Claude Lorraine glass
() A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape. |
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 |
Egg-glass
(n.) A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs |
Flint glass
() A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power |
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 |
Glass
(v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament. |
Glass
(v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. |
Glass
(v. t.) Anything made of glass. |
Glass
(v. t.) A looking-glass |
Glass
(v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time |
Glass
(v. t.) A drinking vessel |
Glass
(v. t.) An optical glass |
Glass
(v. t.) A weatherglass |
Glass
(v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror |
Glass
(v. t.) To case in glass. |
Glass
(v. t.) To cover or furnish with glass |
Glass
(v. t.) To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher. |
Glass-crab
(n.) The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma. |
Glass-faced
(a.) Mirror-faced |
Glass-gazing
(a.) Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror |
Glass maker
(n.) Alt. of Glassmaker |
Glass-rope
(n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together. |
Glass-snail
(n.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina. |
Glass-snake
(n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States |
Glass-sponge
(n.) A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera |
Lady's looking-glass
() See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus. |
Looking-glass
(n.) A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. |
Millefiore glass
() Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass |
Muscovy glass
() Mica |
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. |
Water glass
() See Soluble glass, under Glass. |
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. |
| neural tube | a tube of ectodermal tissue in the embryo from which the brain and spinal cord develop |
glass lizard
glass snake
joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
| glass sponge | a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae |
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 |
alcohol thermometer
alcohol-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of a glass capillary tube marked with degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit and containing alcohol which rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature |
| beer glass | a relatively large glass for serving beer |
bell jar
bell glass | a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases |
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 |
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 |
| cheval glass | a full length mirror mounted in a frame in which it can be tilted |
clinical thermometer
mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer | a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body, graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperature |
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 |
cover glass
cover slip | a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide |
| Crookes tube | the original gas-discharge cathodeay tube |
crystal
watch crystal
watch glass | a protective cover that protects the face of a watch |
| cut glass | glass decorated by cutting or grinding facets |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
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 |
field glass
glass spyglass | a small refracting telescope |
flute flute glass
champagne flute | a tall narrow wineglass |
| 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 |
glass
drinking glass | a container for holding liquids while drinking |
| glass | glassware collectively, She collected old glass |
| glass cutter | a tool for cutting glass |
| glass eye | prosthesis consisting of an artificial eye made of glass |
| 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 |
hand glass
simple microscope
magnifying glass | light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image, the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in |
| hand glass hand mirror | a mirror intended to be held in the hand |
| highball glass | a tall glass for serving highballs |
| 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 |
| jeweler's glass | an optical instrument used by jewelers, has one or more lenses and is used to view features not readily seen |
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 |
| liqueur glass | a small glass for serving a small amount of liqueur (typically after dinner) |
looking glass
glass | a mirror, usually a ladies' dressing mirror |
mercury thermometer
mercury-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit, mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube |
c methamphetamine
methamphetamine hydrochloride
Methedrine
meth
deoxyephedrine
chalk chicken feed
crank glass ice shabu
trash | an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride, used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant |
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' |
| 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 |