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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

• conductour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?d?kt?/

Noun

conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress or conductrix)

1. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
2. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
3. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers

4. (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
5. (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
   • 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory

     If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.

6. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
7. (architecture) A leader.

Antonyms

• non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)

Derived terms

• conductor rail
• lightning conductor

Related terms

• conduct
• semiconductor, dielectric

Translations

See also

• ticket inspector

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conductor, conduct?rem (“contractor, employer”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kon.duk?to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.duk?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.duk?to?/

Adjective

conductor (feminine conductora, masculine plural conductors, feminine plural conductores)

1. driving
2. conducting

Noun

conductor m (plural conductors)

1. driver
2. (physics) conductor

Related terms

• conduir

Latin

Etymology

From cond?c? (“I lead”) +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d??kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d?ukt??r]

Noun

conductor m (genitive conduct?ris, feminine conductr?x); third declension

1. employer, entrepreneur
2. contractor
3. (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• conductor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conductor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conductor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• conductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

1. Obsolete form of condutor.

Romanian

Etymology

From French conducteur, from Latin conductor.

Noun

conductor n (plural conductori)

1. conductor
2. driver

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductorem (“contractor, employer”). Cognate with English conductor.

Noun

conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

1. driver, motorist
2. conductor (transmitter of electricity, heat, light or sound)
3. (Argentina, Uruguay) presenter; host (of television show)

Derived terms

Related terms

• conducir

See also

• chófer