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tube

noun
/tuːb/

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.

  1. derived from tubus — “tube, pipe”
  2. derived from tube

Definitions

  1. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

  2. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used…

    An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

    • A tube of toothpaste.

  3. The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that…

    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.)

    • I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.
    • He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared.
    • The economist also observed that some of the Victoria Line's cost should be debited to existing lines, as they would benefit from the rebuilding of their interchange stations with the new tube.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A tin can containing beer.

      • It's alright to cop a warm tube of Fosters and a cold pie 'n' peas when you're dated by one of the locals[.]
      • Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube.
      • Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's) in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies' or ‘tubes') or bottles (‘stubbies') of 375ml each.

    2. A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

      • It seemed like Butch was invincible, like he could do nothing wrong, coming through one unbelievable tube after another.

    3. A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

      • I sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on. I change the channels for an hour or two.

    4. An idiot.

      • 'Don't be a bloody tube, Jack,' she told me. (I always loved it when she used Scottish terms of abuse in that English accent of hers.)
      • I'm a tube? Who got done for speeding? Who got lifted for bloody assault?

    5. Short for speaking tube.

    6. To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

      • She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.

    7. To ride an inner tube.

      • They tubed down the Colorado River.

    8. To intubate.

      • The patient was tubed.

    9. The London Underground.

      • Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous).

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Derived

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 · +168 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tube. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tube. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at tube

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA