tube
- IPA[tjuːb]
英式
- a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases；the inner tube of a bicycle tyre.
- fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.；convey in a tube
verb: tube, 3rd person present: tubes, gerund or present participle: tubing, past tense: tubed, past participle: tubed
noun: tube, plural noun: tubes
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名詞
- 1. a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases a plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled
- ▪ the inner tube of a bicycle tyre.
- ▪ material in a tubular form; tubing the firm manufactures steel tube for a wide variety of applications
- 2. a thing in the form of or resembling a tube.
- ▪ a flexible metal or plastic container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for holding a semi-liquid substance ready for use a tube of toothpaste
- ▪ a rigid cylindrical container a tube of Smarties
- ▪ Australian informal a can of beer a tube of lager
- ▪ a hollow cylindrical organ or structure in an animal body or in a plant (e.g. a Eustachian tube, a sieve tube).
- ▪ informal a woman's fallopian tubes women with blocked tubes
- ▪ a woman's close-fitting garment, typically without darts or other tailoring and made from a single piece of stretch fabric a tube skirt
- ▪ (in surfing) the hollow curve under the crest of a breaking wave he angled his board to get in the tube
- 3. trademark in UK the underground railway system in London a cross-London trek on the Tube a Tube train
- ▪ a train running on the London underground system I caught the Tube home
- 4. a sealed container, typically of glass and either evacuated or filled with gas, containing two electrodes between which an electric current can be made to flow.
- ▪ a cathode ray tube, especially in a television set colour tubes for portables
- ▪ North American informal television watching the tube in a country bar
- ▪ North American a thermionic valve.
動詞
- 1. informal fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.
- 2. convey in a tube the wells were flooded, and this water, tubed off, yielded a supply of 38,000 gallons per hour
- 3. British informal travel on the underground railway system in London I tubed to St Pancras we tubed it back to Queensway
- 4. ride on water on a large inflated inner tube we tubed down creeks, slid down water cascades, and fished in canyons
- a separate inflatable tube inside a pneumatic tire.
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- a woman's tight-fitting strapless top made of stretchy material.
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- a separate inflatable tube inside a pneumatic tyre.
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- a thin glass tube closed at one end, used to hold small amounts of material for laboratory ...
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- a marine bristle worm, especially a fan worm, which lives in a tube made from sand particles or ...
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- a thin glass tube closed at one end, used to hold small amounts of material for laboratory ...
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- an open-ended right-angled tube pointing into the flow of a fluid and used to measure pressure.
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- an open-ended right-angled tube pointing in opposition to the flow of a fluid and used to ...
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- IPA[to͞ob]
美式
- a long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, ... a plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled
- fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.
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