different between tube vs tute

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

Etymology 1

Clipping of tutorial

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: toot (in dialects with yod-dropping)

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of tutorial.
   • 1991 Hazel Holt, A lot to ask: a life of Barbara Pym, Dutton, p29

     Tute [tutorial] in the morning. Morrison couldn't think of much to say to us.'

   • 2002 Michael Singh, Worlds of learning: globalisation and multicultural education, Common Ground, p35

     The highlight of my day was at the end of the tute when the two Asian students came up to me and thanked me for letting them read.

   • 2009 Janet Giltrow & Dieter Stein, Genres in the Internet: issues in the theory of genre, John Benjamins Publishing Company, p127

     Many online genres - like the homless blog, the electronic petition, the review, and the "tute" [...] are often public

Etymology 2

Clipping of institute

Alternative forms

• 'tute (institute)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: toot (in dialects with yod-dropping)

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of institute.

Etymology 3

From Spanish tute, previously from Italian tutti.

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

1. A trick-taking card game, originally from Italy

Anagrams

• et tu

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tute/
• Hyphenation: tu?te
• Rhymes: -ute
• Audio:

Adverb

tute

1. entirely; wholly; utterly; completely; totally

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.te/
• Hyphenation: tu?te

Noun

tute f

1. plural of tuta

Latin

Etymology 1

From t? +? te.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.te/, [?t?u?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.te/, [?t?u?t??]

Pronoun

t?te

1. you yourself

Derived terms

• t?temet

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.te?/, [?t?u?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.te/, [?t?u?t??]

Adverb

t?t? (comparative t?tius, superlative t?tissim?)

1. safely, securely, in safety, without danger

See also

• tueor

References

• tute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tute in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tu.t?]
• Hyphenation: tu?te

Verb

tute

1. (transitive) to hit

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

tute (imperative tut, present tense tuter, simple past and past participle tuta or tutet, present participle tutende)

1. to toot, hoot, honk, howl, blow (e.g. a horn)

Related terms

• tut (noun)

References

• “tute” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tute/, [?t?u.t?e]

Noun

tute m (plural tutes)

1. (card games) tute (card game)
2. (card games) A trick-taking play in the same game, combining four kings or four knights
3. (informal) strife

Tocharian B

Etymology

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Adjective

tute

1. yellow

Venetian

Adjective

tute

1. feminine plural of tuto

West Flemish

Etymology

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Noun

tute f (plural tuutn, diminutive tuutje)

1. dummy, pacifier

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• tut?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tu?t?]
• Hyphenation: tu?te

Noun

tute f

1. female equivalent of tut