Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape. · An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. · 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.) · One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. · To ride an inner tube. · To intubate.
From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”), related to tuba (“long trumpet; war-trumpet”), of obscure ultimate origin, but possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there. Doublet of tubus.
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