Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or shaped like a tube.
- adjective Consisting of tubes or a tube.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a tube or pipe, without reference to size; tubuliform; tubiform; tubar; fistulous.
- In botany, tube-like; tube-shaped; having a tube; tubulous: as, a tubular corolla or calyx.
- As applied to respiratory sounds, noting a sound like that produced by a current of air through a tube.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular
- adjective See under
Boiler . - adjective (Med.) a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea.
- adjective a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits.
- adjective a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
tube . - adjective Of or pertaining to a tube.
- adjective Consisting of tubes.
- adjective slang, dated
Cool ,awesome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)
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Examples
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SHAPIRO: Vita Needle is as competitive as ever, holding onto 10 percent of the market in tubular products.
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SHAPIRO: Vita Needle is as competitive as ever, holding onto 10 percent of the market in tubular products.
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SHAPIRO: Vita Needle is as competitive as ever, holding onto 10 percent of the market in tubular products.
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Other objects such as polished green stone, in tubular and spherical shapes, had a symbolic value with religious meaning.
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Other objects such as polished green stone, in tubular and spherical shapes, had a symbolic value with religious meaning.
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Other objects such as polished green stone, in tubular and spherical shapes, had a symbolic value with religious meaning.
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SKiN offers innovative technology, such as its supporting frame in tubular pretensioned aluminium, with foam rubber inserts which act as the base for the structure cover in leather or double face felt, featuring self-modelling geometric incisions.
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Not to excuse my product, but a 1.5mm cut on the tread that could eventually translate into a bigger damage on the tube at 110-120 psi on a tubular is a repair that is very difficult to achieve, not to mention holding the seal.
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My wife calls the tubular pillow a “bolster”, which seems to hold up in a google search.
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When the critical level has been reached in the kidneys, Cadmium excretion via the urine increases suddenly; simultaneously proteins appear in the urine (a situation referred to as tubular proteinurial).
Chapter 13 1996
slumry commented on the word tubular
In the sense of awesome, said to date from the advent of vacuum tubes.
July 29, 2015