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Synonyms for tube
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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. tubenoun

    Synonyms:
    pipe, hollow cylinder

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tubenoun

    Synonyms:
    pipe, valinch

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "tube":

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

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Tube":

    Frank Heiss, Heiss, Frank

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#4116tube
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#74938underpass

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.


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