Tube vs Sewer - What's the difference?
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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
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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, title= A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
One who sews.
A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.
Tube is a related term of sewer.
As a verb tube
is .As a noun sewer is
a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage or sewer can be a servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc or sewer can be one who sews.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.
See also
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----sewer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia sewer) (en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asseour, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer , holding his white rod of office.
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana