English Explanatory Dictionary

tube

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
  2. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
  3. 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.)
  4. One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
  5. A tin can containing beer.
  6. A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
  7. A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
  8. An idiot.
  9. Short for speaking tube.
verb
  1. To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
  2. To ride an inner tube.
  3. To intubate.
name
  1. The London Underground.

Pronunciation

tōōb /tuːb/ chōōb /tʃuːb/ tyōōb /tjuːb/ En-uk-tube.ogg En-uk-tube2.ogg en-au-tube.ogg

Word forms

tube tubes tubing tubed the Tube

Etymology

From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”), related to tuba (“long trumpet; war-trumpet”), of obscure ultimate origin, but possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there. Doublet of tubus.

Synonyms

tube boob tube telly

Derived words

Abbott-Miller tube artillery tube audion tube auditory tube banded tube blowtube boiler tube boiling tube boob tube Braun tube bronchial tube buckytube cathode ray tube cathode-ray tube chest tube chocolate tube slime choke tube conjugating tube Coolidge tube Crookes tube cryotube dip tube discharge tube down the tube down the tubes downtube down tube drawtube drowned tube Edlich tube Eggertz tube electron tube Eppendorf tube Eustachean tube Eustachian tube Eustachian tube dysfunction Ewald tube Falcon tube fallopian tube feeding tube field tube filter tube firetube fishing-tube flashtube float tube flop tube fluorescent tube fluxtube Galloway tube Geiger–Müller tube Geissler tube Gerber tube germ tube giant tube worm go down the tube Gosport tube groan tube head tube headtube

Translations

Albanian: tub Arabic: مَاسُورَة Arabic: أُنْبُوب Armenian: խողովակ Armenian: փող Asturian: tubu Basque: tutu Belarusian: труба́ Bulgarian: тръба́ Catalan: tub Chinese Mandarin: 管 Chinese Mandarin: 筒 Czech: roura Czech: trubka Dutch: buis Esperanto: tubo Finnish: putki French: tuyau Galician: tubo Georgian: მილი German: Rohr German: Röhre German: Schluuch Greek: σωλήνας Ancient Greek: σωλήν Hawaiian: ʻohe Hungarian: cső Icelandic: rör Indonesian: tabung Italian: tubo Japanese: 管 Japanese: 筒 Japanese: チューブ Japanese: パイプ Kazakh: құбыр Khmer: ទុយយោ Khmer: បំពង់ Korean: 관 Korean: 튜브 Lao: ກະບອກ Latin: tubus Māori: ngongo Māori: pū Mongolian: хоолой Iranian Persian: لولِه Plautdietsch: Schlauch Polish: rura Portuguese: tubo Quechua: anku Romanian: tub Russian: труба́ Russian: тру́бка Serbo-Croatian: ције̑в Serbo-Croatian: це̑в Serbo-Croatian: cijȇv Serbo-Croatian: cȇv
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