tube
Tube denotes:
- a mathematical object, see cylinder (geometry) # Hollow cylinder
- Pipe (technology)
- Colloquially, objects that have this shape (or originally had) are referred to as “tubes”, such as the roasting tube, see oven # household ovens
- Tunnels or parts of them
- Colloquially an extraordinary musical human voice , usually referred to as a rock tube
- a pair of fashion trousers, see Jeans # tube and skinny jeans
- the nickname of Rainer Baumann (soccer player) (* 1930)
Hollow organs elongated in anatomy:
- windpipe
- esophagus
- urethra
- Tube (mycology) , an expression of the hymenophore in the fruiting bodies of large mushrooms
Electronic components that are melted into (mostly thin-walled) glass tubes:
- Fluorescent tube , see fluorescent lamp
- Electron tube
- Picture tube , see cathode ray tube
- Braun tube , see cathode ray tube #History
- Colloquially, pars pro toto, a tube television or monitor, see cathode ray tube screen
See also:
Wiktionary: tube - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with tube
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains tube
- pipe
- Tubes
- Tube amplifier
- Thick tubule-like - Boletales
- Angstromhre : the cylinder (hat) received this joking name in the vernacular, because in the past you had to wear a cylinder for exams and similar events
