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▸ noun: An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
▸ noun: (British, 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.)
▸ noun: (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
▸ noun: (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
▸ noun: (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
▸ noun: (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
▸ noun: (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
▸ verb: (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
▸ verb: To ride an inner tube.
▸ verb: (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
▸ noun: (informal) The London Underground
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underground,
vacuum tube,
electron tube,
thermionic valve,
metro,
subway,
pipe,
thermionic tube,
thermionic vacuum tube,
tube-shaped structure,
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