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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Subway \Sub"way`\, n. 1. An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted. [1913 Webster] 2. An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by electricity provided by an electric line running through the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the center portion of cities; -- called also {tube}, and in Britain, {underground}. In certain other countries (as in France or Russia) it is called the {metro}. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tube \Tube\, n. [L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.] 1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. [1913 Webster] 2. A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. [1913 Webster] 4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. [1913 Webster] 5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under {Priming}, and {Friction}. [1913 Webster] 6. (Steam Boilers) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. [1913 Webster] 7. (Zool.) (a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of {Tubeworm}. (b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. [1913 Webster] 8. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. [Chiefly Eng.] Note: In the New York area, the subways running under the Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] {Capillary tube}, a tube of very fine bore. See {Capillary}. {Fire tube} (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue. {Tube coral}. (Zool.) Same as {Tubipore}. {Tube foot} (Zool.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm. {Tube plate}, or {Tube sheet} (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under {Flue}. {Tube pouch} (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes. {Tube spinner} (Zool.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to {Tegenaria}, {Agelena}, and allied genera. {Water tube} (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tube \Tube\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tubed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tubing}.] To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: tube n 1: conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases [syn: {tube}, {tubing}] 2: electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope [syn: {tube}, {vacuum tube}, {thermionic vacuum tube}, {thermionic tube}, {electron tube}, {thermionic valve}] 3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn: {pipe}, {tube}] 4: (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure [syn: {tube}, {tube-shaped structure}] 5: an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'" [syn: {metro}, {tube}, {underground}, {subway system}, {subway}] v 1: provide with a tube or insert a tube into 2: convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" 3: ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day" 4: place or enclose in a tube From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: tube 1. n. A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Looney Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, Babylon 5, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie. 2. [IBM] To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. ?Tube me that note?? From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: tube /tyb/ barrel; channel; pipe; tube