tube

Meaning of tube

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. (often capitalized as Tube) 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.
  4. A tin can containing beer.
  5. A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
  6. A television.
    Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?
  7. An idiot.
verb
  1. To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
    She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
  2. To ride an inner tube.
    They tubed down the Colorado River.
  3. To intubate.
    The patient was tubed.

Information about tube

Hyphenation of tube

tube

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • tube is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

tube synonyms

Meaning tubing:

tubing

Meaning pipe:

pipe

Meaning metro:

metro, underground, subway

Meaning :

telly

Translation of tube

Anagrams of tube

Bute, bute, Tebu

Words that rhyme with tube

retube, teletube, flashtube, Combitube, demitube, multitube, intube, myotube, nanotube, phototube, uptube, bierstube, stube, YouTube, blowtube, drawtube, buckytube

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