tube

noun

ˈtüb How to pronounce tube (audio)
Definition of tubenext
1
as in pipe
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas) watched the liquid move through the tube between the flasks and recorded the movement in his chemistry notebook

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2
as in TV
an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound we plan to relax and spend some time in front of the tube tonight

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Recent Examples of tube Best mini soccer nets This set comes with two nets that can fold down into a small tube, a soccer ball and a manual air pump. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026 Ducking into Maryam Lashkari, Hodjat Salimi and Oscar Tuazon’s interactive sculpture — an enormous cardboard tube lying on its side — feels like entering a culvert or a bomb shelter. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 The report also called on Transport for London, which operates the city’s underground train network, to add air conditioning to new tube trains and look for new ways to keep carriages and platforms cool. — Olivia Rudgard, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 About half of the room is taken up by a rack of tubes used for testing sorbents, and the other half by the DAC machine, nicknamed Phoenix. — Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tube
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tube
  1. pipe
  2. TV
  3. conduit
  4. television
  5. channel
  6. funnel
Noun
  • Aguas de La Habana, the state utilities company in the capital, issues daily updates to clients on service interruptions caused by electricity cuts or burst pipes.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The project is expected to start sending water into city pipes as soon as early 2029.
    — Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of pipe
Noun
  • Nearly half a year before season 3 aired, Apple TV announced that Silo season 4 had already finished filming.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The board still has not confirmed what prompted the investigation, though the Observer’s news partner WSOC-TV reported the cause of the investigation is contracts with some of Hill’s former colleagues.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of TV
Noun
  • Otherwise, after decades of exclusion, Syria could return to the regional map merely as a fragile conduit for others’ commercial exploits.
    — Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Vessels have continued to endure more attacks for sailing through the conduit, which before the war in Iran harbored as much as 20 percent of the world’s oil supply.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of conduit
Noun
  • After a four-year absence from British television following a horror crash involving former host Andrew Flintoff, the BBC said that work is underway on a new season.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Baobab retains film, television, streaming and gaming rights to the property.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of television
Noun
  • The island, just over 2 miles long, was created in the late 1960s from sand dredged during the deepening of the Elbe shipping channel that serves the port of Hamburg, then left to itself and gradually planted over.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Another transition, as if someone had switched channels to a prestige family drama (kudos to the many hats cinematographer Zach Kuperstein wears), takes us to a regular modern-day suburban street.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of channel
Noun
  • This one below is waterproof and has a funnel-neck design that's on trend right now.
    — Jenifer Calle, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The funnel of foreign athletes to American colleges, which had experienced steady growth for years, is beginning to show its limits.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of funnel

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“Tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tube. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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