tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
enpr: chōōb
ipa: /tʃuːb/
note: yod-coalescence
note: without the yod-coalescence
enpr: tyōōb
ipa: /tjuːb/
note: without the yod-coalescence
note: yod-dropping
enpr: tōōb
ipa: /tuːb/
note: yod-dropping
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: tubes
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
examples: text: A tube of toothpaste.
glosses: An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
examples: text: I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.
text: He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared.
text: 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.
ref: 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 217:
qualifier: a trademark
glosses: 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.)
raw_tags: as Tube
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:
qualifier: a trademark
glosses: 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.)
One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
raw_tags: as Tube
examples: text: 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[.]
ref: 1967, The Kings Cross Whisper, number xlii., Sydney, page 7, column 4:
text: Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube.
ref: 1995, Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide [text repeated in Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]
text: 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.
ref: 2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries:
glosses: A tin can containing beer.
examples: text: It seemed like Butch was invincible, like he could do nothing wrong, coming through one unbelievable tube after another.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
examples: text: 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, […]
ref: 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Howard Beale (Peter Finch):
text: I sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on. I change the channels for an hour or two.
ref: 1994, Billie Joe Armstrong, “Longview”, in Dookie, performed by Green Day:
synonyms: word: boob tube
word: telly
glosses: A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
examples: text: '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.)
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 231:
text: I'm a tube? Who got done for speeding? Who got lifted for bloody assault?
ref: 2010, Karen Campbell, The Twilight Time, →ISBN:
glosses: An idiot.
Synonyms: word: tube
Hyponyms: word: pipe
word: duct
word: hose
word: pipette
word: tubule
word: macaroni
word: test tube
word: vacuum tube
word: straw
word: sewer
word: siphon
word: tobacco pipe
word: water pipe
word: waste pipe
word: downspout
word: drainpipe
word: leader
word: flue
word: chimney
word: smokestack
word: funnel
word: nozzle
word: blowpipe
word: tuba
word: organ pipe
word: flute
word: flageolet
word: clarinet
word: saxophone
word: bassoon
word: trumpet
word: artery
word: catheter
word: cloaca
word: esophagus
word: Eustachian tube
word: throat
word: trachea
word: ureter
word: bronchus
word: bronchiole
word: larynx
word: vagina
word: vas deferens
word: vein
word: vessel
word: windpipe
word: Wolffian duct
word: Müllerian duct
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
conjugating 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
head tube
headtube
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
storage tube
streamtube
supertube
Sutton tube
teletube
television tube
test tube
test tube baby
test-tube baby
thermionic tube
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 amplifier
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
tubeworm
tube worm
tube wrench
tubey
tubicolous
tubiform
tubing
tubocanaliculate
tubography
tuboid
tuboplasty
tubular
uterine tube
U-tube
vacuum tube
Venturi tube
venturi tube
vortex tube
VR tube
water tube
water-tube boiler
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
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