tube

Plural: tubes

Noun

• conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
• electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
• a hollow cylindrical shape
• (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
• an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
  • "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"
• Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
• An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
• The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
• The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
• One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
• A tin can containing beer.
• A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
• A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
• An idiot.

Verb

Verb Forms: tubed, tubing, tubes

• To provide with a tube; to convey through a tube.
• provide with a tube or insert a tube into
• convey in a tube
  • "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"
• ride or float on an inflated tube
  • "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"
• place or enclose in a tube
• To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
• To ride an inner tube.
• To intubate.

Examples

• A tube of toothpaste.
• He needed to tube the letters together to form a coherent, high-scoring word.
• He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared.
• I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.
• She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
• The patient was tubed.
• They tubed down the Colorado River.

Synonyms

electron tube, metro, pipe, subway, subway system, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, tube-shaped structure, tubing, underground, vacuum tube, boob tube, telly, tube

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