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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.
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.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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
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.
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
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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 |
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Translations
أُنْبوبأُنْبُوبأنبوبَة صابون أسْنانالقِطار التَّحْت أرْضي في لندنشُعْبَة، أنْبوب رَفيع، قَصَبَه
tubametrorouratrubicetrubka
rørtubeundergrundsbanekarmetro
putkiputkilo
cijevtuba
tubus
neîanjarîarlestpípa, rás, leiîari, göngpípa, rör, slangatúpa
チューブ管
관튜브
cilindrinistūbelėvamzdinisvamzdžiai
caurulemetrotūbiņavads
trubica
cevpodzemska železnicatubazračnica
tubtunelbana
ท่อหลอด
ống
tube
[tjuːb]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
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)
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
b. (Brit) (London Underground) → metrò m inv, metropolitana
c. the tube (Am) (fam) (television) → la tele
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
tube
(tjuːb) noun1. a long, low cylinder-shaped object through which liquid can pass; a pipe. The water flowed through a rubber tube; a glass tube.
2. an organ of this kind in animals or plants.
3. an underground railway (especially in London). I go to work on the tube / by tube; (also adjective) a tube train/station.
4. a container for a semi-liquid substance which is got out by squeezing. I must buy a tube of toothpaste.
ˈtubing noun (material for) a length or system of tubes. two metres of tubing.
ˈtubular (-bjulə) adjective1. made of, or consisting of tubes. tubular steel.
2. shaped like a tube. The container is tubular in shape.
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
, tubingn. 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
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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 nasogástricaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.