Definitionen
1.NounAnything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
2.NounAn approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances."A tube of toothpaste."
3.NounThe 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.; He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared."
4.NounOne of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
5.NounA tin can containing beer.
6.NounA wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
7.NounA television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
8.NounAn idiot.
9.NounShort for speaking tube.
10.VerbTo supply with, or enclose in, a tube."She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory."
11.VerbTo ride an inner tube."They tubed down the Colorado River."
12.VerbTo intubate."The patient was tubed."