tube

tube is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
2. noun. A telescope.
3. noun. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
4. noun. The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
5. noun. A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
6. noun. A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
7. noun. A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
8. noun. One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
9. transitive verb. To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
10. noun. 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: metro, subway, underground

11. noun. conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

    Synonyms: tubing

12. noun. electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
13. noun. (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
14. noun. a hollow cylindrical shape

    Synonyms: pipe

15. verb. place or enclose in a tube
16. verb. ride or float on an inflated tube

    "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"

17. verb. convey in a tube

    "inside Paris, they used to tube mail"

18. verb. provide with a tube or insert a tube into

Synonyms

metro, subway, underground, tubing, pipe

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tube:

bute, tebu

Common word forms

tubed, tuber, tubes, tubing, tubeful, tubeless

Words from these letters

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