tube

Phonetic

US /tuːb/UK /tjuːb/

Translations

NOUNAnything 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., 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.), 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.) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground., A tin can containing beer., A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside., A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube., An idiot.

VERBTo ride an inner tube., To supply with, or enclose in, a tube., To intubate.

PROPNThe London Underground

Variants

tubes: Third Person Singular, Plural
tubing: Present Participle
tubed: Past Participle, Past Tense

Examples

A length/leŋkθ/ of blue tube and a pull string/strɪŋ/ quietly/ˈkwaɪətli/ outlast/ˌaʊtˈlɑːst/ all of it, waiting on a cable/ˈkeɪbl/ that hasn't shipped yet.
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described a permanently sealed, high-vacuum cathode ray tube with a thermionic emitter in 1931
Source:en.wikipedia.org
Because I'm in a ranch, that single tube reaches the whole main floor.
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(Confusingly, the names are borrowed from Grand Canyon National Park and do not reflect the geography or the scale of the Martian specimens; the red planet’s Cheyava Falls is two feet across, and its Sapphire Canyon could fit in a tube of lipstick.)
Source:www.newyorker.com
If cells had genetic instructions telling them to assemble into a tube, we would expect bigger cells to make a proportionately bigger tube
Source:www.scientificamerican.com

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