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発音

• enPR: tyo͞obyo͝olər, enPR: tyo͞obyələr
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtjuːbjʊlə/, /ˈt͡ʃuː-/, /-bjə-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈt(j)ubjələɹ/, /-bju-/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈtjʉːbjʊlə(ɹ)/, /ˈtjʉːbjələ(ɹ)/
• ハイフネーション: tu‧bul‧ar

形容詞

tubular (comparative more tubular, superlative most tubular)

1. Shaped like a tube.

   tubular bell

   • 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:

     As we descended the long wooden stairway that leads from the central tower to the Island of Inchgarvie, the straight and simple outlines of the internal viaduct stood out in sharp contrast to the long sweep of the massive tubular arms of the cantilevers, and the complicated network of the lattice cross girders.

2. Relating to, or composed of, tubes or tubules.
3. (US, slang, dated) Cool, awesome.
   • 2007, Brian Laesch, The Verge of Psychosis: An Aspiring Actor's Journal:

     It was such a tubular party, Journal! But a few minutes later, I walked up to the Hermosa Beach Pier and left the girls with my things, thinking the totally bitchin' party would continue. But when I got back, they were all gone.

同意語

• cannular
• tubiform
• tuboid
• tuboidal

派生語

関連する語

• tubularity
• tubularly

参考

• cylindrical
• tubular assault
• tubular boiler
• tubular breathing
• tubular bridge
• tubular girder

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