Synonyms for tube
tub, tyubtube

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. tube, tubingnoun

   conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

   Synonyms:
   subway system, electron tube, underground, subway, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, metro, thermionic tube, thermionic valve

2. tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valvenoun

   electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

   Synonyms:
   subway system, electron tube, underground, subway, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, metro, thermionic tube, thermionic valve

3. pipe, tubenoun

   a hollow cylindrical shape

   Synonyms:
   underground, pipework, subway, organ pipe, tube-shaped structure, thermionic valve, pipe, thermionic vacuum tube, piping, subway system, thermionic tube, vacuum tube, tubing, metro, tobacco pipe, pipage, electron tube

4. tube, tube-shaped structurenoun

   (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

   Synonyms:
   subway system, electron tube, underground, subway, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, metro, thermionic tube, thermionic valve

5. metro, tube, underground, subway system, subwayverb

   an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)

   "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"

   Synonyms:
   resistance, metro, electron tube, underground, subway, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, thermionic valve, underpass, subway system, thermionic tube

6. tubeverb

   provide with a tube or insert a tube into

7. tubeverb

   convey in a tube

   "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"

8. tubeverb

   ride or float on an inflated tube

   "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"

9. tubeverb

   place or enclose in a tube

Matched Categories

1. • Conduit
   • Convey
   • Electronic Device
   • Enclose
   • Provide
   • Ride

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. tubenoun

   Synonyms:
   pipe, hollow cylinder

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tubenoun

   Synonyms:
   pipe, valinch

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "tube":

   pipe, tubing, tubes, crt, pipeline, hose, floater, pipes, socket, microtube, line, subway

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1. List of known nicknames for "Tube":

   Frank Heiss, Heiss, Frank

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1. Macaulay Culkin:

   The way he gets out of prison is to crawl through a tube of s ** t, you know ? It feels like to get to that kind of freedom, I'd have to crawl through a tube of s ** t, and you know what ? I've built a really nice prison for Macaulay Culkin. It's soft. It's sweet. It smells nice. You know ? It's plush.

2. Patrick Cullinan:

   Partial DNRs( Do Not Resuscitate orders) are helpful in allowing families to feel empowered and have some input, those staunchly ‘ all ’ or ‘ nothing ’ don’t understand subtleties in providing the most compassionate and appropriate care. By placing an unwanted tube, you steal their last opportunity to talk to their family, to tell them ‘ I love you. ’.

3. Thomas Herzfeld:

   Geography plays a large part in it; certainly agricultural states in the Midwest are all for it, i just think the toothpaste has come out of the tube.

4. Esperanza Huayama:

   I and other women never felt the same again. We're still suffering, i was depressed for months after the tube-tying operation. Some women felt that if their bodies are dry, infertile, then the land is too.

5. Ryan Zeigler:

   This will be the permanent record of what the material inside the core looks like before it got pushed out and divided into half-centimeter increments, the drive tube was very full, which is one of the things we learned with the CT scans, and it caused a slight complication in how we were initially planning to extrude it, but we have been able to adapt using these scans.