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tube
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Meanings
noun
  • a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases.
    E.g. a plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled
  • a thing in the form of or resembling a tube.
  • the underground railway system in London.
    E.g. a cross-London trek on the Tube
  • a sealed container, typically of glass and either evacuated or filled with gas, containing two electrodes between which an electric current can be made to flow.
verb
  • fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.
  • convey in a tube.
    E.g. the wells were flooded, and this water, tubed off, yielded a supply of 38,000 gallons per hour
  • travel on the underground railway system in London.
    E.g. I tubed to St Pancras
  • ride on water on a large inflated inner tube.
    E.g. we tubed down creeks, slid down water cascades, and fished in canyons

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