Tube vs. Canister

A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.

A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.

An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct

A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.

A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.

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.

(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.

A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.

An electron tube.

Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.

A vacuum tube.

The part of a gas mask that contains the filter for removing toxic agents from the air.

(Botany) The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.

A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).

A tunnel.

Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.

An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.

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.

The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.

A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.

An inner tube.

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.

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.

Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.

Television

(transitive) To pack into a canister.

A television set.

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

Tubes(Informal) The fallopian tubes.

A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.

To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.

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.

To place in or enclose in a tube.

A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm

To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.

Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

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.)

(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.

A tin can containing beer.

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

An idiot.

(transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

To ride an inner tube.

To intubate.

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

A telescope.

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

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.

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.

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

A hollow cylindrical shape

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

Electric underground railway

Provide with a tube or insert a tube into

Convey in a tube;

Ride or float on an inflated tube;

Place or enclose in a tube