tube

tube

 (to͞ob, tyo͞ob)

n.

1.

a. A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.

b. An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct: a bronchial tube.

2. A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.

3. Music The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.

4. Electronics

a. An electron tube.

b. A vacuum tube.

5. Botany The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.

6.

a. A tunnel.

b. An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.

7. The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.

8.

a. An inner tube.

b. An inflatable tube or cushion made of rubber or plastic and used for recreational riding, as behind a motor boat or down a snow-covered slope.

9. Informal

a. Television: What's on the tube?

b. A television set.

10. tubes Informal The fallopian tubes.

v. tubed, tub·ing, tubes

v.tr.

1. To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.

2. To place in or enclose in a tube.

v.intr.

To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.

Idiom:

down the tubes/tube Slang

Into a state of failure or ruin: saw her plans go down the tubes.

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[French, from Old French, from Latin tubus.]

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tube

(tjuːb)

n

1. a long hollow and typically cylindrical object, used for the passage of fluids or as a container

2. a collapsible cylindrical container of soft metal or plastic closed with a cap, used to hold viscous liquids or pastes

3. (Anatomy) anatomy

a. short for Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube

b. any hollow cylindrical structure

4. (Botany) botany

a. the lower part of a gamopetalous corolla or gamosepalous calyx, below the lobes

b. any other hollow structure in a plant

5. (Railways) the tube

a. Also called: the underground an underground railway system. US and Canadian equivalent: subway

b. the tunnels through which the railway runs

c. the train itself

d. (capital) trademark the London underground railway system

6. (Electronics) electronics

a. another name for valve³

b. See electron tube, cathode-ray tube, television tube

7. (Broadcasting) the tube slang a television set

8. slang Brit a stupid or despicable person

9. slang Austral a bottle or can of beer

10. (Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) surfing the cylindrical passage formed when a wave breaks and the crest tips forward

11. an archaic word for telescope

vb (tr)

12. to fit or supply with a tube or tubes

13. to carry or convey in a tube

14. to shape like a tube

[C17: from Latin tubus]

ˈtubeless adj

ˈtube-like adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

tube

(tub, tyub)

n., v. tubed, tub•ing. n.

1. a hollow, usu. cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, etc., used esp. for conveying or containing liquids or gases.

2. a small collapsible cylinder of metal or plastic sealed at one end and having a capped opening at the other from which a semifluid substance, as paint or toothpaste, may be squeezed.

3. any hollow, cylindrical vessel or organ: the bronchial tubes.

4. the elongated lower part of a united sepal or corolla of a flower.

5. inner tube.

6. electron tube.

7. the tube, Informal. television.

8. a cylindrical garment without sleeves, pockets, or closures, usu. of stretch fabric, worn as a blouse, dress, skirt, etc.

9. the tubular tunnel in which an underground railroad runs.

10. the railroad itself.

11. Brit. subway (def. 1).

12. Surfing. the curled hollow formed on the underside of a cresting wave.

v.t.

13. to furnish with a tube.

14. to convey or enclose in a tube.

15. to form into the shape of a tube; make tubular.

v.i.

16. to float down a river on an inner tube.

Idioms:

down the tube(s), into a wasted or abandoned state.

[1590–1600; < Latin tubus pipe]

tube′like`, adj.

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

tube

• canyon - Gets its name from Spanish canon, "tube."
• catheter - A tube inserted for withdrawing bodily fluids, it comes from Greek kathienai, "send or let down."
• fuse - Comes from Italian fuso, "spindle," from Latin fusus, "spindle," as it originally referred to the casing or tube filled with combustible matter.
• piping - Icing applied from a tube with a nozzle.

Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

tube

Past participle: tubed
Gerund: tubing

Imperative

tube

tube

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tube - conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases tubing barrel, gun barrel - a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired blowgun, blowpipe, blowtube, blow tube - a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing blow tube, blowpipe, blowtube - a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat cannula - a small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing - a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action catheter - a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open cigarette holder - a tube that holds a cigarette while it is being smoked coil - tubing that is wound in a spiral chromatography column, column - a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands conduit - a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits" drain - tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material hosepipe, hose - a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas inner tube - an inflatable rubber tube that fits inside the casing of a pneumatic tire mouthpiece - the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth pea shooter - a straight narrow tube through which pellets (as dried peas) can be blown at a target pipage, pipe, piping - a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. pipe, tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco silencer - short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing siphon, syphon - a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube speaking tube - a tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another stem - the tube of a tobacco pipe stent - a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis drinking straw, straw - a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth test tube - glass tube closed at one end torpedo tube - a tube near the waterline of a vessel through which a torpedo is fired venturi - a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) well point, wellpoint - a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area
	2.	tube - electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube acorn tube - a small vacuum tube; used at high frequencies anode - a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device cathode - a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit - an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow diode, rectifying tube, rectifying valve - a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier electrode - a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit electronic device - a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically electron multiplier - a vacuum tube that amplifies a flow of electrons gas-discharge tube - a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas control grid, grid - an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube klystron - an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation magnetron - a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators pentode - a thermionic tube having five electrodes plate - the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube television pickup tube, television-camera tube - a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals tetrode - a thermionic tube having four electrodes triode - a thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes; fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible X-ray tube - a vacuum tube containing a metal target onto which a beam of electrons is directed at high energy for the generation of X rays
	3.	tube - a hollow cylindrical shape     pipe cylinder - a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
	4.	tube - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure tube-shaped structure anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" tubule - a small tube salpinx - a tube in the uterus or the ear cochlea - the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti vas, vessel - a tube in which a body fluid circulates anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
	5.	tube - an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'" metro, subway, subway system, underground railroad, railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system - line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
Verb	1.	tube - provide with a tube or insert a tube into furnish, provide, supply, render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
	2.	tube - convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" bring, convey, take - take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"
	3.	tube - ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day" ride - be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day"
	4.	tube - place or enclose in a tube     enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap - enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house"

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Translations

أُنْبوبأُنْبُوبأنبوبَة صابون أسْنانالقِطار التَّحْت أرْضي في لندنشُعْبَة، أنْبوب رَفيع، قَصَبَه

tubametrorouratrubicetrubka

rørtubeundergrundsbanekarmetro

RohrTubeTubusU-Bahnverrohren

σωληνάριοσωλήναςλυχνίαμετρό

tubometrotrompacañónferrocarril subterráneo

putkiputkilo

tubemétro

cijevtuba

tubus

neîanjarîarlestpípa, rás, leiîari, göngpípa, rör, slangatúpa

tubettotubometropolitanatubatubo catodico

チューブ管

관튜브

cilindrinistūbelėvamzdinisvamzdžiai

caurulemetrotūbiņavads

buisjetube

tubetunnelbanerør

ruratubka

tubo

трубатрубкатюбик

trubica

cevpodzemska železnicatubazračnica

tubtunelbana

ท่อหลอด

tüpborumetrotünel

ống

管管子软管动物体内的管地下铁道

tube

[tjuːb]

A. N

1. [of toothpaste, paint etc] → tubo m (Anat) → trompa f; [of tyre] → cámara f de aire; [of television] → tubo m (US) [of radio] → lámpara f
to go down the tube it's all gone down the tube → todo se ha perdido

2. the tube (US) (= television) → la tele

3. (= London underground) → metro m
to go by tube → ir en el metro
to travel by tube → viajar en metro

B. CPD tube station N (Brit) → estación f de metro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tube

[ˈtjuːb]

n

(= long, hollow pipe) → tube m; (medical) → sonde f

(= container) [toothpaste, moisturizer, glue] → tube m

(British) the tube (= underground) → le métro
by tube → en métro

[tyre] → chambre f à air

(US) the tube (= television) → la télé
on the tube → à la télé

modif (British) [line, strike] → de métro; [network] → du métro

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

tube

n

(= pipe) → Rohr nt; (of rubber, plastic) → Schlauch m; (= speaking tube) → Sprachrohr nt; (= torpedo tube) → (Torpedo)rohr nt; to go down the tubes (fig inf) → den Bach runtergehen (inf)

