Tube

Noun

 * 1) Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
 * 2) An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.
 * A tube of toothpaste.
 * 1)  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!
 * 1)  A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?)
 * 2) * 1995, Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit
 * Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube.
 * 1) * 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 375 ml each.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
 * 2)  A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly
 * Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:tube

Derived terms

 * buckytube
 * cathode ray tube
 * Fallopian tube
 * inner tube
 * intubate
 * nanotube
 * picture tube


 * test tube
 * tubal
 * tubing
 * tuboplasty
 * tubular
 * vacuum tube

Verb

 * 1) To make or use tubes
 * She tubes lipstick.
 * They tubed down the Colorado River.

Adjectives for Tube
pneumatic; elegant; ivory; tortuous; magic; hollow; perforated; delicate; slender; golden; railway; twisted.

Verbs for Tube
coke—; clog—; convolute—; couple—s; dam —; deflate—; dilate—; distend—; drain—; inflate—; insert—; line—; narrow—; obstruct—; penetrate—; perforate—; pierce—; plug—; puncture—; riddle—; seal—; tap—; throttle—; value—; —bursts; —conveys; — expands; —transmits.

Thesaurus
Amtrak, L, Photronic cell, adjutage, amplifier, anode, attenuator, audio-frequency tube, baggage train, ballast regulator, ballast tube, barrel, base, beam-switching tube, bole, branch, cable railroad, cable railway, cask, catheter, cathode, cathode-ray tube, channel, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway, color kinescope, column, convertor, current regulator, cylinder, cylindroid, damper, detector, direct-viewing tube, discharge tube, discriminator, dissector tube, doubler, drainpipe, drum, efflux tube, el, electric, electric railway, electric train, electrode, electron-image tube, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, express, express train, feeder, feeder line, filament, fire hose, flier, flue pipe, flume, focus tube, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, funnel, garden hose, gas phototube, gas pipe, generator, goods train, gravity-operated railway, grid, horse railway, hose, hosepipe, iconoscope, image dissector, image iconoscope, interurban, inverter, junction, kinescope, light railroad, lightning express, limited, limiter, line, local, local-oscillator tube, main line, metro, milk train, mixer tube, modulator, monorail, monoscope, multiplier, multiplier phototube, multipurpose tube, multivibrator, nipple, organ pipe, oscillator, output tube, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, phase inverter, photocathode, photoconductor cell, photomultiplier tube, phototube, photovoltaic cell, picture tube, pillar, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, plate, power tube, pulse generator, put through channels, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway, radio tube, radio-frequency tube, rail, rail line, railroad, railroad train, railway, rattler, receiving tube, rectifier tube, reed, reed pipe, regulator, repeater, roadbed, roadway, roll, roller, rolling stock, rouleau, shuttle, shuttle train, siamese, siamese connection, sidetrack, siding, siphon, snorkel, soft phototube, soil pipe, special, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, tap, terminal, terminus, track, train, tram, tramline, transducer, trestle, trigatron, trigger tube, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, turnout, underground, vacuum phototube, vacuum tube, valve, waste pipe, water pipe, way train

Etymology
From tube:, from  tubus:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: tub
 * Chinese: 管
 * Chinese Characters: 管
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მილი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: σωλήνας (sōlḗnas)
 * Hungarian:
 * Greek: σωλήνας (sōlḗnas)
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian: tabung
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: rura, trubica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: tüp
 * Vietnamese:
 * Turkish: tüp
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish: tuubi, putkilo, putki
 * Galician:


 * German:
 * Italian:, (of toothpaste I.E.)


 * Finnish:
 * French: le métro londonien
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: la metropolitana di Londra
 * Polish: londyńskie metro
 * Russian: лондонское метро
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: tölkki
 * French: boîte (de bière)
 * Hungarian: (sör)


 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * bute

Noun

 * 1) pipe
 * 2) tube
 * 3)  a hit
 * 4)  Money

Etymology
From tubus:.

Anagrams

 * bute, buté

Noun
tube