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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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vessel
English
Alternative forms
- vessell (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English vessel, vessell, from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau), from Latin v?scellum, diminutive of v?sculum, diminutive of v?s (“vessel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?s.?l/, /?v?s.l?/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Noun
vessel (plural vessels)
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat. [From c.1300]
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space. [From 1915]
- (uncountable, obsolete or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals. [c.1300–c.1600]
- 1523, John Bourchier, tr. Jean Froissart, Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart : of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flauders: and other places adioynynge.:
- All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.
- 1523, John Bourchier, tr. Jean Froissart, Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart : of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flauders: and other places adioynynge.:
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher. [From c.1300]
- A person as a container of qualities or feelings. [From 1382]
- He is a chosen vessel unto me.
- 1975, Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
- I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant. [From 1398]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:vessel
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
vessel (third-person singular simple present vessels, present participle vesselling or (US) vesseling, simple past and past participle vesselled or (US) vesseled)
- (transitive) To put into a vessel.
- 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,”[2]
- Our hony al?o is taken and reputed to be the be?t bycau?e it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer ve??elled vp, th? that which cõmeth from beyond the ?ea, where they ?tampe and ?traine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ?tuffe, as I haue béene informed.
- 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137,[3]
- The fourth Rule ?hall be, to marke what Herbs, ?ome Earths doe put fourth of them?elves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Ve??ell it; And in that to ?et the Seed you would change […]
- 1662, John Heydon, The Harmony of the World, London: Robert Horn, Epistle Dedicatory,[4]
- Man had at the fir?t, and ?o have all ?ouls before their entrance into the body, an explicite methodicall knowledge, but they are no ?ooner ve??el’d, but that liberty is lo?t, and nothing remains but a va?t confu?ed notion of the creature […]
- 2009, Reaper (TV series), 2nd season, episode known as The Home Stretch:
- [Samuel 'Sam' Oliver:] Alright (or: All right), so the Devil didn't say that the winner was the one who vesseled (or: vesselled) him, just the one who sends him back to hell.
- 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,”[2]
References
- “vessel” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
Anagrams
- -selves, selves
Middle English
Alternative forms
- vescel, vessell, fessell, vessall, vesel, vessayle, fessel, wessell, ffessell
Etymology
From Old French vaissel, vessel, from Latin v?scellum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?s?l/, /?v?s?l/
Noun
vessel (plural vessels or vessel)
- A container or vessel; a box for storage:
- A vessel; any open container used in the kitchen:
- (by extension) A decorative container; a vase used for adornment.
- (by extension) A piece of cookware; a container used for cooking.
- (by extension) Any sort of kitchen tool or utensil.
- A container used for the storage of medicines; a pharmaceutical container.
- Any object, especially a container, used in religious ceremonies or rituals.
- A large container or vat used for bulk storage.
- (alchemy) Alchemical equipment, ware, or tools.
- Traveling equipment; travel gear.
- A vessel; any open container used in the kitchen:
- In several anatomical senses:
- (figuratively) A human being or the body of a human being.
- Blood vessels; the tubes that blood travels in.
- Any sort of tube, duct or canal in the body (e.g. the intestines)
- (figuratively, rare) The heart (as the seat of feelings).
- A seafaring vessel; a boat or ship.
- (mainly Biblical) A machine, device, or method.
Derived terms
- vesselling
- vesselment
Descendants
- English: vessel
- Scots: veshel
References
- “vessel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.
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