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noun / verb

tube

TOOB/tuːb/

A hollow elongated cylindrical passage or container.

Water flows through the long transparent tube into the bowl.

Close still life of a long hollow transparent tube with open circular end clearly visible, a little water flows through it into a bowl, no text.
Etymology
tubeLatintube, pipe

Latin tubus meant a pipe, preserving the image of a hollow passage. English first used the word for bodily passages, then for hollow cylinders, especially those carrying liquids; its deeper ancestry is unknown.

In context

Plainly Difficult198:13
samples could be transferred into and out of the accelerator room remote if desired through a hollow plastic tube that leads from the accelerator room to a Counting Room
ReWind: Year 5 Omnibus of Plainly Difficult

More examples

  • She squeezes the last toothpaste from the tube.
  • The bronchial tubes carry air into the lungs.
  • He stores the rolled poster in a cardboard tube.

Forms

tube · tubes · tubed · tubing

tubular adjective — Having the shape of a hollow cylinder.

tubing noun — Hollow tubes used to carry liquids or gases.

Similar words

pipe
Usually a rigid tube that carries liquids or gases.
hose
A flexible tube used to direct liquids or air.
conduit
A passage that carries fluids or protects electrical wires.