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tube | bath |

As verbs the difference between tube and bath

is that tube is while bath is (label) drown.

tube

English

(wikipedia tube)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
  • *
  • *: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)

    Anagrams

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    bath

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  • A building or area where bathing occurs.
  • * Gwilt
    • Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
  • The act of bathing.
  • A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
    • a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
    • , author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper , passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
    Usage notes
    Sense 3. is usually to take''' ''(US)'' or '''have ''(UK, Aus)'' a bath. See also
    Derived terms
    * * * * * (US)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wash a person or animal in a bath
  • * {{quote-book, year=1990
    • , author=Mukti Jain Campion , title=The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability. citation , isbn=0415048591 , page=41 , passage=Somewhere to bath''' the baby'': don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to '''bath''' the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, ' bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
    • , author=Sue Dallas, Diana North and Joanne Angus , title=Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat citation , isbn=1405111836 , page=91 , passage=For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007
    • , author=Robin Barker , title=Baby Love citation , isbn=17770075445 , page=179 , passage=If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week. }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biblical) An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
  • * 1611, ,
    • Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath'. The ephah and the '''bath''' shall be of one measure, that the ' bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

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