Piping vs Tube - What's the difference?
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The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
The sound of musical pipes.
An act of making music or noise with pipes.
A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
Piped icing on a cake.
(botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
(botany) propagation by cuttings
High-pitched.
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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To make or use tubes
As verbs the difference between piping and tube
is that piping is while tube is .As a noun piping
is the process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.As an adjective piping
is high-pitched.piping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- the piping of a house
Adjective
(-)- His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.
Derived terms
* piping hotSee also
*tube
English
(wikipedia tube)Noun
(en noun)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 alsoDerived terms
* buckytube * cathode ray tube * Fallopian tube * inner tube * intubate * knob-and-tube * nanotube * picture tube * test tube * tubal * tubing * tuboplasty * tubular * vacuum tubeVerb
- She tubes lipstick.
- They tubed down the Colorado River.