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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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sewer
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaqu?ria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aqu?ria (“of or pertaining to waters”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so?o'?, IPA(key): /?s(j)u??/
- (General American) enPR: so?o?r, IPA(key): /?su?/
- Homophone: suer
- Rhymes: -u??(?)
- Hyphenation: sew?er
Noun
sewer (plural sewers)
- A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
Translations
Verb
sewer (third-person singular simple present sewers, present participle sewering, simple past and past participle sewered)
- (transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
Etymology 2
From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assid?re, present active participle of asside? (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sede? (“sit”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so?o'?, IPA(key): /?s(j)u??/
- (General American) enPR: so?o?r, IPA(key): /?su?/
- Hyphenation: sew?er
Noun
sewer (plural sewers)
- (now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 287:
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
Etymology 3
sew +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?'?, IPA(key): /?s???/
- (US) enPR: s?'?r, IPA(key): /?so??/
- Homophone: sower
- Rhymes: -???(r)
- Hyphenation: sew?er
Noun
sewer (plural sewers)
- One who sews.
- A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
Synonyms
- (one who sews): sempster/sempstress (man/woman), seamster/seamstress (man/woman), tailor
Translations
Anagrams
- Ewers, Weser, ewers, re-sew, resew, sweer, weres
Middle English
Verb
sewer
- Alternative form of suren
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