On the other hand, she drinks out of a tube made of a swan's bone (above, pp.
P is also in direct connection with the efflux tube E, E and R serving to convey the dye or bleach solutions to and from the reservoir C.
A contains a central division P, also constructed of netting, into which is inserted the extremity of the tube R, after being twice bent at a right angle.
An aperture is made in the tube A, within which is seen a mark engraved on the cylinder, and on the edge of which are two marks, a longer and a shorter, engraved upon the tube.
A tube is placed below the stage of the instrument containing a lens A B (Fig.
I wanted you ter tell me ef that thar stuff in the glass tube is worth anything or nothing," was the reply.
Ventilation was provided in such a case by a hollow telescopic tube which reached twenty-five feet into the air.
Jack explained, and then, suddenly, he thought of thetube of queer-looking black sand.
When everything was declared ready, Jack opened the charging-tube of the gas reservoir and poured in some of the volatile powder that made the lifting vapor.
Regale chilled fingers, or from tube as black As winter chimney, or well polished jet Exhale mundungus, ill-perfuming scent.
Action of Two-electrode Vacuum Tube (A) and (B) Fig.
The way in which the tube acts as a generator of oscillations will be told in Chapter XVIII.
A current of audio frequency that is amplified by an amplifier tube or other means.
As the action of a two electrode tube as a detector [Footnote: The three electrode vacuum tube has entirely taken the place of the two electrode type.
An early trade name given to the vacuum tube detector.
A vacuum tube or other device that amplifies the signals after passing through the detector.
He picked up a glass tube not much thicker than a thermometer, in which, almost touching, were two tiny silver plugs, and between them an infinitesimal pinch of metallic dust.
The spores of this species are white, which, with the more minute tube openings, form a sufficient discrimination from subtomentosus.
Tube surface:= Yellow or yellowish green, becoming bluish when bruised; opening of tubes large and angled.
Only the middle tube is used for the passage of the honey, the side tubes being used, as some think, for breathing purposes, while others hold that they serve to help in pumping up the fluids into the mouth.
This plan of keeping open the passage in a tube likely to be blocked by sudden bending, has been imitated by mankind, in making rubber gas tubing, for example.
This poison is made in what is called the poison gland, the long, slender, coiled tube (P g) in the picture.
By this interlocking contrivance the tube can easily be opened and cleaned, should the passage become blocked by solid particles.
As a plain rubber tube is easily bent, the gas would be in constant danger of being cut off.
L), which communicates with the claw by means of a long tube or duct.
So closely do these two halves fit when closed that this middle tubeis perfectly air-tight.
Proceed to focus by sliding the outer tube to and fro until the colors are quite clear and distinct, and at same time screw down the slit until the Fraunhofer lines appear.
A very strong tube is fixed to the cock, Ro', and to the ajutage, A'.
Through the double bored cork goes a glass tube to a Woulffe's bottle containing warm water.
A thermometer is passed into the interior of the tube by the second hole.
By fixing the smaller tube in the front of camera we can focus by sliding the outer tube thereon; if we fix the larger tube in the front, we should have to focus inside the camera, obviously most inconvenient in practice.
The interior surface of thetube exhibited no signs of pitting or corrosion.
He left the pneumatic tube and climbed on the jitney that wound its way through the corridors of the pathology sector and into the quiet, austere quarters of the resident pathologists.
Presently the capsule was shifted automatically into the pressure tube that would carry him thirty miles north to his destination.
He thrust the message into his pocket, and his step quickened as he heard the whistle of the pressure-tube trains up ahead.
I pledge you my word----" The voice stopped and the whistle was clapped into the tube again.
The speakingtube was going again, for the whistle trilled shrilly.
Berrington pulled the whistle out of the tube and listened.
And you may whistle up the tube all day, so far as I am concerned.
He wandered impatiently about the room, listening at the tube from time to time, in the hope of getting something fresh.
He had barely come to this conclusion when the whistle in the tube sounded very faintly.
At the after end of the flat, a marine sentry paced day and night, his post extending from the stern torpedo-tube to the gun-room door on the port side, and to the armoured door on the starboard side.
A wave of hot air that reminded the lad of the atmosphere of a Tube station wafted past him.
Instantly an arrangement of telescopic lenses came into play within the tube of the periscope, with the result that a small portion of the view was greatly magnified upon the object card.
