tube (t b, tyb)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. Chiefly British a. An underground railroad tunnel. b. An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England. 7. A tunnel. 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. Idiom: To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation. down the tubes/tube Slang Into a state of failure or ruin: saw her plans go down the tubes. [French, from Old French, from Latin tubus.] |
tube
Noun
1. a long hollow cylindrical object, used for the passage of fluids or as a container
2. a flexible cylinder of soft metal or plastic closed with a cap, used to hold substances such as toothpaste
3. Anat any hollow cylindrical structure: the Fallopian tubes
4. the tube Brit the underground railway system in London
5. Electronics See cathode-ray tube
6. Slang, chiefly US a television set [Latin tubus]
tubeless adj
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| Noun | 1. |  tube - conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gasesbarrel, gun barrel - a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired 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 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 envelopeacorn 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 cylinder - a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | |
| 4. |  tube - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structureanatomical 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 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'"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 |
| 2. |  tube - convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" | |
| 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 |
Translations
tube [tjuːb] n (pipe) → Rohr nt;
(container) → Tube f;
(Brit) (= underground); U-Bahn f;
(US) (inf);
tube [tjuːb] n → tubo;
(BRIT) (= underground); metropolitana;
(col) (= television): the tube → la tele
n tube [tjuːb]
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 trubka rør; -rør das Rohr σωλήνας tubo, tubería toru لوله putki tube, tuyau צִינוֹר नली cijev cső pipa pípa, rör, slanga tubo 管 (고무·유리의) 관, 튜브 vamzdelis caurule tiub buis rør, slange rur(k)a, wąż tubo tub, ţeavă труб(к)а 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 trubice kar die Röhre σωλήνας trompa juha نایژه؛ آوند tiehyt tube קָנֶה नलिका cjevasti organ cső pembuluh pípa, rás, leiðari, göng canale, tuba, tromba 管状器管 (동물의) 관 모양의 기관 takas, latakas (barības) vads saluran buis kanal, kar, rør przewód canal tub бронх; трубка trubica cev kanal rör, kanal, gång ท่อ 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 metro undergrundsbane; metro; undergrunds-; metro- die Londoner U-Bahn; U-Bahn... υπόγειος σιδηρόδρομος, μετρό metro metroo مترو maanalainen (de) métro רַכֶּבֶת תַחתִית सुरंग-रेल podzemna željeznica földalatti terowongan neðanjarðarlest metropolitana 地下鉄 지하철 metro metro kereta api bawah tanah metro tunnel-/undergrunnsbane metro metropolitano (de) metrou метро metro podzemeljska železnica podzemna železnica tunnelbana ทางใต้ดิน 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 tuba tube die Tube σωληνάριο tubo tuub تیوب tuubi tube שְפוֹפֶרֶת टयूब tuba tubus tabung túpa tubetto チューブ (짜서 쓰는) 튜브 (용기) tūbelė tūbiņa tiub tube tube tub(k)a 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
n tubing
(material for) a length or system of tubes two metres of tubing. buis, buiswerk نَفَق، أنْفاق тръбопроводи potrubí rør; slange die Röhren (pl.) σωλήνας, σωληνώσεις tubería, cañería torustik, torumaterjal لوله putket tube(s), tuyau(x) מַעֲרֶכֶת צִינוֹרוֹת ट्यूब cijevi cső(darab) pipa rörlögn tubatura, tubo 配管 배관; 관의 재료 vamzdžiai cauruļvads sistem tiub gummislang, buizen rør(stykke) rurowy tubagem ţevărie трубопровод;трубы potrubie cevni material cevovod rör, slang ท่อ boru sistemi, borular 管形材料 труби; трубопровід نلکي، ٹيوب کا سلسلہ chiều dài của ống 管形材料
adj tubular [-bjulə]
1 made of, or consisting of tubes tubular steel. silindries مَصْنوع أو مُكَوَّن من أنابيب тръбен trubkový rørformet Röhren-... σωληνοειδής tubular toru- لوله ای putki- tubulaire עַשוּי צִינוֹרוֹת नलाकार cjevast, cjevni csöves, cső- pipa gerður úr rörum; pípu- tubolare, a tubi 管状の 관으로 된[] vamzdinis cauruļu-; cauruļ- tiub tubulair rør- rury, wąż 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 trubkovitý rørformet rohrförmig σωληνωτός, κυλινδρικός tubular torukujuline لوله مانند putkimainen tubulaire בְצוּרַת צִינוֹר नलाकार cjevast csőalakú berbentuk tabung pípulaga tubolare 管状の 관 모양의 cilindrinis cauruļveida- berbentuk tiub buisvormig rørformet cylindryczny 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
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