Definitions of TUBE [tub, tyub]

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Definition of 'TUBE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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

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

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

5.  tube
television.

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

7.  tube
the tubular tunnel in which an underground railroad runs.

8.  tube
the railroad itself.

9.  tube
Brit.

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

11. (v.t.) tube
to furnish with a tube.

12.  tube
to convey or enclose in a tube.

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

14. (v.i.) tube
to float down a river on an inner tube.

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

Etymology: (1590–1600; < L tubus pipe)

Definition of 'TUBE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tube, tubing
conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

2. (noun) tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve
electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

3. (noun) pipe, tube
a hollow cylindrical shape

4. (noun) tube, tube-shaped structure
(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

5. (verb) metro, tube, underground, subway system, subway
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'"

6. (verb) tube
provide with a tube or insert a tube into

7. (verb) tube
convey in a tube
"inside Paris, they used to tube mail"

8. (verb) tube
ride or float on an inflated tube
"We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"

9. (verb) tube
place or enclose in a tube

Definition of 'TUBE'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) tube
a long, circular, hollow object through which liquid or gas moves
the tubes leading from his nose to the oxygen tank

2.  tube
sth shaped like a tube
the tube inside the toilet paper

3.  tube
a long container that you squeeze to push out what is inside
a tube of toothpaste

4.  tube
a part inside the body that functions like a tube
the tubes leading from the kidney to the bladder

Definition of 'TUBE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) TUBE
a hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe

2. (noun) TUBE
a telescope

3. (noun) TUBE
a vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance

4. (noun) TUBE
the narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla

5. (noun) TUBE
a priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction

6. (noun) TUBE
a small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through

7. (noun) TUBE
a more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm

8. (noun) TUBE
one of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk

9. (verb) TUBE
to furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well

Definitions of 'TUBE'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. TUBE
1. n. A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Looney Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, Babylon 5, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie.

2. [IBM] To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. “Tube me that note?”

Translation of 'TUBE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a long, low cylinder-shaped object through which liquid can pass; a pipe The water flowed through a rubber tube; a glass tube.
Afrikaans: buis	Arabic: أُنْبوب	Bulgarian: тръба
Brazilian: tubo	Czech: trubka	German: das Rohr
Danish: rør; -rør	Greek: σωλήνας	Spanish: tubo, tubería
Estonian: toru	Farsi: لوله	Finnish: putki
French: tube, tuyau	Hebrew: צִינוֹר	Hindi: नली
Croatian: cijev	Hungarian: cső	Indonesian: pipa
Icelandic: pípa, rör, slanga	Italian: tubo	Japanese: 管
Korean: 관	Lithuanian: vamzdelis	Latvian: caurule
Malay: tiub	Dutch: buis	Norwegian: rør, slange
Polish: rur(k)a, wąż	Persian: لوله	Pashto: لوله ، ټیوب
Portuguese: tubo	Romanian: tub,ţeavă	Russian: труб(к)а
Slovak: trúbka, rúra, potrubie	Slovenian: cev	Serbian: cev
Swedish: rör, slang	Thai: ท่อ	Turkish: tüp, boru
Taiwanese: 管	Ukrainian: труба, трубка	Urdu: ٹيوب، نلکي
Vietnamese: ống	Chinese: 管
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