Phrase guide

test tube

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A glass tube, rounded at one end and open at the other, used for small-scale laboratory tests.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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2

noun

Meaning 2

glass tube closed at one end

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tube, tubing

History

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Across languages

Translations

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: provëz — glass tube
  • Albanian: epruvetë — glass tube
  • Bulgarian: епруве́тка (epruvétka) — glass tube
  • Catalan: tub d'assaig — glass tube
  • Chinese Mandarin: 試管 /试管 (shìguǎn) — glass tube
  • Czech: zkumavka — glass tube
  • Danish: reagensglas — glass tube
  • Dutch: reageerbuis — glass tube
  • Dutch: proefbuis — glass tube
  • Finnish: koeputki — glass tube
  • French: tube à essai — glass tube
  • French: éprouvette — glass tube
  • West-Frisian: reagearbuiske — glass tube
  • German: Reagenzglas — glass tube
  • Greek: δοκιμαστικός σωλήνας (dokimastikós solínas) — glass tube
  • Gujarati: કસનળી (kasnaḷī) — glass tube
  • Hebrew: מבחנה (mavhena) — glass tube
  • Hungarian: kémcső — glass tube
  • Icelandic: tilraunaglas — glass tube
  • Italian: provetta — glass tube
  • Japanese: 試験管 (shikenkan) — glass tube
  • Kazakh: сынауық (synauyq) — glass tube
  • Khmer: បំពង់សាក (bâmpôngsak) — glass tube
  • Korean: 시험관 (siheomgwan) — glass tube
  • Northern Kurdish: lûleya azmûnê — glass tube
  • Latvian: mēģene — glass tube
  • Lithuanian: mėgintuvėlis — glass tube
  • Macedonian: епрувета (epruveta) — glass tube
  • Malay: tabung uji — glass tube
  • Māori: ipuipu — glass tube
  • Nepali: टेस्ट ट्यूब (ṭesṭ ṭyūb) — glass tube
  • Norwegian Bokmål: prøverør — glass tube
  • Norwegian Bokmål: reagensglass — glass tube
  • Norwegian Bokmål: reagensrør — glass tube
  • Plautdietsch: Proowglauss — glass tube
  • Polish: próbówka — glass tube
  • Polish: probówka — glass tube
  • Portuguese: proveta — glass tube
  • Portuguese: tubo de ensaio — glass tube
  • Punjabi: ਪਰੀਖਿਆ ਨਾਲ਼ੀ (parīkhiā nāḷī) — glass tube
  • Romanian: eprubetă — glass tube
  • Russian: проби́рка (probírka) — glass tube
  • Serbo-Croatian: epruveta — glass tube
  • Slovak: skúmavka — glass tube
  • Spanish: tubo de ensayo — glass tube
  • Swedish: provrör — glass tube
  • Tagalog: subukang tubo — glass tube
  • Thai: หลอดทดลอง (lɔ̀ɔt-tót-lɔɔng) — glass tube
  • Tibetan: ཚོད་ལྟ་ཤེལ་སྟོང (tshod lta shel stong) — glass tube
  • Turkish: deney tüpü — glass tube
  • Vietnamese: ống nghiệm — glass tube
  • Welsh: tiwb prawf — glass tube