd's pipe | a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes |
flue pipe flue labial pipe | organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip |
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 |
b hookah narghile nargileh sheesha shisha chicha calean kalian water pipe hubble-bubble hubbly-bubbly | an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water, a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola |
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 |
metro tube underground subway system subway | an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city), in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground' |
musette shepherd's pipe | a small bagpipe formerly popular in France |
musette pipe | a small simple oboe |
nasotracheal tube | a tube inserted into the trachea through the nose and pharynx, used to deliver oxygen |
neon lamp neon induction lamp neon tube | a lamp consisting of a small gas-discharge tube containing neon at low pressure, luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube |
organ pipe organ | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard |
organ pipe pipe pipework | the flues and stops on a pipe organ |
panpipe pandean pipe syrinx | a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together |