# tube
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: tyōōb, IPA: /tjuːb/
* (yod-coalescence) enPR: chōōb, IPA: /tʃuːb/
* (yod-dropping) enPR: tōōb, IPA: /tuːb/
* Audio (UK):(file)
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* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːb

### Noun

tube (plural tubes)
* Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
** 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
* An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
    A tube of toothpaste.
* (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) 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.
** 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 217: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.
** (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
*** 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine‎:And thus it came about that on that October morning I found myself in the deep level tube with the Professor speeding to the North of London in what proved to be one of the most singular experiences of my remarkable life.
* (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
** 1967, The Kings Cross Whisper, number xlii., Sydney, page 7, column 4: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[.]
** 1995, Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit:Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube.
** 2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide [text repeated in Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]
    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.
** 2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries:That Humphries should imply that, in the Foster's ads, Hogan's ocker appropriated McKenzie's discourse (specifically the idiom "crack an ice-cold tube") reinforces my contention.
* (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
** 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:It seemed like Butch was invincible, like he could do nothing wrong, coming through one unbelievable tube after another.
* (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
    Synonyms: (derogatory) boob tube, (British) telly
** 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Howard Beale (Peter Finch):Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation; this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers; this tube is the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, […]
** 1994, Billie Joe Armstrong (lyrics and music), “Longview”, in Dookie, performed by Green Day:I sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on. I change the channels for an hour or two.
* (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
** 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 231:'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.)
** 2010, Karen Campbell, The Twilight Time, →ISBN:I'm a tube? Who got done for speeding? Who got lifted for bloody assault?

#### Usage notes

Use for beer can was popularised in UK by a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's lager, where Paul Hogan used a phrase "crack an ice-cold tube" previously associated with Barry Humphries' character Barry McKenzie. (For discussion of this see Paul Matthew St. Pierre's book cited above.)

#### Hyponyms

* See also Thesaurus:tube

#### Derived terms

* 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
* Coolidge tube
* Crookes tube
* cryotube
* dip tube
* discharge tube
* down the tube
* down the tubes
* down tube
* downtube
* drawtube
* drowned tube
* Edlich tube
* Eggertz tube
* electron tube
* Eppendorf tube
* Eustachean tube, Eustachian tube, eustachian tube
* Eustachian tube dysfunction
* Ewald tube
* Falcon tube
* fallopian 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
* headtube
* head tube
* hemotube
* Hittorf tube
* honey tube
* hot tube
* ignition tube test
* image tube
* immunotube
* inner tube
* innertube
* intertube
* intratube
* intubate
* knob and tube, knob-and-tube
* Kundt's tube
* Kundt tube
* lava tube
* Lenard tube
* microfuge tube
* microtube
* Miescher's tube
* Miller-Abbott tube
* monotube
* muck tube
* multitube
* myotube
* nanotube
* neural tube
* Nixie tube
* noob tube
* overtube
* peanut tube
* pharyngotympanic tube
* photoglow tube
* photomultiplier tube
* phototube
* picture tube
* pitot tube
* Plücker tube
* pollen tube
* polytube
* porn tube
* put the toothpaste back in the tube
* Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube
* relief tube
* Replogle tube
* retube
* round-eared tube-nosed bat
* Rubens' tube
* safety tube
* sampling tube
* sand tube worm
* sap tube
* Schlenk tube
* seat tube
* Sengstaken-Blakemore tube
* sieve-tube element
* Smurf tube
* speaking tube
* sploof
* steerer tube
* steer tube
* streamtube
* supertube
* Sutton tube
* teletube
* television tube
* test tube
* test tube baby, test-tube baby
* thermotube
* thief tube
* thistle tube
* thunder tube
* toilet tube
* toke tube
* toothpaste is out of the tube
* top tube
* torpedo tube
* Torricellian tube
* traveling wave tube
* traveling-wave tube, travelling wave tube, travelling-wave tube
* tubal
* tube artillery
* tubectomy
* tube cutter
* tube feeding syndrome
* tube foot
* tubeform
* tubeful
* tubeless
* tubelet
* tube lichen
* tubelight
* tubelike
* tubemaker
* tubemaking
* tubenose
* tubeplate
* tube shooter
* tubeshoulder
* tube site
* tube skirt
* tubesnout
* tube sock
* tube socket
* tube station
* tube-steak
* tube steak
* tube top
* tube train
* tube tying
* tubeway
* tube well
* tubework
* tube worm
* tubeworm
* tubey
* tubicolous
* tubiform
* tubing
* tubocanaliculate
* tubography
* tuboid
* tuboplasty
* tubular
* uterine tube
* U-tube
* vacuum tube
* Venturi tube, venturi tube
* vortex tube
* VR tube
* whirly tube
* X-ray tube
* you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube
* YouTube

#### Translations
### Verb

tube (third-person singular simple present tubes, present participle tubing, simple past and past participle tubed)
* (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
    She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
* To ride an inner tube.
    They tubed down the Colorado River.
* (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
    The patient was tubed.

### See also

* tube on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* bute, Bute, Tebu

## Estonian
### Noun

tube
* partitive plural of tuba

## French
### Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tyb/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tube m (plural tubes)
* pipe
* tube
* (informal, music) a hit
    Chacune de ses chansons était un tube. ― Every one of his/her songs was a hit.
* (slang) money

#### Derived terms

* tube à essai
* tube auditif
* tube cathodique
* tube digestif
* tube pollinique

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: tub
* → Turkish: tüp

### Further reading

* “tube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* bute, buté

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtu.be/
* Rhymes: -ube
* Hyphenation: tù‧be

### Noun

tube f
* plural of tuba

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtu.be/, [ˈt̪ʊbɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtu.be/, [ˈt̪uːbe]

### Noun

tube
* vocative singular of tubus

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Latin tubus.

### Noun

tube m (plural tubes)
* conduit; canal; pipe

#### Descendants

* French: tube
** → Romanian: tub
** → Turkish: tüp
* → English: tube

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (tube, supplement)

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* choob

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tjub/, /tʃub/

### Noun

tube (plural tubes)
* wanker, asshole, dickhead
** 1994, Irvine Welsh, Acid House:Come ahead then, ya fuckin weedjie cunts. Ah’m no exactly gaunny burst oot greetin cause some specky cunt’s five minutes late wi ma feed now, um uh? Fucking tube.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2013, Pedro Lenz, translated by Donal McLaughlin, Naw Much of a Talker, Freight Books, page 4:Sorry but Uli's just a tube [translating Pajass] but. Ah didnae say that tae Paco, o course. Ah keep it tae masel jist.(please add an English translation of this quotation)