Definitions
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- adjective constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)
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Examples
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Two outgrowths come out from the seat and support the tube-shaped steel footrest.
Woody Wood Rug 2010
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A heart of palm is the white tube-shaped sort of asparagus-tasting thing that comes from the inner core of certain palm trees.
Haute Coals: Frilly Grilling on the Backyard BBQ Gwendolyn Bounds 2011
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Or tube-shaped, tomato-sauced cannelloni hiding soft ground veal in their centers.
Tom Sietsema on Girasole: A good spot to stop in Virginia's hunt country for good Italian Tom Sietsema 2010
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Alcoa lost out in the mid-2000s when Boeing switched from aluminum wings and aluminum fuselages—the skin covering the tube-shaped body of the plane—to more lightweight carbon-fiber composites for its twin-aisle 787s.
Alcoa Unveils New Plane Materials to Compete With Composites Robert Guy Matthews 2011
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Mr. Bartholomew's tube-shaped personal energy generator, called the nPower PEG, can turn 15 minutes of walking into a minute of phone talk time.
Take Zap! Tech Geeks, Starved for More Battery Power, Give Themselves a Charge Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012
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Or tube-shaped, tomato-sauced cannelloni hiding soft ground veal in their centers.
Tom Sietsema on Girasole: A good spot to stop in Virginia's hunt country for good Italian Tom Sietsema 2010
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This type is a kind of very small tube-shaped pasta.
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Alcoa lost out in the mid-2000s when Boeing switched from aluminum wings and aluminum fuselages—the skin covering the tube-shaped body of the plane—to more lightweight carbon-fiber composites for its twin-aisle 787s.
Alcoa Unveils New Plane Materials to Compete With Composites Robert Guy Matthews 2011
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So versatile is this mélange of summer ingredients that it often ends up as a pasta sauce, working well with larger, tube-shaped pastas.
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Bimobah pulled out a long tube-shaped object wrapped in layers of red rags and wound with string.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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