English Dictionary

tube

IPA（発音記号）

/tjuːb/

名詞

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Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. / An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

日本語の意味

中空で円筒状の物体 / 半液体の物質を保持および分配するための、クリンプ加工された端とねじ蓋を備えた円筒形の容器

The scientist inserted the glass tube into the apparatus to collect the samples.

科学者は試料を集めるためにガラス管を装置に差し込んだ。

意味（1）

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

意味（2）

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

A tube of toothpaste.

意味（3）

(Britain, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) 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.)

意味（4）

(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.

And thus it came about that on that October morning I found myself in the deep level tube with the Professor speeding to the North of London in what proved to be one of the most singular experiences of my remarkable life.

意味（5）

(Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.

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

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

(Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation; this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers; this tube is the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, […]

意味（8）

(Scotland, slang) An idiot.

'Don't be a bloody tube, Jack,' she told me. (I always loved it when she used Scottish terms of abuse in that English accent of hers.)

tubes （ plural ）