tube
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noun- 1.
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- 2.
An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
A tube of toothpaste.
- 3.
(British, capitalized, colloquial, often)(British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) 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.)
I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.
He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared.
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(Australia, slang)A tin can containing beer.
Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's) in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies' or ‘tubes') or bottles (‘stubbies') of 375ml each.
- 5.
(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- 6.
(Canada, US, colloquial)A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
Đồng nghĩa: boob tube, telly
- 7.
(Scotland, slang)An idiot.
- 8.
(abbreviation, alt of)Short for speaking tube.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
- 2.
(transitive)To ride an inner tube.
They tubed down the Colorado River.
- 3.
(colloquial, transitive)(medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
The patient was tubed.
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From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (tube, pipe), related to tuba (long trumpet; war-trumpet), of obscure ultimate origin, but possibly connected to tībia (shinbone, reed-pipe); see there. tubus.