Tube vs Trough - 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 long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
Any similarly shaped container.
# (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
(Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
(agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough
Tube is a related term of trough.
As verbs the difference between tube and trough
is that tube is while trough is to eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough.As a noun trough is
a long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.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
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* 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.
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* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----trough
English
(wikipedia trough)Noun
(en noun)- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
Verb
(en verb)- he troughed his way through 3 meat pies.
