Tube vs. Canister

Tube and Canister Definitions
Tube
A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.
Canister
A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.
Tube
An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct
A bronchial tube.
Canister
A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.
Tube
A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.
Canister
A metal container that holds pressurized gas, as one containing tear gas that explodes on impact or one containing oxygen as part of a breathing apparatus.
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Tube
(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.
Canister
A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.
Tube
An electron tube.
Canister
Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.
Tube
A vacuum tube.
Canister
The part of a gas mask that contains the filter for removing toxic agents from the air.
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Tube
(Botany) The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.
Canister
A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
Tube
A tunnel.
Canister
Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
Tube
An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.
Canister
A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.
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Tube
The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.
Canister
A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.
Tube
An inner tube.
Canister
A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.
Tube
An inflatable tube or cushion made of rubber or plastic and used for recreational riding, as behind a motor boat or down a snow-covered slope.
Canister
Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.
Tube
Television
What's on the tube?.
Canister
(transitive) To pack into a canister.
Tube
A television set.
Canister
A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
Tube
Tubes(Informal) The fallopian tubes.
Canister
A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
Tube
To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.
Canister
A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; - called also canister shot.
Tube
To place in or enclose in a tube.
Canister
A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm
Tube
To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.
Canister
Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
Tube
Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
Tube
An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
A tube of toothpaste.
Tube
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.
Tube
(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.
Tube
A tin can containing beer.
Tube
(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
Tube
A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
Tube
An idiot.
Tube
(transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.
She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.
Tube
To ride an inner tube.
They tubed down the Colorado River.
Tube
To intubate.
The patient was tubed.
Tube
A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
Tube
A telescope.
Tube
A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
Tube
The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
Tube
A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
Tube
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.
Tube
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.
Tube
A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.
Tube
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
Tube
Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
Tube
Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
Tube
A hollow cylindrical shape
Tube
(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
Tube
Electric underground railway
Tube
Provide with a tube or insert a tube into
Tube
Convey in a tube;
Inside Paris, they used to tube mail
Tube
Ride or float on an inflated tube;
We tubed down the river on a hot summer day
Tube
Place or enclose in a tube