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How to pronounce “tube”
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Pronunciation guide for tube
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tube with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Cervélo Cycles
on the front of the top tube um and so
- Definition summary
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce tube
Cervélo Cycles
on the front of the top tube um and so
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tube”
Meaning
- [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.
- (British, 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.)
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
- To ride an inner tube.
- (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate.
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