Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“tubes” is a form of

tube

/tuːb/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tubes tubing tubed the Tube

  1. noun Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
  2. noun An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances. “A tube of toothpaste.”
  3. noun (UK, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) 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.) “I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.”
  4. noun (obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
  5. noun (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
  6. noun (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
  7. noun (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
  8. noun (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
  9. verb (transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. “She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.”
  10. verb (transitive) To ride an inner tube. “They tubed down the Colorado River.”
  11. verb (medicine, transitive, colloquial) To intubate. “The patient was tubed.”
  12. proper noun (informal) The London Underground.

Synonyms

boob tube telly tubing vacuum tube thermionic vacuum tube thermionic tube electron tube thermionic valve pipe tube-shaped structure metro underground subway system subway

Etymology

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.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
  2. noun A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." Milton.
  3. verb To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Etymology [L.tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tube”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tube” (best matches first).

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