tube /tūb/

1. A pipe
2. Any long hollow body
3. A telescope or other optical instrument (also optic tube; archaic)
4. A collapsible cylinder from which material in the form of paste or viscous liquid can be squeezed out
5. A thermionic valve (N American)
6. An underground railway running through tube-shaped tunnels, specif (with cap; with the) the London Underground (informal)
7. The united part of calyx, corolla, etc (botany)
8. Any vessel in a plant or animal body
9. An aircraft (slang)
10. A television set (slang)
11. A can or bottle of beer (Aust sl)
12. An extremely stupid person (slang)

1. To provide with, fit with or enclose in a tube
2. To insert a tube in the neck of (a horse) to help breathing

To travel by tube

tubˈage noun

Insertion of a tube

tubˈal, tubˈar or tubˈate adjective

Tubular

tubecˈtomy noun (medicine)

Surgical cutting or removal of the Fallopian tubes

tubed /tūbd/ adjective

tubeˈful noun (pl tubeˈfuls)

tubeˈless adjective

tubeˈlike adjective

tubˈer noun

A participant in the sport of tubing (see below)

tubicˈolar or tubicˈolous adjective

Inhabiting a tube

tubˈicole noun

A tubicolous animal or plant (also adjective)

tubifloˈrous adjective

Having tubular flowers

tubˈiform adjective

Shaped like a tube

tubˈing noun

1. The act of making or supplying tubes
2. The activity of travelling through water or snow in an inflated inner tube
3. Tubes collectively
4. Material for tubes

tubˈoplasty noun (medicine)

Surgical repair of a Fallopian tube

tubˈūlar adjective

1. Having the form of a tube
2. Made of or with tubes
3. Having a sound like that made by the passage of air through a tube

Tubūlāˈria noun

A genus of Hydrozoa

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• nebbed
• nebbich
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• nebbing
• Nebbiolo
• Nebbiolos
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• nebbishe
• nebbisher
• nebbishes
• nebbuk
• nebeck
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• nebel
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• nebish
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• Nebr.
• nebris
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• nebuchadnezzar
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