Tube

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “A tube of toothpaste.”

3. isim 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.)

   “I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.”

4. isim 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.”

5. isim A tin can containing beer.

   “It's alright to cop a warm tube of Fosters and a cold pie 'n' peas when you're dated by one of the locals[.]”

6. isim A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

   “It seemed like Butch was invincible, like he could do nothing wrong, coming through one unbelievable tube after another.”

7. isim A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

   “I sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on. I change the channels for an hour or two.”

8. isim 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.)”

9. isim Short for speaking tube.
10. fiil To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

    “She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.”

11. fiil To ride an inner tube.

    “They tubed down the Colorado River.”

12. fiil To intubate.

    “The patient was tubed.”

13. özel isim The London Underground.

    “Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous).”