Tube I Liquid Noun Tjuːb Tuːb Fed Feeding

• he had to be fed through a feeding tube for several months.
• she poured the liquid down the tube.
• the cardboard tube from the centre of a toilet roll
• i put the poster back into its tube.

tube

1. a long, hollow pipe made of metal, plastic, rubber, etc., through which liquids or gases move from one place to another
• SEE ALSO cathode ray tube
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cathode-ray-tube
• He had to be fed through a feeding tube for several months.
• She poured the liquid down the tube.
2. a hollow object in the shape of a pipe or tube
• SEE ALSO inner tube
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/inner-tube
• the cardboard tube from the centre of a toilet roll
• I put the poster back into its tube.
3. a long, narrow container made of soft metal or plastic, with a lid (= cover), used for holding thick liquids that can be forced out of it by pressing
• a tube of toothpaste
• a tube of glue
4. a can of beer
• a tube of lager
5. a part inside the body that is like a tube in shape and through which air, liquid, etc. passes
• SEE ALSO fallopian tube
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fallopian-tube
• bronchial tubes
• The oesophagus is the tube leading from the throat to the stomach.
6. the underground railway system in London
• I often travel on the tube
• We came by tube.
• a tube station/train
• She caught the wrong tube (= tube train).

Extra Examples

• I bumped into him on the tube.
• I had to cram myself into a packed tube carriage.
• my tube journey to work
7. the television
8. a small tube placed in a child’s ear in order to drain liquid from it when there is an infection
9. to fail
• The education system is going down the tubes.

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent.: from French tube or Latin tubus.