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tube
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)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (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.)
- (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
- (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
- (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.
- 2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide [text repeated in Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare with cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- Synonyms: (derogatory) boob tube, (British) telly
- (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)
- (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
- To ride an inner tube.
- (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
See also
- tube on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Bute, bute
Estonian
Noun
tube
- partitive plural of tuba
French
Etymology
From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tyb/
Noun
tube m (plural tubes)
- pipe
- tube
- (informal, music) a hit
- (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
- plural of tuba
Latin
Noun
tube
- vocative singular of tubus
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin tubus.
Noun
tube m (plural tubes)
- conduit; canal; pipe
Descendants
- ? English: tube
- French: tube
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tube, supplement)
Scots
Alternative forms
- choob
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tjub/, /t?ub/
Noun
tube (plural tubes)
- 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.
- 1994, Irvine Welsh, Acid House:
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conveyor
English
Alternative forms
- conveyour (obsolete)
- conveyer (rare)
Etymology
convey +? -or.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?ve??/
- (US) enPR: k?nv???r, IPA(key): /k?n?ve??/
Noun
conveyor (plural conveyors)
- A person that conveys, transports or delivers.
- Anything that conveys, transports or delivers.
- Words are a conveyor of meaning.
- A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.
Derived terms
- conveyor belt
Translations
conveyor From the web:
- what conveyor belt
- what conveyor belt means
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- what conveyor belt is used for
- what conveyor systems do
- what's conveyor oven
- what conveyor chain
- what's conveyor sushi
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