color tube
- noun
- /ˈkʌlər tuːb/
- Archaic
:
tubo de color
- The repair technician replaced the faulty color tube in the old television to restore vibrant images.
Examples
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When I opened the back of the television, I could see the color tube, which was responsible for displaying bright colors.
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Older televisions often used a color tube to produce images, unlike the flat screens of today.
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I couldn't figure out why the whole room looked like a TV screen with a broken color tube, and then I noticed every single lamp had a pink bulb in it.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
1
5.8
A long glass tube inside old televisions that makes the picture on the screen
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9.9
A glass tube with a screen that shows early TV pictures
A part inside a color television that makes red, green and blue pictures
A part of a television that uses three colors to make pictures
A large glass part inside old televisions that shows pictures in color
A glass bulb inside older televisions that makes the screen show color pictures
A glass tube inside old TVs that makes the picture on the screen
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a picture tube that displays images in full color' is directly and compositionally derived from 'color' (having color) + 'tube' (a cylindrical tube/device). This is a straightforward noun + noun compound denoting a tube related to color display (a TV picture tube), a pattern that is cross-linguistically transparent and therefore likely understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The name color tube comes from old televisions where a glass tube inside the set made pictures by mixing color lights like red, green, and blue. So, color tube came to mean the TV's picture tube that 'shows pictures in full color'.