TUBE

metro, tube, underground, subway system, subway

(noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); “in Paris the subway system is called the ‘metro’ and in London it is called the ‘tube’ or the ‘underground’”

tube, tubing

(noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve

(noun) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

tube, tube-shaped structure

(noun) (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

pipe, tube

(noun) a hollow cylindrical shape

tube

(verb) place or enclose in a tube

tube

(verb) ride or float on an inflated tube; “We tubed down the river on a hot summer day”

tube

(verb) convey in a tube; “inside Paris, they used to tube mail”

tube

(verb) provide with a tube or insert a tube into

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

the Tube

(informal) The London Underground

Anagrams

• Bute, bute

Etymology

Noun

tube (plural tubes)

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

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

(British, colloquial, often capitalized as Tube) 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.)

(Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

(North America, colloquial) A television.

Synonyms: boob tube (derogatory), telly (British)

(Scotland, slang) An idiot.

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 tube

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.

To ride an inner tube.

(medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.

Anagrams

• Bute, bute

Source: Wiktionary

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Tube, n. Etym: [L.tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.]

1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

2. A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." Milton.

3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

4. (Bot.)

Definition: The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

5. (Gun.)

Definition: A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

6. (Steam Boilers)

Definition: A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

7. (Zoöl.) (a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. (b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary.

– Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue.

– Tube coral. (Zoöl.) Same as Tubipore.

– Tube foot (Zoöl.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm.

– Tube plate, or Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under Flue.

– Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes.

– Tube spinner (Zoöl.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera.

– Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.

Tube, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tubed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tubing.]

Definition: To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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