tube
IPA: tˈub
noun
- 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.
- (Britain, 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.)
- (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (informal) The London Underground
verb
- (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
- To ride an inner tube.
- (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
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Examples of "tube" in Sentences
- The toothpaste is out of the tube.
- The water from the nets drips into a tube.
- The fluid flows into the canals of the Fallopian tubes.
- The water vapor passes through the tube into the carburetor.
- The condensed fresh water on the outside of the tubes is removed.
- Tapping the end of a tube will cause flow of liquid inside the system.
- The water lines at the sides and the air space at the top of the tube.
- Maybe the water molecules are attracted to the sides of the capillary tube.
- The current flows through the liquid metal by the small orifice in the tube.
- The flow through the tube is unobstructed when the valve is in open position.