A stopper device on the tube-like container held food for the ants as they traveled to their new homes.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

A tube is placed inside the body to collect urine, so the patient does not have to get out of bed.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

A person attaches a tube to the goat and, after a little pumping, the milk begins to flow.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Each hair on a person's head grows from a single tube-like hole in the skin called a follicle.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Sharks and other ocean animals swim above and beside you as you walk through the tube.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The female mosquito uses its thin sucking tube to break the skin, find blood and inject the victim with a substance that keeps blood flowing.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

Warm air rising from below causes the wind tube to reach toward the ground.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Another popular type, the quill mum,has long, straight petals like a tube or needle.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

A tornado is a violently turning tube of air suspended from a thick cloud.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

In nineteen-oh-six, the electron tube was considered the single most important development in electronics.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Doctors place a long thin tube called a catheter into the heart.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

His most famous invention was the vacuum tube,or electron tube.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Visitors walk through a ninety-one meter glass tube.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

BP said it hoped to know within hours whether the tube had successfully diverted the oil to a tanker at the surface.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14