different between tube vs cannoli

English

Etymology

From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ty??b, IPA^(key): /tju?b/
• (yod dropping) IPA^(key): /tu?b/
• Rhymes: -u?b

Noun

tube (plural tubes)

1. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
2. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

3. (Britain, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The 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.)
   1. (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
4. (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
   • 2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide [text repeated in Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]

     Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's) in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies' or ‘tubes') or bottles (‘stubbies') of 375ml each.
5. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
6. (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare with cathode ray tube and picture tube.

   Synonyms: (derogatory) boob tube, (British) telly

7. (Scotland, slang) An idiot.

Usage notes

Use for beer can was popularised in UK by a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's lager, where Paul Hogan used a phrase "crack an ice-cold tube" previously associated with Barry Humphries' character Barry McKenzie. (For discussion of this see Paul Matthew St. Pierre's book cited above.)

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:tube

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tube (third-person singular simple present tubes, present participle tubing, simple past and past participle tubed)

1. (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

2. To ride an inner tube.

3. (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.

See also

• tube on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bute, bute

Estonian

Noun

tube

1. partitive plural of tuba

French

Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyb/

Noun

tube m (plural tubes)

1. pipe
2. tube
3. (informal, music) a hit

4. (slang) money

Further reading

• “tube” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bute, buté

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ube

Noun

tube f

1. plural of tuba

Latin

Noun

tube

1. vocative singular of tubus

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin tubus.

Noun

tube m (plural tubes)

1. conduit; canal; pipe

Descendants

• ? English: tube
• French: tube

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tube, supplement)

Scots

Alternative forms

• choob

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tjub/, /t?ub/

Noun

tube (plural tubes)

1. wanker, asshole, dickhead
   • 1994, Irvine Welsh, Acid House:

     Come ahead then, ya fuckin weedjie cunts. Ah’m no exactly gaunny burst oot greetin cause some specky cunt’s five minutes late wi ma feed now, um uh? Fucking tube.

   • 2013, Donal McLaughlin, translating Pedro Lenz, Naw Much of a Talker, Freight Books 2013, p. 4:

     Sorry but Uli's just a tube [transl. Pajass] but. Ah didnae say that tae Paco, o course. Ah keep it tae masel jist.

English

Alternative forms

• cannolo (Italian singular)
• cannolu (Sicilian singular)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian cannoli, plural of cannolu, from Latin cannula (literally “a little tube”) equivalent to canna (“cane, tube”) +? -ulus (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ka?n??l?/, /k??n??l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??no?li/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /k???n??l??/
• Rhymes: -??li

Noun

cannoli (plural cannolis or cannoli)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.

Usage notes

• Those with a good knowledge of Italian may properly use cannolo in the singular and cannoli in the plural, but English speakers without this experience generally say a cannoli, some cannoli(s).

Derived terms

• cannolilike

Translations

Italian

Noun

cannoli m

1. plural of cannolo

Anagrams

• lancino

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• cannuoli

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n?n??.li?/, [k??n??n???.l??]
• Hyphenation: can?nò?li

Noun

cannoli m

1. plural of cannolu

Spanish

Alternative forms

• canoli

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cannoli, plural of cannolo (literally “little tube”), from canna (“cane, tube”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?noli/, [ka?no.li]

Noun

cannoli f (plural cannolis)

1. cannoli

Related terms

• caña
• canela