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 |
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. |
Graft
(n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. |
Graft
(n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. |
Graft
(n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. |
Graft
(n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree |
Graft
(n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. |
Graft
(n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union. |
Graft
(n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns. |
Graft
(v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another |
Guess rope
() A guess warp. |
Guest rope
() The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. |
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 |
Rope
(n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage. |
Rope
(n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc. |
Rope
(n.) The small intestines |
Rope
(v. i.) To be formed into rope |
Rope
(v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord |
Rope
(v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope. |
Rope
(v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something |
Rope
(v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse). |
Rope
(v. t.) To draw, as with a rope |
Rope
(v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing. |
Rope's-end
(v. t.) To punish with a rope's end. |
Rope-yarn
(n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made. |
Top-rope
(n.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes. |
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. |
graft
grafting | the act of grafting something onto something else |
| rope-a-dope | a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches |
| jump rope | a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope |
coronary bypass
coronary bypass surgery
coronary artery bypass graft
CABG | open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart |
keratoplasty
corneal graft
corneal transplant | a surgical procedure in which part or all of a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by healthy corneal tissue from a donor |
bribery
graft | the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage |
| 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 |
| acorn tube | a small vacuum tube, used at high frequencies |
anchor chain
anchor rope | the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel |
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 |
chunnel
Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
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 |
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 |
| guide rope | a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
hangman's rope
hangman's halter
halter hemp
hempen necktie | a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging |
| 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 |
jump rope
skip rope
skipping rope | a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it |
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' |
| 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 |
pipe wrench
tube wrench | adjustable wrench for gripping and turning a pipe, has two serrated jaws that are adjusted to grip the pipe |
Pitot-static tube
Pitot head
Pitot tube | measuring instrument consisting of a combined Pitot tube and static tube that measures total and static pressure, used in aircraft to measure airspeed |
Pitot tube
Pitot | measuring instrument consisting of a right-angled tube with an open end that is directed in opposition to the flow of a fluid and used to measure the velocity of fluid flow |
proportional counter tube
proportional counter | counter tube whose output pulse is proportional to number of ions produced |
R-
Mexican valium
rophy
rope roofy
roach forget me drug
circle | street names for flunitrazepan |
| railroad tunnel | a tunnel through which the railroad track runs |
| ridge rope | either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship |
| rope | a strong line |
| rope bridge | a bridge consisting of ropes |
| rope ladder | a ladder with side pieces of rope |
| rope tow | a ski tow offering only a moving rope to hold onto |
ropewalk
rope yard | workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made |