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The only thing that was done was to sneer at them whenever opportunity served, and to give them aspeakingtube.
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Aspeakingtubewas provided to allow the passengers to communicate with the pilot.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Original mechanical devises in the home include aspeakingtube, doorbell system and a corner light system.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Aspeakingtubewas tried, but found to be useless.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The student pilot and instructor sat in tandem in a single, open cockpit and communicated through aspeakingtube.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These holes acted as the receiving area for the acoustics, which were transmitted to the back of the throne via aspeakingtube, and into the king's ear.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Speaking tubes were also considered for communication between curatorial staff, but not for environmental controls.
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The tank commander communicated with the driver byspeakingtube, which was replaced with a signalling lamp in 1932.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A luggage lift andspeakingtubeserved all three floors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The now mostly obsoletespeakingtubeserved to transmit sounds to a remote location with minimal loss and distortion, as a simple coaxial cable or waveguide does for electrical signals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Morley lives in an apartment suite on the second floor, reached by a set of stairs near the bar; aspeakingtubeallows the bartender to communicate with him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Edgar hears this from his own room through aspeakingtube, but he is unwilling to wait for the inheritance, and plots to eliminate the cats.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ben has to explain to the people above via the dumbwaiter'sspeakingtubethat there is no food.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Several speaking tubes could be hung from the edge of a desk to communicate with different locations.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ducts can be effective speaking tubes; the speech attenuation is particularly weak in unlined metal ducts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His office contained an elaborate array of communication devices, 50 speaking tubes, 50 electric bells and 50 annunciators which connected to all departments.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.