tube
noun
[ tjuːb ]
• a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases.
• "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.
• "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.
tube
verb
• fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.
• convey in a tube.
• "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.
• "I tubed to St Pancras"
• ride on water on a large inflated inner tube.
• "we tubed down creeks, slid down water cascades, and fished in canyons"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from French tube or Latin tubus .
