tube

Meaning

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
2. To ride an inner tube.
3. (colloquial, transitive) To intubate.

Synonyms

pipe

subway

barrel

duct

cylinder

underground

metro

🚇

valve

tubing

channel

conduit

vacuum tube

hose

canal

subway system

electron tube

pipeline

hollow cylinder

the underground

tube-shaped structure

the T

El

ductus

thermionic valve

nozzle

thermionic tube

tunnel

vessel

thermionic vacuum tube

drain

inner tube

cavity

hole

🕳️

container

radio tube

rod

salpinx

stem

tubular

gangway

galoot

formative

fathead

conductor

cap

entryway

column

pathway

electronic tube

chute

Translations

tube

tubo

tubo

Rohr

tuyau

tubo

buis

Röhre

Schlauch

tub

cano

σωλήνας

pijp

métro

🚇

Untergrundbahn

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tjuːb/

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.