tube
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
Noun 4 meanings
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
“A tube of toothpaste.”
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.”
A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
Verb 3 meanings
To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
“She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.”
To ride an inner tube.
“They tubed down the Colorado River.”
To intubate.
“The patient was tubed.”
Etymology
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. Doublet of tubus.
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TUBE at a glance
TUBE has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (T 1 + U 1 + B 3 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,840 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with tube
All rhymes- CUBE8
- LUBE6
- RUBE6
- NANOTUBE10
- PUBE8
- HYPERCUBE21
- JUJUBE22
- TAUBE7
- DAUBE8
- PICKELHAUBE24
- JUBE13
- BUCKYTUBE22
One letter away
- TUNE4
- CUBE8
- LUBE6
- TUBS6
- TUBA6
- RUBE6
- TULE4
- PUBE8
- JUBE13
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