Phrase Hound found 117 phrases and 32 compound words that contain tubes. The most common are listed below. Open tubes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 117
- down the tubesSynonym of down the toilet: wasted; irretrievable.
- go down the tubesSynonym of go down the toilet: to fail; to degenerate rapidly.
- chest tubesplural of chest tube: Also known as chest drain, thoracic catheter, tube thoracostomy, or intercostal drain. A tube inserted into the chest with the purpose of allowing the removal of air or fluid from the pleural cavity.
- discharge tubesplural of discharge tube: Any device in which a flow of electrons (or ions) through a gas acts as a source of light.
- electron tubesplural of electron tube: Any of several electronic devices that control electron current through vacuum, gas or vapor between electrodes within a sealed container, usually of glass or metal and often designed to be easily installed in and …
- feeding tubesplural of feeding tube: a device used to feed people who cannot eat or swallow, normally in the form of a tube passed through the nose or straight into the abdomen.
- hot tubesplural of hot tube: A device in some early internal combustion engines that ignited the fuel/air mixture in a tube heated by a flame
- speaking tubesplural of speaking tube: A tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance.
- test tubesplural of test tube: A glass tube, rounded at one end and open at the other, used for small-scale laboratory tests.
- U-tubesplural of U-tube: A tube in the shape of a capital U, in certain applications having a semipermeable membrane in the middle.
- vacuum tubesplural of vacuum tube: A type of electron tube that controls electron current through vacuum between electrodes within a sealed container, usually of glass or metal and often designed to be easily installed in and removed from the …
- boiling tubesplural of boiling tube: A small cylindrical vessel used to heat substances in the flame of a Bunsen burner.
- lava tubesplural of lava tube: A natural conduit formed by flowing lava that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.
- thistle tubesplural of thistle tube: An item of glass laboratory equipment like a funnel consisting of a long, fine tube and a bulbous reservoir at the top. Used for introducing liquids, with care, into a solution.
- pollen tubesplural of pollen tube: The tube that develops from the wall of a pollen grain and, in seed plants, provides a passage through which the male nuclei reach the embryo sac to effect fertilization.
- series of tubesThe Internet.
- X-ray tubesplural of X-ray tube: A device that produces X-rays by directing energetic electrons into a metal target.
- auditory tubesplural of auditory tube: The Eustachian tube.
- germ tubesplural of germ tube: A hypha produced by some fungi during germination
- uterine tubesplural of uterine tube: Either of the two ducts through which ova pass from the ovaries to the uterus.
- torpedo tubesplural of torpedo tube: A metal tube mounted in a submarine or surface warship into which a torpedo may be loaded and launched through the hull or from the deck; a torpedo launcher.
- banded tubesplural of banded tube: A kind of phytoclast consisting of micrometre-scale tubes with a banded internal ornamentation, known from terrestrial/freshwater settings from the early Silurian onwards.
- bronchial tubesplural of bronchial tube: A bronchus
- groan tubesplural of groan tube: A tubular toy containing a vibrating noise-maker so that it makes a distinct groaning sound when turned on one end.
- cathode-ray tubesplural of cathode-ray tube
Compound words 32
- IntertubesThe Internet.
- nanotubesplural of nanotube: Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.
- myotubesplural of myotube: A structure of elongated multinucleate cells that contains some peripherally located myofibrils
- skytubesSynonym of tube maze: An interactive play structure for children designed for crawling, climbing, and exploring, usually featuring interconnected, transparent, or fabric tunnels.
- blowtubesplural of blowtube: A blowpipe (used in metallurgy, etc.).
- buckytubesplural of buckytube: a carbon nanotube
- cryotubesplural of cryotube: A plastic sample-tube that is able to stand very low temperatures
- downtubesplural of downtube: A tube in the bicycle frame that connects the bottom bracket shell to the head tube.
- drawtubesplural of drawtube: The tube that is drawn out in order to expand a telescope.
- eartubesplural of eartube: A tube inserted during tympanostomy or a similar operation