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труба — meaning in English

truba

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English meaning

  • brush noun A tool with bristles attached to a handle, used for cleaning, painting, or grooming hair.
  • chimney noun A vertical structure that carries smoke and fumes up and out of a building.
  • duct noun A tube, pipe, or channel that carries a gas, liquid, or cable from one place to another.
  • pipe noun A rigid tube used to carry water, gas, or other fluids.
  • trumpet noun A brass musical instrument played by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece, typically with valves to change pitch.
  • tube noun A hollow cylinder used to carry liquid, gas, or other material.

Senses

труба is used for these senses in English:

  • brush The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
  • chimney A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
  • chimney (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
  • duct A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
  • pipe A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.]
  • trumpet (brass instrument) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
  • tube (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

brush — full definition

  1. noun A tool with bristles attached to a handle, used for cleaning, painting, or grooming hair.
  2. noun A brief, unpleasant encounter with something.
  3. noun Wild, low-growing vegetation such as shrubs and bushes.
  4. verb To clean, arrange, or apply something using a brush.
  5. verb To touch something lightly while passing by.

chimney — full definition

  1. noun A vertical structure that carries smoke and fumes up and out of a building.
  2. noun A narrow vertical crack in a rock face that climbers can wedge themselves into.

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