Difference between Pipe and Tube

What is the difference between Pipe and Tube?

Pipe as a verb is to convey or transport something by means of pipes. while Tube as a verb is to make or use tubes

Pipe

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To convey or transport something by means of pipes. In Unix, to directly feed the output of one program as input to another program by use of the pipe character. To install or configure pipes. To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe. To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe. To decorate a cake using a pastry bag a flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe. A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia A type of pasta, similar to macaroni Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe. A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe) One of the goalposts of the goal. The ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): " " A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a ton. An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

Example sentence: We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

Tube

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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 semi-liquid 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.)A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?)A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make or use tubes

Example sentence: Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.

We hope you now know whether to use Pipe or Tube in your sentence.

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