noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tube of paint
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There was a painting on one of the easels and a table with his brushes and tubes of paint.
a tube/underground train (= one that runs under London )
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The condition of many tube trains is a disgrace.
boob tube
bronchial tube
cathode ray tube
fallopian tube
inner tube
roll sth into a ball/tube
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Roll the dough into small balls.
test tube
tube sock
tube top
vacuum tube
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fallopian
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As a medical procedure it was first used for women who could not become pregnant because of blocked or missing fallopian tubes .
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The journey of the sperm to the Fallopian tube is of necessity longer.
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For the female this means cutting or tying her fallopian tubes .
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As this happens, the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus.
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It was when I was lord of the womb, king of the fallopian tubes .
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She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked.
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Light microscopical studies of smooth muscle of the fallopian tubes showed no histological abnormalities.
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The womb, cervix, fallopian tubes and ovaries are all left in place.
fluorescent
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Fit two fluorescent tubes in tank length, together with two high-polish clip-on aluminium reflectors.
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Some linoleum tile, maybe some plywood, maybe the buzz of the fluorescent tube light.
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So a single fluorescent tube will be adequate, and if you have used floating plants, so much the better.
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I wanted to increase the efficiency of my fluorescent tubes .
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A huge fluorescent butterfly-shaped tube of rotating yellow and orange lights beams from an adjacent wall.
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Table 3 compares the effect of various switching cycles on the life of a typical fluorescent tube .
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Such a cabinet may contain a battery of fluorescent tubes , and samples should be held about one foot away from it.
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Clips for a fluorescent tube are fitted.
inner
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There we hoped to buy fruit, meat, sugar, sand-ladders and inner tubes .
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Biscuits are big, fat inner tubes pulled by speedboats.
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Cut a 5/8in wide band of bicycle inner tube .
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The seats of their stools are woven rubber inner tubes .
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The inner tube is negatively charged and the outer tube is made positive.
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The street waited for me the way a mako shark awaits limbs hanging from inner tubes .
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The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube.
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The inner glass tube contains a known mass of solvent.
long
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Adjustment was carried out from above water level by means of long driving tubes , operating down the centres of the columns.
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Stuck into the shavings were half a dozen long , slender tubes of bamboo.
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A long fluid-filled tube runs beneath the skin along the middle of each side of their body.
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Crimson plumes bloom atop long white tubes that emerge from cracks in glossy black lava.
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I don't brood on this too long because this isn't a long tube journey.
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A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
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The two long fluorescent tubes suspended from the ceiling blinked, then glimmered, then glowed into steady light.
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The long rubber stomach tube , the wooden gag with its leather straps to buckle behind the horns.
nasogastric
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Activated charcoal with sorbitol was administered by nasogastric tube .
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His nasogastric tube has from time to time to be removed or re-inserted.
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He can not feed himself and at present is fed by a nasogastric tube .
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A nasogastric tube had been passed.
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To aspirate the nasogastric tubes hourly.
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A nasogastric tube was inserted and maintained until 24 hours after treatment.
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A nasogastric tube and a urinary catheter were also passed.
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As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug, he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube .
neural
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It has been possible to measure directly the forces that the cells generate during the formation of the neural tube .
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Neural crest cells are a group that arise at the site where the folds of the neural tube fuse.
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Folate deficiency causes anaemia, but occasionally is associated with neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
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Even if vitamin supplementation did not prevent neural tube defects, what specific harm would result?
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The extent of cell death varied between embryos and between the two sides of the neural tube in individual embryos.
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The fortification of staple foods with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects may be unwisely delayed on this account.
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The estimated annual number of births affected with a neural tube defect is about 400,000 world wide.
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We will follow the later development of the brain and neural tube in Chapter 8.
■ NOUN
glass
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The inner glass tube contains a known mass of solvent.
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The glass tube shattering in a Thermos bottle?
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Tinbergen put each fish in a glass tube .
plastic
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He slipped out of the pony harness, withdrew the slim plastic tube and emptied the sticky gerbils back into their cage.
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The distal end of the intestinal segment was connected via a plastic tube to a basin on the plate.
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A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
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Firstly, we have to realise the full potential for growth and profitability of our plastic tube technology.
ray
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Indeed, much development work is required before cathode ray tube performance can be attained.
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The company manufactures chemicals that absorb gasses in vacuum containers such as cathode-#ray tubes used in televisions and stereos.
station
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Meanwhile, he shuffled off towards the tube station and Chancery Lane.
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If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tube station , she could get home almost on automatic pilot.
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Moore's drawing of Londoners sheltering from the blitz in tube stations are now celebrated.
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I arrived up in Camden Town and asked in the tube station for directions to the shelter.
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Casey is twenty yards from Balham tube station .
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Yacoubou officially opened the Saturday bookshop which the branch runs in the Hammersmith tube station .
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He remembered an old tramp he used to watch down by the tube station near where he lived.
steel
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The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm.
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The fuselage was of welded steel tube , faired to an oval section, with spruce formers, and fabric covered.
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Or you might want to think of a steel tube .
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The tall surfaces were of steel tube , fabric covered.
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The trees are anchored by 20 metre polyurethane roots, formed by injecting liquid chemicals down a steel tube .
test
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The test tube was then put in an ultrasound bath for 5 minutes.
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The father was a test tube baby.
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Unknown to the teacher he had taken with him a test tube of the acid to test its reaction with lavatory paper.
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Well, Watson, suppose now that I make up a test tube containing say ten grams of some strange new substance.
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Bunsen burners, Petri dishes, retorts and test tube holders winked enticingly.
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When introduced in test tubes , resistant enterococci read ily transfer their mutated genes for vancomycin resistance to staph bugs.
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This problem is also seen with embryos produced by other technologies that require embryos to be cultured in test tubes before implantation.
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In an invasive procedure, a doctor could extract one of her eggs and try to fertilize it in a test tube .
train
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But it was still a tube train , grubby and battered.
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A woman was travelling in a tube train one day during the rush hour.
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He thought about the incident in the tube train , but this almost induced total decline.
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He was in a tube train .
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For these include the London tube train , the steam engine, and the Southern Rail electric.
vacuum
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The ideal atmosphere for the vacuum tube is no atmosphere at all, or a perfect vacuum.
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Powered by vacuum tubes , those old radar units are now dinosaurs.
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The breath samples, stored in special vacuum tubes , are sent to Meretek for lab analysis.
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Just another snooty $ 3, 000 vacuum tube amplifier, I thought.
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Here he makes such suggestions as imitating simple neuron functions by using telegraph relays or vacuum tubes .
■ VERB
catch
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One evening, tired, hungry and frazzled, I caught the tube home from Central London.
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Her life splits in two as she alternately catches or misses the tube home.
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Quietly, competently, she shut up her flat before making her way to the Underground to catch the tube to Heathrow.
feed
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The analgesia is fed through a tube and topped up when necessary.
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Her feeding tube delivers formula 20 hours a day and must be kept clean to prevent infection.
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He can not feed himself and at present is fed by a nasogastric tube .
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The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers.
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At the moment, Gemma Swann can only be fed by a tube through her nose.
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His lawyers argue that Ashworth has no legal right to force-#feed him by tube .
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He has largely to be fed by a nasogastric tube .
insert
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Removing the nasal pack and inserting a nasopharyngeal tube did not improve matters.
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He was later transferred to Middlesbrough General, where he underwent a 2 7hour operation to insert a tube into his windpipe.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the boob tube
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What's on the boob tube?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fallopian tubes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Additionally, when a horizontal-head centrifuge stops. the tubes fall from the horizontal to the vertical position.
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Briefly, a vertical tube turned a blank glass eye on him and Ezra and the glass eye contemplated each other.
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Casey is twenty yards from Balham tube station.
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In the female this tube is broader than in the male.
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Sedimenting particles in the horizontal-head centrifuge must travel the entire length of the liquid in the tube .
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The mere presence of tubes turned the MITerminator 3 cables to a brittle mess.
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The wave spiralled forwards into a flawless but bone-crushing tube .