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# tube

«tube» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, hollow pipe, often round, that liquid or air can…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tube, tubes); "the Tube" — the London Underground

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long, hollow pipe, often round, that liquid or air can go through, like a tube in an experiment or a breathing tube. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#m1)

2) A soft container you squeeze, like a tube of toothpaste or glue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#m2)

3) The Tube is the underground railway in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#m3)

4) Informal, mostly American and Australian: the TV ("on the tube"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#m4)

5) A swim ring or rubber ring you float on is sometimes called a tube. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, test tubes hold small amounts of liquids in experiments, and the body has tubes like the windpipe (trachea) and food pipe; plants have tiny tubes that carry water. In everyday life we squeeze toothpaste from a tube and travel on the Tube in London. In art, paint comes in tubes. Phrases: "test tube", "a tube of toothpaste", "inner tube" (inside a bike tyre), "take the Tube", "cardboard tube".

### examples

- Squeeze a small blob from the tube of toothpaste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x1)
- The scientist poured the liquid into a test tube. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x2)
- We took the Tube to the museum in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x3)
- The bike tyre has an inner tube full of air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x4)
- Make a telescope from a cardboard tube. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x5)
- Water travels up tiny tubes inside the plant stem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x6)
- The paint tube was almost empty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x7)
- Air goes down a tube called the windpipe to your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x8)
- He accordingly contrived to steal some sparks from the chariot of the sun, which he conveyed to earth hidden in a hollow tube. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/#x9)

### note

Countable: one tube, two tubes. "The Tube" with a capital T means the London Underground; New Yorkers say "the subway". A cylinder in maths is the solid shape; a tube is usually hollow. Squeeze tubes from the bottom so nothing is wasted.

### In the corpora

- [Since 1958 LEGO bricks have used the same stud-and-tube fit, so very old bricks still click onto new ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/7/)
- [Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/6/)
- [Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/7/)
- [Many deep fish have big eyes to catch faint light from glowing animals, and some have tube-shaped eyes that look upward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/12/)
- [In hospitals, sealed plastic syringes, gloves and tubes keep medicine and tools free of germs and are used only once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tube» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tube/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.