Tube Definition
to͝ob, tyo͝ob
tubed, tubes, tubing
noun
tubes
A cylindrical container made of thin, pliable metal, plastic, etc., fitted at one end with a screw cap, and used for holding pastes or semiliquids, which can be squeezed out.
Webster's New World
The lower, united part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.
Webster's New World
An instrument, part, organ, etc. resembling a tube.
Bronchial tubes, eustachian tubes.
Webster's New World
The tubular space bounded by the lines of electric or magnetic force passing through every point on a closed curve on the outside of a charged body.
Webster's New World
The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- pipe
- tube-shaped structure
- electron tube
- vacuum tube
- thermionic tube
- thermionic vacuum tube
- thermionic-valve
- tubing
- subway
- metro
- subway system
- underground
- pipeline
- chute
- cannula
pronoun
(informal) The London Underground.
Wiktionary
verb
tubed, tubes, tubing
To provide with, place in, or pass through a tube or tubes.
Webster's New World
To place in or enclose in a tube.
American Heritage
To make tubular.
Webster's New World
To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.
American Heritage
idiom
down the tubes
- Into a state of failure or ruin:
saw her plans go down the tubes.
American Heritage
down the tube
- in or into a condition of failure, defeat, etc.
Webster's New World
the tube
- television
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Tube
- down the tubes
- down the tube
- the tube
Origin of Tube
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From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe").
From Wiktionary
French from Old French from Latin tubus
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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