Definitions for tubes
tubes
tube
Spelling: [toob, tyoob]
IPA: /tub, tyub/
Tubes is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 60 anagrams from letters in tubes (bestu).
Definitions for tubes
noun
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a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
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a small, collapsible, cylinder of metal or plastic sealed at one end and having a capped opening at the other from which paint, toothpaste, or some other semifluid substance may be squeezed.
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Anatomy, Zoology. any hollow, cylindrical vessel or organ:
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Botany.
any hollow, elongated body or part.
the united lower portion of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.
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inner tube.
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Electronics. electron tube.
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Informal.
television.
a television set.
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mailing tube.
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the tubular tunnel in which an underground railroad runs.
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the railroad itself.
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Surfing Slang. the curled hollow formed on the underside of a cresting wave.
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British. subway (def 1).
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Australian Slang. a can of beer.
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Older Slang. a telescope.
Idioms
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down the tube / tubes, Informal. into a ruined, wasted, or abandoned state or condition.
verb (used with object)
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to furnish with a tube or tubes.
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to convey or enclose in a tube.
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to form into the shape of a tube; make tubular.
Origin of tubes
First recorded in 1590-1600, tube is from the Latin word tubus pipe
Examples for tubes
Having a tube jabbed into an open wound in your throat is clearly not pleasant.
There was a sneer on the monster as he pressed something on the tube.
IranWire: Why did you decide to respond to Iranian state television by publishing a video of you singing in a London tube station?
The Viceroy turned suddenly, stared at them, fingering his tube.
If ever I give up my music," he says, "you might see me on the tube one day with a hood over my head climbing into a ring.
"Good-morning," he said to the man who had instructed him concerning the tube.
There were only a Ruhmkorff coil and Crookes (vacuum) tube and the man himself.
Ned closed his hand on the tube of the bazooka and it was so much old drainpipe.
When the tube heats up, it creates steam that can be injected into the oil well.
Also, because a tube of lipstick stands in for the “i” in “science.”