WordNet
n. a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen [syn: kinescope, picture tube]
Usage examples of "television tube".
What about a television tube that would explode, or a Ping-Pong ball loaded with potassium chlorate and black powder?
Thus the tube was an ordinary television tube but instead of a station somewhere sending out signals, it was the mind that sent out signals, so you could watch what you were thinking.
He recalled very vaguely that a television tube works because it shoots a beam of electrons from the small end against the large end.
Reed could not recall his dream, merely the fact that he had awakened in a cold sweat, thankful that the visions that had haunted his sleep had winked out like the picture on a television tube the instant his eyes had snapped open.
There was a picture Of one cowboy g another one pasted to the television tube.
There was a picture of one cowboy shooting another one pasted to the television tube.
You thought I was the nice, understanding, omniscient psychiatrist right off the television tube.
A television tube had scanned it, compared it to the correct answers in highly flexible fashion, and recorded a pass.
The intense curiosity children have, their trips of fantasy in lands of goblins and ghosts, their visions of grandeur are reduced to imagery by the portrait of life as seen on the television tube.
But with a scanning apparatus operating on the principle of a television tube, the liquid could be discerned at great distance as a noticeable blotch in the night.