tube

Meaning

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. (colloquial) 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. (colloquial,obsolete) 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.)
5. (slang) A tin can containing beer.
6. A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
7. (colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
8. (slang) An idiot.

pipe

hollow cylinder

tube-shaped structure

subway system

the underground

thermionic tube

the T

thermionic vacuum tube

radio tube

smoking pipe

T.V.

canalis

passage-way

anything tubular

gun tube

gun-barrel

small tube

mass rapid transit

bronchial tubes

electronic valve

electron valve

tubularity

set casing

evacuated tube

rubber tube

electronic tube

radio valve

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tjuːb/

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.

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