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 |
Flue (n.) An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc. |
Flue (n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air. |
Flue (n.) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another. |
Flue (n.) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler |
Flue (n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc. |
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 |
Small (superl.) Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind |
Small (superl.) Being of slight consequence |
Small (superl.) Envincing little worth or ability |
Small (superl.) Not prolonged in duration |
Small (superl.) Weak |
Small (adv.) In or to small extent, quantity, or degree |
Small (adv.) Not loudly |
Small (n.) The small or slender part of a thing |
Small (n.) Smallclothes. |
Small (n.) Same as Little go. See under Little, a. |
Small (v. t.) To make little or less. |
Smoke (n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like. |
Smoke (n.) That which resembles smoke |
Smoke (n.) Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. |
Smoke (n.) The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco |
Smoke (n.) To emit smoke |
Smoke (n.) Hence, to burn |
Smoke (n.) To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. |
Smoke (n.) To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc. |
Smoke (n.) To suffer severely |
Smoke (v. t.) To apply smoke to |
Smoke (v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke |
Smoke (v. t.) To smell out |
Smoke (v. t.) To ridicule to the face |
Smoke (v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco |
Smoke (v. t.) To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out |
Smoke-dry (v. t.) To dry by or in smoke. |
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 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. |
fastball heater smoke hummer bullet | (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity, he swung late on the fastball, he showed batters nothing but smoke |
smoke smoking | the act of smoking tobacco or other substances, he went outside for a smoke, smoking stinks |
smoke screen smokescreen | an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure, requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures |
neural tube | a tube of ectodermal tissue in the embryo from which the brain and spinal cord develop |
small civet Viverricula indica Viverricula malaccensis | a common civet of southeast Asia |
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 |
small white Pieris rapae | small widely distributed form |
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 |
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 |
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 |
fire alarm smoke alarm | an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke |
firearm piece small-arm | a portable gun, he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster |
flue | a conduit to carry off smoke |
flue pipe flue labial pipe | organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip |
flue stop | an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe |
fluke flue | flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor |
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 |
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 |
pot grass green goddess dope weed gage sess sens smoke skunk locoweed Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
proportional counter tube proportional counter | counter tube whose output pulse is proportional to number of ions produced |
roll of tobacco smoke | tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder |
small boat | a boat that is small |
small computer system interface SCSI | interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers |
small ship | a ship that is small |
small stores | personal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay |
small stuff | any light rope used on shipboard |
smoke bomb smoke grenade | a bomb that gives off thick smoke when it explodes, used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position |
smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |