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Intubate vs Tube - What's the difference?

intubate | tube |

Intubate is a derived term of tube.


As verbs the difference between intubate and tube

is that intubate is (medicine) to insert a tube into while tube is to make or use tubes.

As a noun tube is

anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

intubate

English

Verb

(intubat)
  • (medicine) To insert a tube into.
  • The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.
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  • tube

    English

    (wikipedia tube)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
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  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
  • An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.
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  • 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 .)
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  • *1995 , Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit
  • *:Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube .
  • *2002 , Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide'' [text repeated in ''Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]
  • *:Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's) in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies' or ‘tubes' ) or bottles (‘stubbies') of 375ml each.
  • *2004 , Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries
  • *:That Humphries should imply that, in the Foster's ads, Hogan's ocker appropriated McKenzie's discourse (specifically the idiom "crack an ice-cold tube ") reinforces my contention.
  • (lb) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
  • A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.
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  • Usage notes

    Use for beer can was popularised in UK by a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's lager, where Paul Hogan used a phrase "crack an ice-cold tube" previously associated with Barry Humphries' character Barry McKenzie. (For discussion of this see Paul Matthew St. Pierre's book cited above.)

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * buckytube * cathode ray tube * Fallopian tube * inner tube * intubate * knob-and-tube * nanotube * picture tube * test tube * tubal * tubing * tuboplasty * tubular * vacuum tube

    Verb

  • To make or use tubes
  • She tubes lipstick.
    They tubed down the Colorado River.

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

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