Travel / A2

TYOOB/tjuːb/

A tube is a long hollow pipe; also the London Underground: a tube of toothpaste, the Tube, Tube map. Pipe is a cousin for water or gas. Underground and metro are travel cousins. Tune is music. Do not write tube when you mean tune, or cube.

Meaning

A long hollow pipe; also the London Underground railway.

Examples

• “Take the Tube to the museum — it is two stops.”
• “Buy a tube of sun cream at the chemist before the beach.”
• “Take the Tube to Leicester Square — it is quicker than the bus.”

Good to know

a tube of / the Tube (London). Travel cousins: underground, metro. Mix-up: tune, cube.

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