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

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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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How to use tube in a sentence?

1. David Burkard:

   The hard thing is having to be the person that talks to the patient with Covid, who says,' You know what ? It's time to call your wife. We are going to have to put a breathing tube down and it's time for you to say goodbye,'.

2. Marlene McHugh:

   Will I require a feeding tube, oxygen, dialysis ? appoint someone to be your voice, to make decisions on your behalf.

3. Gore Vidal:

   The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

4. Vernon Unsworth:

   My insult was to the tube and not to Mr. Musk personally, i'm not sure how I need to apologize. It was my opinion at the time and I stand by that opinion.

5. Cameron Rout:

   For me, it wasn’t the tube slides and climbing walls and the fact that they reimbursed your Wi-Fi, it really was for me, about the people and I cared about the mission and the sense that it was very creative and freewheeling.