(= container, of toothpaste, paint, glue) → Tube f; (of sweets) → Röhrchen nt, → Rolle f

(Brit: = London underground) → U-Bahn f; to travel by tube → mit der U-Bahn fahren

(Elec, TV, US Rad) → Röhre f; the tube (US inf) → die Glotze (inf)

(Anat) → Röhre f; (= Fallopian tube) → Eileiter m; the bronchial tubes → die Bronchien pl

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tube

[tjuːb]

1. n

a. (pipe) → tubo; (of toothpaste, paint) → tubetto (Anat) → tuba; (for tyre) → camera d'aria

b. (Brit) (London Underground) → metrò m inv, metropolitana

c. the tube (Am) (fam) (television) → la tele

2. adj (Brit) → del metrò
tube station → stazione f del metrò

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

tube

(tjuːb) noun

1. a long, low cylinder-shaped object through which liquid can pass; a pipe. The water flowed through a rubber tube; a glass tube. buis أُنْبوب тръба tubo trubka das Rohr rør; -rør σωλήναςtubo, tubería toru لوله putki tube, tuyauצינור नली cijev cső pipa pípa, rör, slanga tubo 管 관 vamzdelis caurule tiub buisrør, slangerura, wąż لوله ، ټیوب tubo tub, ţeavă труба trúbka, rúra, potrubie cev cev rör, slang ท่อ tüp, boru 管 труба, трубка ٹيوب، نلکي ống 管

2. an organ of this kind in animals or plants. buis شُعْبَة، أنْبوب رَفيع، قَصَبَه път canal trubice die Röhre kar σωλήναςtrompa juha نایژه؛ آوند putki tubeקנה नलिका cjevasti organ cső pembuluh pípa, rás, leiðari, göng canale, tuba, tromba 管状器管 (해부, 동물, 식물의) 관 takas, latakas (barības) vads saluran buiskanal, kar, rørprzewód د حيواناتو يا نباتاتو د پاره يو ځاي canal tub бронх; трубка trubica cev kanal rör, kanal, gång หลอดลม; ท่อลำเลียงอาหารของพืช boru (動物體內的)管(如支氣管等) труба نلکي ống, vòi （动物体内的）管（如支气管等）

3. an underground railway (especially in London). I go to work on the tube / by tube; (also adjective) a tube train/station. moltrein القِطار التَّحْت أرْضي في لندن метро metropolitano metro die Londoner U-Bahn; U-Bahn... undergrundsbane; metro; undergrunds-; metro- υπόγειος σιδηρόδρομος, μετρόmetro metroo مترو metro métro רַכֶּבֶת תַחתִית सुरंग-रेल podzemna željeznica földalatti terowongan neðanjarðarlest metropolitana 地下鉄 지하철의 터널 metro metro kereta api bawah tanah metro tunnel-/undergrunnsbane metro مټرو metropolitano (de) metrou метро metro podzemeljska železnica podzemna železnica tunnelbana รถไฟใต้ดิน metro, tünel 地下鐵道 метрополітен زير زمين ريلوے xe điện ngầm 地下铁道

4. a container for a semi-liquid substance which is got out by squeezing. I must buy a tube of toothpaste. buisie أنبوبَة صابون أسْنان туба bisnaga tuba die Tube tube σωληνάριοtubo tuub تیوب tuubi tubeשפופרת टयूब tuba tubus tabung túpa tubetto チューブ 튜브 용기 tūbelė tūbiņa tiub tubetubetuba ټیوب bisnaga tub тюбик tuba tuba tuba tub หลอด tüp (裝牙膏等的)軟管 тюбик رقيق مادہ جمع کرنے کا ڈبہ tuýp thuốc （装牙膏等的）软管

