| 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 |
| a. Eustachian tube short for Fallopian tube | |
| b. any hollow cylindrical structure | |
| 4. | botany |
| a. the lower part of a gamopetalous corolla or gamosepalous calyx, below the lobes | |
| b. any other hollow structure in a plant | |
| 5. | (Brit) the tube |
| a. Also called: the underground, US and Canadian equivalent: subway an underground railway system | |
| b. the tunnels through which the railway runs | |
| c. the train itself | |
| d. (capital) trademark the London underground railway system | |
| 6. | electronics |
| a. another name for valve | |
| b. electron tube cathode-ray tube See television tube | |
| 7. | slang the tube a television set |
| 8. | slang (Brit) a stupid or despicable person |
| 9. | slang (Austral) a bottle or can of beer |
| 10. | surfing the cylindrical passage formed when a wave breaks and the crest tips forward |
| 11. | an archaic word for telescope |
| —vb | |
| 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] | |
| 'tubeless | |
| —adj | |
| 'tube-like | |
| —adj | |
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |