tube: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with T · ends with E
Meaning of tube
noun
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.
Example: A tube of toothpaste.
- UK, capitalized, colloquial, often
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.)
Example: I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.
- Australia, slang
A tin can containing beer.
Listed forms: tubes.
Source: Wiktionary — tube.
verb
- transitive
To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
Example: She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
- transitive
To ride an inner tube.
Example: They tubed down the Colorado River.
- colloquial, transitive
To intubate.
Example: The patient was tubed.
Listed forms: tubes, tubing, tubed.
Source: Wiktionary — tube.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for tube.
noun
conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
noun
electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- vacuum tube
- thermionic vacuum tube
- thermionic tube
- electron tube
- thermionic valve
noun
a hollow cylindrical shape
noun
(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
- tube-shaped structure
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is tube in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of tube
T(1) + U(1) + B(3) + E(1) = 6 points.
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Anagrams of tube
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from tube
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