Crossword clues for tubular
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tubular \Tu"bu*lar\, a. [L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, or pipe. See Tube.] Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.
Tubular boiler. See under Boiler.
Tubular breathing (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.
Tubular bridge, 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.
Tubular girder, a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "having the form of a tube or pipe," from Latin tubulus "a small pipe" (see tube) + -ar. Teen slang sense attested by 1982, Valspeak, apparently from surfers' use of tube as slang for a hollow, curling wave, ideal for riding (1962).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Shaped like a tube. 2 Of or pertaining to a tube. 3 Consisting of tubes. 4 (context slang dated English) cool, awesome.
WordNet
adj. having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) [syn: cannular]
Wikipedia
Tubular may refer to:
- the form of a cylinder or tube
- Tubular, a television-related entertainment blog on the Houston Chronicle website
- Tubular, a level in the video game Super Mario World
- Tubular, surf culture slang for cool or awesome, derived from catching a wave and getting in the tube
- Tubulars (people), a former ethnic group in Russia
The adjective is often applied to items which are somewhat tubular in shape:
- Tubular bell, musical instruments (also known as chimes) in the percussion family
- Tubular bridge, a bridge built as a rigid box girder section, with the traffic carried within the section
- Tubular chassis or superleggera, a type of automobile construction technique used only in expensive sports cars
- Tubular Gallery, a large diameter, round, tubular steel structure used to enclose a troughed conveyor belt
- Tubular lock pick, a specialized lockpicking tool used for opening a tubular pin locking cylinder
- Tubular NDT, a nondestructive method of testing industrial products for hidden defects
- Tubular neighborhood, a mathematical concept
- Tubular-pneumatic action, a playing action for pipe organs, in which key and stop activity is transmitted from the console to the windchest via pneumatic impulses traveling through tubes
- Tubular tyres, bicycle tires (tyres) which are glued onto their rims
The adjective is often applied to parts of the body which resemble or are composed of tube-like members:
- Tubular gland
- parts of the kidney:
- distal convoluted tubule
- uriniferous tubule
- tubular fluid, the fluid in the tubules of the kidney
Usage examples of "tubular".
The leaves below the archegonial group are frequently modified in size and shape, but the chief protection is afforded by a tubular perianth, which corresponds to a coherent whorl of leaves and grows up independently of fertilization.
When the archegonium opens by the separation of the cells at the tip, the disorganized canal-cells escape, leaving a narrow tubular passage leading down to the ovum.
This was nothing more than a small propeller, or series of them, mounted in a tubular foramen wrought through the body of the aerostat, drawing in air at one end and forcing it out the other to generate thrust.
Venus, our folk are already delivering to your vessel phials of drugs, fabrics, and the tubular fullerenes we know your folk especially prize.
It consists of a pair of tubular girders with solid or plate sides stiffened by angle irons, one line of rails passing through each tube.
Matthew Maule picked up one of the lightweight poolside chairs, a folding construction of thin tubular metal and plastic webbing, and carried it back with him into the sheltered aisle behind the row of tall live plants.
A mop-headed Rasta groupie with a tubular stoned look watched, and a coyote with a kelp mane howled with his head thrown back.
Dated to 54,000 years ago, it consisted of a tubular piece of bone, found at Divje Babe near Reke in western Slovenia, containing two complete holes, and two incomplete ones, in a straight line.
Both the tubular and the saccular glands may, by branching, form a great number of similar divisions which are connected with one another, and which communicate by a common opening with the place where the secretion is used.
They had been swimming through a long, tubular chamber filled with stalactites and stalagmites that jutted from above and below and threatened to snag them as they were pulled along by their hydromagnetic drives.
Stalagmites squatted like gargoyles on the cave floor while tubular stalactites hung overhead, twisting in serpentine fashion.
A tubular gong was struck within, the doors opened, and Sayren Stund led his guests inside.
In it was a pile of equipment, including oxygen cylinders, a thermic lance holder, bundles of lances, some tubular scaffolding, a block and tackle, a tarpaulin, a couple of steel-wire nets and a steel T-bar with folding arms.
Another signal and they started unloading the equipment -he and Jock the oxygen cylinder, thermic lances and other gear, including the guns, Eddie and Joseph the tarpaulin, tubular scaffolding, and the block and tackle.
His aggressive appearance was further enhanced by a trait common among achondroplastic dwarfs: because their tubular bones are shortened, their muscle mass is concentrated, creating an impression of considerable strength.