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: You know you get a tube of toothpaste... such a bloody con. You squeeze and squeeze and nothing more comes out? Well, take a pair of scissors and cut it about an inch and a half from the bottom and it's absolutely packed with stuff! I do that, then cut off the top bit, so I can stick that back on and it doesn't dry out!
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 brecciaA type of pasta, similar to macaroniDecorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting colorA 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: There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.