Tube time
Time spent at a terminal or console. More inclusive than hacking time; commonly used in discussions of what parts of one’s environment one uses most heavily. “I find I’m spending too much of my tube time reading mail since I started this revision.”
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- Tube-top
noun 1. a woman’s strapless top, usually of elasticized fabric that fits snugly on the body.
- Tubeworm
noun, Zoology. 1. any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
- Tubi-
1. a combining form representing tube, in compound words: tubiform.
- Tubicolous
adjective 1. living in a self-constructed tube, as a marine worm. adjective 1. (of certain invertebrate animals) living in a self-constructed tube
- Tubifex
noun, plural tubifexes (especially collectively) tubifex. 1. any common, bottom-dwelling worm of the genus Tubifex, often used as food for aquarium fish. noun (pl) -fex, -fexes 1. any small reddish freshwater oligochaete worm of the genus Tubifex; it characteristically lives in a tube in sand and is used as food for aquarium fish