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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

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