Synonyms for tube
tub, tyubtube

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Conduit
   • Convey
   • Electronic Device
   • Enclose
   • Provide
   • Ride

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. tubenoun

   Synonyms:
   pipe, hollow cylinder

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tubenoun

   Synonyms:
   pipe, valinch

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "tube":

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

NicknamesRate these nicknames:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of known nicknames for "Tube":

   Frank Heiss, Heiss, Frank

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How to use tube in a sentence?

1. Nora Saenz:

   [The San Diego doctors] mentioned the tube that they put the ventilation in wasn’t even installed properly, so we have no idea how long my aunt went without oxygen to the brain.

2. 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,'.

3. Joel Batzofin:

   There are women that produce mucus of a thick viscus quality, and it sticks and lodges in there. The fallopian tube at the uterine end is very narrow and it gets blocked in there, so it’s quite easy to imagine that a course of physical therapy is going to soften this up, dislodge it and clear Clear Passage.

4. David Eggleston:

   We are finding amazing biological communities around the seeps, ranging from giant mussels that can be 100 to 200 years old or older, to giant tube worms that can be hundreds of years old as well, to a very strange-looking creature called a Chimeara, which is a distant cousin of sharks and rays.

5. Lue Elizondo:

   The level of interest is reaching a critical mass, i think [government officials realize that] it would be like putting the cat back in the bag or like putting toothpaste back in the tube. Now that the government has acknowledged the reality of unexplained aerial phenomenon … it’s going to be real hard to backtrack.