Definizione monolingua

tube

tube (third-person singular simple present tubes, present participle tubing, simple past and past participle tubed)

1. To make or use tubes

   She tubes lipstick.

   They tubed down the Colorado River.

tube (plural tubes)

1. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
2. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.

   A tube of toothpaste.

3. (UK, colloquial) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

   No mate, I am taking the tube!

4. (Australian, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?)
   • 1995, Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit

     Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube.

   • 2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina OBrien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide [text repeated in Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]

     Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-os) in cases (or slabs) of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies or ‘tubes) or bottles (‘stubbies) of 375 ml each.

   • 2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Portrait of the Artist as Australian: LOeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries

     That Humphries should imply that, in the Fosters ads, Hogans ocker appropriated McKenzies discourse (specifically the idiom ""crack an ice-cold tube"") reinforces my contention.

5. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
6. (North America, colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly

   Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?

Definizione dizionario tube

	tubo
	cylindrical container
	a pipe
	Conduit consisting of a long hollow object.

	metropolitana
	the London underground

condotto

	tubetto
	cylindrical container

metrò

	Londra
	the London underground

	lattina
	a tin can

barattolo

camera d'aria

canale

cannello

il metro di Londra

tuba

tube

valvola

Altri significati:

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.

(North America, colloquial) A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

To make or use tubes

(Australian, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?)

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

(UK, colloquial) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often '''the tube''' .)