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tube | intertube |

As a verb tube

is .

As an adjective intertube is

between or among tubes or nanotubes.

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

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    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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    intertube

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Between or among tubes or nanotubes.
  • * 2001 , Young-Gui Yoon and Steven G. Louie, “Electronic Structure and Quantum Conductance of Carbon Nanotubes”, in Giorgio Benedek et al. (editors), Nanostructured Carbon for Advanced Applications , Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7923-7042-0, page 242:
    • If the intertube interactions are negligibly small, the electronic band structure along any line in the Brillouin zone parallel to the rope axis would be exactly the same as that of an isolated tube.

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