tube
//tuːb//
Forms
- Plural
- tubes
- present (v1)
- tube
- past (v2)
- tubed
- past participle (v3)
- tubed
- present participle
- tubing
- 3rd person singular
- tubes
Definitions
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 semiliquid substances.
3.A tin can containing beer.(slang)
- Tinnie: a tin of beer, also called a tube.
- 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.
- 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.
4.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.)(colloquial)
- He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared.
- I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.
- The economist also observed that some of the Victoria Line's cost should be debited to existing lines, as they would benefit from the rebuilding of their interchange stations with the new tube.
1.To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
- She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
2.To ride an inner tube.
- They tubed down the Colorado River.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3015
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”), related to tuba (“long trumpet; war-trumpet”), of obscure ultimate origin, but possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there.
Doublet of tubus.