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Webster 1913 Edition
Tube
Tube
,Noun.
[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.)
The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
6.
(Steam Boilers)
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.
(Zool.)
(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
. (Zool.)
Same as
– Tubipore
. Tube foot
(Zool.)
, 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
(Zool.)
, 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
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tubed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tubing
.] To furnish with a tube;
as, to
. tube
a wellWebster 1828 Edition
Tube
TUBE
,Noun.
1.
A vessel of animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.2.
In botany, the narrow hollow part of a monopetalous corol, by which it is fixed to the receptacle.3.
In artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing.TUBE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
Tube
Tube
English
Proper noun
Tube
- (informal) The London Underground
Translations
informal: the London underground
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Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Noun
Tube f (genitive Tube, plural Tuben)
- tube (container)
- Fallopian tube
Derived terms
- Zahnpastatube f
tube
tube
English
Noun
tube (plural tubes)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- 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.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a **** top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.
- A tube of toothpaste.
- (Britain, 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.)
- No mate, I am taking the tube!
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).
- 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.
- 1995, Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.
- Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?
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 Wikisaurus:tube
Derived terms
Terms derived from tube
Translations
a pipe
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cylindrical container
the London underground — see Tube
a tin can
Verb
tube (third-person singular simple present tubes, present participle tubing, simple past and past participle tubed)
- To make or use tubes
- She tubes lipstick.
- They tubed down the Colorado River.
See also
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tyb/
Noun
tube m (plural tubes)
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
Noun
tube m (plural tubes)
Descendants
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tube, supplement)
Scots
Alternative forms
- choob
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tjub/, /tʃub/
Noun
tube (plural tubes)
- wanker, ****, dickhead
- 1994, Irvine Welsh, Acid House:
- Come ahead then, ya fuckin weedjie ****. Ah’m no exactly gaunny burst oot greetin cause some specky ****’s five minutes late wi ma feed now, um uh? **** tube.
- 2013, Donal McLaughlin, translating Pedro Lenz, Naw Much of a Talker, Freight Books 2013, p. 4:
- Sorry but Uli's just a tube [transl. Pajass] but. Ah didnae say that tae Paco, o course. Ah keep it tae masel jist.
- 1994, Irvine Welsh, Acid House: