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tube English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word tube once they have reached the level B1 – Lower Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning tube meaning

What does tube mean?

Definitions in simple English

tube Noun

— A tube is a long object with a hole from one end to the other. The ends may be closed or open. The high pressure forces the water through the tube. Toothpaste comes in a tube.

— The Tube is the underground train system in London, England.

tube Verb

— If you tube, you float on an inner tube. We went white-water tubing on the Yukon River.

tube

— noun conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

— noun electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

— noun (= pipe) a hollow cylindrical shape

— noun (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

— verb place or enclose in a tube

— verb ride or float on an inflated tube We tubed down the river on a hot summer day

— verb provide with a tube or insert a tube into

— verb convey in a tube inside Paris, they used to tube mail

— noun (= metro, underground, subway system, subway) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) in Paris the subway system is called the 'metro' and in London it is called the 'tube' or the 'underground'

Synonyms tube synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as tube?

tube English » English

pipe

subway

duct

barrel

underground

cylinder

valve

tubing

metro

channel

conduit

vacuum tube

hose

canal

tube-shaped structure

the underground

subway system

pipeline

hollow cylinder

electron tube

vessel

tunnel

tubular

thermionic valve

thermionic vacuum tube

thermionic tube

the T

stem

salpinx

rod

radio tube

nozzle

inner tube

hole

ductus

drain

container

cavity

El

whip

walkway

ulterior

tubule

tubularity

tobacco pipe

thoroughfare

test tube

tendon

telly

television

Topics tube topics

What do people use tube to talk about?

States Quality Shape

Round

• What words refer to something that is long and round?
  cylinder cylindrical rod pipe tube

Person Body Head

Ear

• What are the parts of the ear?
  earlobe lobe inner ear eardrum tympanum Eustachian tube auditory nerve canal cochlea

Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with chemicals

• What tools are used to work with chemicals?
  test tube beaker Bunsen burner periodic table formula catalyst

Examples tube examples

How do I use tube in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If you leave them lying on the desk they may roll off, so stand them in the test-tube rack.

The tube was shattered by the explosion.

He squeezed the toothpaste out of a tube.

Please buy a tube of toothpaste.

We still have an old tube television.

Where's the nearest tube station?

You can't put toothpaste back in the tube.

How many liters of water did you use to dilute the acid in the test tube?

Tom rolled up the poster and put it into a cardboard tube.

The vagina is a muscular tube.

While most ectopic pregnancies occur in the Fallopian tube, it is also possible for them to occur in the ovaries, abdomen, or cervix.

Tom is watching the boob tube.

Get me a tube of toothpaste while you're at the store.

The nurse gave the patient his orange juice through a glass tube.

Movie subtitles

One of the dominant organisms was what we call a tube worm and these were 6, 8 feet tall, and they had human-like blood.

And when they wanted to respirate, they would stick out the tube, basically their lung.

OK, so better iv access first, tube second, ABGs third.

Tube.

It's closing off the airway. Can we get the tube in?

I'm going to try and tube her again at the end of this cycle.

What's the smallest tube you've got there?

OK, tube in! Get in!

Must be the tube. Yeah.

Facial oedema's pulling out the bloody tube!

Is it a see-through breathing tube? Is it a straw?

Hey here a tube of preparation, Salvodont.

We take the tube, you take the lid.

Well, come out of the test tube, men.

From his air intake tube?

Through a tube?

Tube murder mystery! Paper!

Place it in this tube.

It was sealed in this tube and vacuum.

Sure enough of myself to know the blood in this tube. contains cobra venom extract.

Quite a coincidence that this tube of yours. should also contain cobra venom.

You're lookin' at me like I was in a test tube.

You got the radio tube for him, from this Consul.

But, scholar, if we gain China. gain its strength and wisdom- They have an iron tube there that shoots fire.

It didn't land on the pavement, so only one tube was smashed.

Probably a rectifier or a tube.

Pop, you were right when you blew the power tube. I have one here.

A catherimine tube with an endiom complex of plus four.

I couldn't get the inner tube off my neck, sir.

I took the tube.

As if I belong in a test tube.

What is the tube used for?

The tube is stuck into the ground.

Inside the tube a chisel hammers the earth loose.

Afterwards a pump is lead into the tube and the loose earth is sucked up.

Tube all ready?

Up Bond Street, down Bruton Street, ditched the car on Adam's Row, then back to Hounslow by tube.

To continue my assault, I took the same tube as her.

But they got him off of that tube, right?

You can now send them via air tube.

A man's after her with a gun. She's trying to escape along the tube going that way.

News and current affairs

So, for the past three months, Golubchuk has had a tube down his throat to help him breathe and another in his stomach to feed him.

Granted, the differences between any two Muscovites' experiences are greater than the differences between the experiences of any two bacteria in a test tube culture.

Ten years ago, you were lucky to find the phone number and address of the manufacturer on a tube of toothpaste.

Many Germans today rightly feel that any system of fiscal transfers will morph into a permanent feeding tube, much the way that northern Italy has been propping up southern Italy for the last century.

He was attached to respirator and to another machine to clear wastes from his body, and was fed through a stomach tube.

Granted, the differences between any two Muscovites' experiences are greater than the differences between the experiences of any two bacteria in a test tube culture. But that is just the point.

There is a better model, one developed in a linguistically, culturally, and religiously diverse test-tube in the geographic heart of Europe: the Swiss model of Konkordanzdemokratie.

Once again, scientists had, in effect, created life in a test tube.