ˈtubing noun

(material for) a length or system of tubes. two metres of tubing. buis, buiswerk نَفَق، أنْفاق тръбопроводи tubagem potrubí die Röhren (pl.) rør; slange σωλήνας, σωληνώσειςtubería, cañería torustik, torumaterjal لوله putki tube, tuyau מַעֲרֶכֶת צִינוֹרוֹת ट्यूब cijevi cső(darab) pipa rörlögn tubatura, tubo 配管 배관 vamzdžiai cauruļvads sistem tiub gummislang, buizenrør rurowy لوله tubagem ţevărie трубопровод; трубы potrubie cevni material cevovod rör, slang ความยาว หรือระบบของท่อ boru sistemi, borular 管形材料 труби; трубопровід نلکي، ٹيوب کا سلسلہ chiều dài của ống 管形材料

ˈtubular (-bjulə) adjective

1. made of, or consisting of tubes. tubular steel. silindries مَصْنوع أو مُكَوَّن من أنابيب тръбен tubular trubkový Röhren-... rørformet σωληνοειδήςtubular toru- لوله ای putkimainen tubulaire עַשוּי צִינוֹרוֹת नलाकार cjevast, cjevni csöves, cső- pipa gerður úr rörum; pípu- tubolare, a tubi 管状の 관들로 된 vamzdinis cauruļu-; cauruļ- tiub tubulair rør- rury, wąż لوله ای tubular tubular трубчатый trúbkový ceven cevast rör-, tub- ทำด้วยท่อ borulardan yapılmış 由管構成的，管狀的 трубчастий نلکي کا بنا ہوا làm bằng chi tiết có hình ống 由管构成的，管状的

2. shaped like a tube. The container is tubular in shape. silindries أُنْبوبي الشَّكْل тръбообразен tubular trubkovitý rohrförmig rørformet σωληνωτός, κυλινδρικόςtubular torukujuline لوله مانند putkimainen tubulaire בְצוּרַת צִינוֹר नलाकार cjevast csőalakú berbentuk tabung pípulaga tubolare 管状の 관 모양의 cilindrinis cauruļveida- berbentuk tiub buisvormigrørformet cylindryczny د لولی په ډول tubular cilindric трубчатый trúbkovitý cevast cevast rör-, tubformig ที่มีลักษณะคล้ายหลอดหรือท่อ boru şeklinde 管形的 циліндричний; дудчастий نلکي کي شکل کا có hình ống 管形的

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

tube

→ أُنْبُوب roura, tuba rør, tube Rohr, Tube σωληνάριο, σωλήνας tubo putki, putkilo tube cijev, tuba metropolitana, tubetto チューブ, 管 관, 튜브 buisje, tube rør, tube rura, tubka tubo труба, тюбик tub, tunelbana ท่อ, หลอด tüp ống 管, 管子

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

tube

, tubing

n. tubo, conducto, trompa;

drainage ___ → ___ de drenaje;

endotracheal ___ → ___ endotraqueal;

inhalation ___ → ___ de inhalación;

intestinal decompression ___ → sonda intestinal;

nasogastric ___ → ___ nasogástrico;

tracheotomy ___ → ___ de traqueotomía;

thoracostomy ___ → ___ de toracostomía.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

Tube	→ قِطارُ الَأنْفاقِ   → Metro   → U-Bahn   → Μετρό   → El metro     → Le métro   → Podzemna željeznica   → Metropolitana   → 地下鉄   → 지하철   → Metro   → T-bane   → Metro   → Metrô   → Metropolitano   → Метро   → Tunnelbana   → รถไฟใต้ดิน   → Metro   → Tàu điện ngầm   → 地铁

Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

tube

n tubo, sonda, trompa, manguera; chest — tubo torácico or de tórax; drainage — tubo de drenaje; endotracheal — tubo endotraqueal; Eustachian — trompa de Eustaquio; fallopian — trompa uterina, trompa de Falopio (ant); feeding — sonda de alimentación; gastrostomy —, G-tube (fam) sonda de gastrostomía; nasogastric — sonda nasogástrica

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