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How to pronounce tube
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What does tube mean?
nounAnything 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.
“A tube of toothpaste.”
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.
“He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared.”
verbTo supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
“She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.”
To ride an inner tube.
“They tubed down the Colorado River.”
To intubate.
“The patient was tubed.”
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