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 |
Flap (v.) Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved |
Flap (v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter. |
Flap (v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it |
Flap (v.) A disease in the lips of horses. |
Flap (n.) To beat with a flap |
Flap (n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike |
Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose |
Flap (v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing. |
Flap-eared (a.) Having broad, loose, dependent ears. |
Flap-mouthed (a.) Having broad, hangling lips. |
Flip-flap (n.) The repeated stroke of something long and loose. |
Flip-flap (adv.) With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose. |
Gauntlet (n.) See Gantlet. |
Gauntlet (n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds. |
Gauntlet (n.) A long glove, covering the wrist. |
Gauntlet (n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. |
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 |
Pocket (n.) A bag or pouch |
Pocket (n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. |
Pocket (n.) A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. |
Pocket (n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. |
Pocket (n.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral |
Pocket (n.) A hole containing water. |
Pocket (n.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace. |
Pocket (n.) Same as Pouch. |
Pocket (v. t.) To put, or conceal, in the pocket |
Pocket (v. t.) To take clandestinely or fraudulently. |
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. |
Tunnel (n. .) A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels |
Tunnel (n. .) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke |
Tunnel (n. .) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like. |
Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach |
Tunnel (v. t.) To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel |
Tunnel (v. t.) To catch in a tunnel net. |
Tunnel (v. t.) To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under |
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. |
pocket veto | indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it |
pool pocket billiards | any of various games played on a pool table having pockets |
gauntlet gantlet | a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim |
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 |
pocket rat | any of various rodents with cheek pouches |
pocket mouse | any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail |
silky pocket mouse Perognathus flavus | small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico |
plains pocket mouse Perognathus flavescens | small rodent of open areas of United States plains states |
hispid pocket mouse Perognathus hispidus | large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States |
Mexican pocket mouse Liomys irroratus | large pocket mouse of Mexico |
kangaroo mouse dwarf pocket rat | small silky-haired pouched rodent, similar to but smaller than kangaroo rats |
gopher pocket gopher pouched rat | burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches, of Central America and southwestern North America |
plains pocket gopher Geomys bursarius | gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America |
southeastern pocket gopher Geomys pinetis | gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida |
valley pocket gopher Thomomys bottae | of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States |
northern pocket gopher Thomomys talpoides | greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States |
acorn tube | a small vacuum tube, used at high frequencies |
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 |
breast pocket | a pocket inside of a man's coat |
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 |
chunnel Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
cigar lighter cigarette lighter pocket lighter | a lighter for cigars or cigarettes |
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 |
corner pocket | a pocket at the corner of a billiard table |
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 |
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 |
flap | any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge, hangs loose or projects freely, he wrote on the flap of the envelope |
flap flaps | a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing, used to increase lift or drag |
fob watch pocket | a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch |
gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
gauntlet gantlet | a glove with long sleeve |
gauntlet gantlet metal glove | a glove of armored leather, protects the hand |
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 |
hand calculator pocket calculator | a calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket |
hipflask pocket flask | a flask that holds spirits |
hip pocket | a pocket in rear of trousers |
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 |