Tube

the Tube

1. (informal) The London Underground.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page unnumbered: A note on the title:

     But 'Tube' is used as shorthand for the whole network, not least by London Underground itself, [...] It tends to be older people who hold on to the distinction. A friend of mine was visiting his mother who lives about 500 yards from Parsons Green station on the District, which is a cut-and-cover line [not a tube line]. At the end of the evening she said, "How are you getting back?" He said, "Oh, on the Tube", and she looked at him absolutely blankly. "What Tube?" she said, "There is no Tube here."

   • 2014 March 26, Richard Goodwin, “Candy Crush is the crystal meth of the commute”, in Evening Standard, page 17:

     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).

• tube train

• bute, Bute, Tebu

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːbə/

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Later 19th century, borrowed from English tube. Doublet of Tubus. The pronunciation follows the underlying Latin tubus, tuba; compare etymology 2 below.

Tube f (genitive Tube, plural Tuben, diminutive Tübchen n)

1. tube (container for semiliquids, usually with a screw top)

• Farbtube
• Senftube
• Zahnpastatube

See the main entry.

Tube f (genitive Tube, plural Tuben)

1. (medicine) alternative form of Tuba (“a tubular organ, such as the Fallopian tube”)

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