tube
/tuːb/ verb C2- To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. · She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
- To ride an inner tube. · They tubed down the Colorado River.
- To intubate. · The patient was tubed.
He/she/it tubes · Past tubed · Past participle tubed · -ing form tubing
Verb forms
- Base form
- tube
- He/she/it
- tubes
- Past
- tubed
- Past participle
- tubed
- -ing form
- tubing
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I’ve found it,” he shouted to my companion, running towards us with a test-tube in his hand.
A large table in the centre was littered with all sorts of debris, while the tall brass tube of a powerful microscope bristled up amongst them.
He dipped into this bottle or that, drawing out a few drops of each with his glass pipette, and finally brought a test-tube containing a solution over to the table.
If it turns red, it means a man’s life.” He dipped it into the test-tube and it flushed at once into a dull, dirty crimson.
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