Hole and Tube

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Hole noun - A place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing.

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Tube and hole are semantically related in pipe topic. In some cases you can use "Tube" instead a noun "Hole".

Nearby Words: holed, holey, holer, holing

Tube noun - A long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas).

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Hole and tube are semantically related in pipe topic. Sometimes you can use "Hole" instead a noun "Tube".

Nearby Words: tub, tuber, tubed, tubing

A round tube with a hole is used to prop open the jaws and allow passage of the breathing tube down into the airway.

Source: Palate Propping
A effects of a hemothorax, bleeding into the pleural cavity, is rectified in a similar manner by cutting a hole into the cavity, stitching a rubber tube into the hole and letting the difference in air pressure force the blood into a bucket.

Source: Healing Shiv
And yet, he's still so addicted that despite having a surgical hole in his throat, he begs Mike for a cigarette and smokes it through his trachea tube.

Source: Film / Dead Again

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