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noun

a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.

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Origin of picture tube

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby picture tube

picture postcard, picture sash, picture show, picture spread, picturesque, picture tube, picture window, picture writing, picturize, picul, piculet

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How to use picture tube in a sentence

The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.
Funeral Protest Is Too Much for NYPD Union Boss|Michael Daly|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”
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I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.
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We want to give the families and the other cops, too, as clear a picture as we can.
Exclusive: Inside a Cop-Killer’s Final Hours|Michael Daly|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Each picture bore a label, giving a true description of the once-honoured gem.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Should the vapor not condense well, the test-tube may be immersed in a glass of cold water.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

British Dictionary definitions for picture tube

picture tube

noun

another name for television tube

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picture tube

Origin of picture tube

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