By an ingenious arrangement, the lenses were constructed to compensate for any deviation of the tube of the periscope from the vertical.
The same voice-tube that Ross was "tapping" ran vertically past Haye's bunk, which was immediately underneath the one Trefusis had appropriated from the time when he had been laid upon it under the influence of the injection.
The lads noticed that it had neither air-tube nor telephone wire.
The circuit of the battery was tested and found to be in perfect order, and the wires were then connected with the detonator of the mine, after the tube containing the fulminate of mercury had been removed.
The cistern is composed of a glass cylinder, which is secured in a metallic tube or frame.
When used on shore, this contraction of the tube causes the marine barometer to be sometimes a little behind an ordinary land barometer, the tube of which is not contracted.
This tube is enveloped by another fixed to the top of the boiler but not opening into it, and so that the two tubes are about an inch apart.
The tube does not enter the lower compartment, which is completely full of mercury when the instrument is arranged for observation.
The rain collected will rise as high in this tube as in the cylinder, and its amount can therefore be read off without any trouble.
The tube is fixed, but its cistern is sustained by the mere pressure of the atmosphere.
The tube is fixed to a boxwood cistern, which is plugged with very porous cane at the top, to allow of the ready influence of a variation in atmospheric pressure upon the mercury.
The bore of the tube is wide, about an inch across.
The mercury in the tube then partly falls out, but a column, AB, about 30 inches in height, remains supported.
In this condition, the upper compartment is completely filled with mercury, and consequently that in the tube cannot move about, so as to admit air or endanger the tube.
But he was keen to make Diana go back, and if he went out to get another tube he would lose all the daylight.
He had much better have gone out to buy a new tube of this useful colour, as in five minutes he was one mass of filth.
Then he and Mr. Dobbles went their ways, leaving Mr. Aiken searching for his tube of Transparent Oxide of Chromium.
And he knew this tube of colour was in his old japanned tin box, with the folding palette with the hinge broke.
Such often, like thetube they so admire, Important triflers!
At once a green-painted tube became visible, and then a slanting mirror, the size of a postcard.
I had taken up a little leathertube with a lens at one end.
About three in the morning Danjuro spoke through the tube and insisted on relieving me.
The boy applies the fire to the steam-tight vessel p and when steam is formed it passes up through the tube o and enters the globe which turns easily on the pivots.
Wherever he wanted a light he let the gas escape at the end of the tube (Fig.
It is necessary to close the opening in the top of the magazine, or the beans will blow out of it instead of from the end of tube D.
The open end of the tubeshould be at D and the sealed end at E.
This is easily done by filing through the tin on one side with a small file, and then bending the tube back and forth until it breaks.
Then secure a good-sized cork and cut a hole through the side large enough for the tube to run through (see A in Fig.
Place the end of the four-inch tube in the hole bored in the spool at A, gluing a strip of paper around it to make it fit tightly (see B in Fig.
To fire the Cannon=, slip a match into the open end of the tube with the head toward E, and hold a lighted match at the closed end.
To operate it, hold the spool in one hand, and, after dropping a number of beans or peas into the magazine, place the palm of the other hand over the top of the paper funnel, and blow until the tube is emptied.
A piece of paper smeared with glue should be wrapped around the other end of thistube in the form of a funnel, as shown in Fig.
More we do not get, owing to the resistance opposed by the narrowness of the tube to a greater flow.
At the side of the fireplace a block of wood should be fixed in the wall before any plaster is put on, and the end of the tube should terminate in the centre of the same.
If this tube be afterwards well covered with melted paraffin wax, the plan answers admirably, but of course the bobbins become fixtures on the magnets.
Let us suppose we have a constant "head" of water at our disposal, and allow it to flow through a tube presenting 1 inch aperture.
It consists in an ordinary thermometer with a wire projecting into the tube to a certain point, say 100 degrees.
Bend the tube slightly forward at the end, and insert a short peg of wood to prevent dirt getting into the tube.
Some amateurs use the turned ends of cotton reels or spools, and glue them on to a tube of paper formed on the cores themselves.
A large nail or screw may be put in to mark the place, so that the end of the tube may be found easily when the plastering is finished.
Where many wires are to be brought down to one position, a large tube may be buried in the wall, or a wood casing fixed flush with the plaster, with a removable front.
The bell may be screwed to a tube through which passes the conducting wire, which makes contact with an insulated metallic piece in the centre of the top of the bell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tube" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
