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as in pipes
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)
watched the liquid move through the tube between the flasks and recorded the movement in his chemistry notebook
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as in TVs
an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound
we plan to relax and spend some time in front of the tube tonight
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Recent Examples of tubes
According to Buder, who also works as an engineer at Vielo, the aircraft-grade carbon tubes were first cleaned and cut to size, then bonded using an epoxy-carbon composite.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
The outlet also revisited Cheney’s justification for the Iraq War, citing his claims about aluminum tubes allegedly linked to nuclear weapons development.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
To protect trees, install tree tubes made of hardware cloth or plastic.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
But just six weeks after giving birth, Moreno decided to have her tubes tied.
—NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
Most of the production line is automated to limit human contact, with the vials being washed and sterilized and then filled with fentanyl using long rubber tubes.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Toothpaste Transfer Tube Ounce-counters love sample-size mini toothpaste tubes (the ones that are even smaller than travel-sized toothpaste).
—Zoe Gates, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
An East Bay institution that’s slung tasty meat tubes for almost a century is no more.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Cathode ray tubes for Sarnoff and RCA to make televisions.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
The outlet also revisited Cheney’s justification for the Iraq War, citing his claims about aluminum tubes allegedly linked to nuclear weapons development.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
To protect trees, install tree tubes made of hardware cloth or plastic.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
But just six weeks after giving birth, Moreno decided to have her tubes tied.
—NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
Most of the production line is automated to limit human contact, with the vials being washed and sterilized and then filled with fentanyl using long rubber tubes.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Toothpaste Transfer Tube Ounce-counters love sample-size mini toothpaste tubes (the ones that are even smaller than travel-sized toothpaste).
—Zoe Gates, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
An East Bay institution that’s slung tasty meat tubes for almost a century is no more.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Cathode ray tubes for Sarnoff and RCA to make televisions.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tubes
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That fingerprint was sufficient enough to qualify for a warrant to search the rest of the Norman home, where tests of the pipes leading out of the washing machine revealed some matter containing Beryl’s DNA.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Remove hoses and cover above-ground pipes.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Middle managers—those crucial conduits between strategy and execution—feel less psychologically safe than both their bosses and their teams.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
22 Oct. 2025
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The analysts concluded that McGovern—who continued to use his secretblackmars handle, Knife—was one of Kinahan’s primary conduits to the world.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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What Bernell's will offer Adair said Bernell's will have four large televisions and a large screen over the stage, which people can watch from anywhere in the bar.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Ever since the days before flatscreens, televisions have shipped with underpowered speakers that muddy every sound from dialogue to sound effects.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
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The Disney transaction aims to shake up the streaming TV business, and also comes as Disney has seen its TV channels, including ABC and ESPN go dark on YouTube TV, the streaming multichannel video provider.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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The company said all regions and channels delivered double-digit gains.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
3 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Tubes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tubes. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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